A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

TVRR at Honey Grove

[Rufus T. Firefly]

TVRR at Leonard's Grove

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Found I hade 1 more of the Grand View

[Mitch]

Like this picture a lot, which is most likely '59 or early '60s. The blue car, 3rd from the right is either a '57-'59 Chrysler or Desoto, a few more to the left the blue and white '55-56 Chevy, looks like a '58-'59 Olds station wagon just to the right of the Chevy, and what looks like a '58 Chevy parked crosswise in front of the door where it looks like someone is getting into the car. '57-'59 Ford right at the very front of the pic. All that fine lookin' iron from back in the day!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Something for everyone in those photo cards of the Grand View -- 30's, 50's....probably can find some in the gap and on each end to fill the total range it existed.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Speaking of remarkable pictures...Rufus, looking at your latest avatar, who does your nails , so nicely?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Speaking of remarkable pictures...Rufus, looking at your latest avatar, who does your nails , so nicely?

Same place you go for your pedicure,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

="Mitch"....

Like this picture a lot, which is most likely '59 or early '60s. The blue car, 3rd from the right is either a '57-'59 Chrysler or Desoto, a few more to the left the blue and white '55-56 Chevy, looks like a '58-'59 Olds station wagon just to the right of the Chevy, and what looks like a '58 Chevy parked crosswise in front of the door where it looks like someone is getting into the car. '57-'59 Ford right at the very front of the pic. All that fine lookin' iron from back in the day!

I'm glad you drew our attention to that line of cars. I had glossed over them.
IMO, that is a Chrysler, due to the taillight inset being one long piece, not the three vertical round tube-things of Desotos. Eh?
And I think that '58 Chevy is probably a Biscayne or BelAir, rather than an Impala, judging from what I can make out of the tail-lights, right?
Murph

[Mitch]

I don't know how you can see anything on the picture that well, Murph. Didja blow the pic up? I don't know how to do that, but from what I see upon further study is that it may be a Chrysler Windsor, due as you say to the tail lights. Desoto tail lights were mini-circular, (I think only two on the Fireflight and three on the Firedome), with reverse lamp at the bottom, and Chrysler tail lights were elongated, (fat at the bottom narrowing to the top in one piece). But then, OTOH, Desoto tail lights also had that little body hook out over the lamp assembly. Then there's the paint. Dodge and Desoto had a bit wider two-tone stripe down the side than the Chrysler 300, New Yorker, Saratoga, and the Windsor. I just can't see it well enough to determine, and I ain't gonna look them up on the net and tie up anymore of Rufus' thread , but the cars back then had way more class than the crap they turn out today. IMHO!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I ain't gonna look them up on the net and tie up anymore of Rufus' thread

I'm not minding,

but the cars back then had way more class than the crap they turn out today. IMHO!

By and large, I agree. They all seem to have blended together and there's no identity to the vast majority of cars that the average person might buy - sadly, been that way for a long time now.

[rex desilets]

Read somewhere that the Feral Gov't push for higher CAFE standards pushed automakers to use wind tunnel data more and more to reduce aerodynamic drag. The result is most new cars are egg-shaped. *snore* Now, the interesting cars are all really high-end.

[rogruth]

I agree.
Back not that long ago you could tell with a glance which company made a car. Within each company every one had differences.
Didn't like them all but they were distinctive. Todays are mostly blah, blah, blah.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Speaking of remarkable pictures...Rufus, looking at your latest avatar, who does your nails , so nicely?

Same place you go for your pedicure,

I thought the workmanship looked familiar.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Think what stated this was the early 80's and the push for econo box cars and K-cars - ended up with totally nondescript cars from every source and thengs have been going down hill ever since

[HONDO74]

57 Chrysler
https://www.google.com/search?q=57+chry ... Usyyi37nEM:

57 Desoto
https://www.google.com/search?q=57+deso ... KlFR6l7W9M:

59 Chrysler
https://www.google.com/search?q=1959+ch ... 16&bih=629

It looks to be a 59 Chrysler. Look at the back bumper.