The family heirloom, 1932 Auburn B-100A Brougham is back home once again in Auburn. In June 1977, an excited 6-year-old John Pontius left Auburn, Ind., with his father, Lee, and family friend, John Stoops, on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip to Buffalo, N.Y., to pick up a 1932 Auburn 8-100A that Lee had recently purchased. John recalls stopping along the interstate at what seemed like every 10 minutes for rest room breaks. The excitement of picking up an Auburn automobile and transporting it back to where it was built was too much for the 6 year old. Once the trio arrived in Buffalo, they made their way to the downtown industrial district and parked outside an old factory-style building. They were greeted by the seller who escorted them into the corner of a building where a mostly original and complete 1932 Auburn Brougham two-door sedan was tucked away. John recalls how creepy it felt walking into the large building and seeing the car sitting there all by itself. As a child, he says he felt a little fearful at first, but after seeing the excitement on his father's face, his fears disappeared. |
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'56 Chevy Delray remains almost entirely as Chevrolet built it. Many "Tri-Five" Chevy fans tend to lean toward the bookend model years—1955 and 1957—rather than the 1956 models. However, fans of the '56 remain adamant in their loyalty. Look at the numbers, they say. The numbers they're referring to are the sales numbers. Fewer Chevrolets were sold in 1956 than in 1955, but more were sold than in 1957. Chevrolet sold a lot of cars in those years. For 1955, more than 1.7 million left the factories, 1.63 million in 1956 and 1.56 million in '57. By their logic, 1956 should be the second-most-popular model year of the Tri-Five years. While it's quite possible that there are a few hundred thousand Tri-Fives left in the United States plus more overseas (Tri-Five Chevys were heavily exported to Australia and Europe in those days), very few fit in the same category as Terry Getz's low-mileage, unrestored '56 Two-Ten Delray. |
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Chevrolet's new-for-1947 "Advance-Design" trucks were the first commercial vehicles to be completely redesigned after World War II. The 1949 Chevy Canopy Express is the continuation of these trucks. Before my children became adults, my wife and I would take them to Wildwood, N.J., aka "Doo-Wop City" due to its mid-century motel names such as Bel Aire (Chevrolet) and Park Lane (Mercury). Ironically posed against those modern hotels' kidney-shaped pools, zigzag balconies and jutted roof angles were old hucksters that would park nearby to sell fruit from under the shade of their covered pickup boxes. Some of these 10- to 15-year-old trucks reminded me of the earlier huckster trucks, such as the featured 1949 Chevrolet canopy express truck owned by Patsy and Ivan Kachanoski from Fairmont Hot Springs in British Columbia, Canada. |
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