A couple of wagons in PG and Ont..

Yur welcome....my pleasure and happy that you enjoyed them.....I had a sixty Merc wagon four door hardtop but not having much luck finding a picture of it...It had the 383 motor in it......I sold it and a sixty Merc two door hardtop to some fella and not remeber just who it was...I think it went to McBride..B.C.

 

Dumb Yank question for you 'Nucks

PG = Prince George???

 

You got it right....just git so used to the short form....like Vanderhoof is called Hooterville and when you hear the right name you has to think fer a while..

 

I've ever been immersed in Canadian-isms like this before.

So, on the Edsel, why is the driver's side headlight blue? I've seen this once before, on the Fury Squad Car in "The California Kid" is there a reason for the one mis-colored light?

 

It was a common thing to have a rusty headlamp bucket and it would let dirt into the bucket and then when the dirt would get wet from a rain it would blow out the headlight and cause it to turn blue....you can also purchase yellow fog lights that are the same size as the headlamp and install them in the headlamp bucket...I think I remember seeing in the movie the different colored light now.. Will have to watch for it next time I watch the movie....If you enjoy old car movie's one I enjoy is called Moonshine Highway...I think it is the 1992 version...

 

I haven't seen that one, I'll have to watch for it.

 

While your holding a Canadian-ism session, you otta show our southern friends a picture of those headlight bubble protectors. I think only Alberta, BC and Saskabush drivers had them.

I haven't seen those since the 80's.

 

I just seen a set of them on a car recentley but I not remember which one..you could not make it through a winter here in PG without them...

with the plastic headlights now not see many...will look at the Princess Store... just why would they call the boy store Princess...

 

Ya had me good on that one Norm...Them was on the Edsel Wagon..

 

Son of a gun! You restored my faith in die-hard collecting!

For you warm-weather folks, they have lots of gravel roads in the North Country up here. When those logging trucks run down a road, the sh!t hits the fan, the headlights and the glass shops are always busy. And you can't slow down and back off, because they come right up behind ya and when they pass ya, you can't see diddly. So you carry about 6 gallons of Windshield washer fluid. Good thing its cheap. Those headlight protectors keep you legal, even though the headlights are useless behind one of those rigs.

Princess Auto's head office was on Princess Street here in the Peg, in the historic warehouse district. They moved out to Transcona (East side of the city) and have their main store and fabricating lines out there. I thought Acklands was big in BC. They used to carry them too, IIRC?

 

i'd kill for that Triumph wagon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanx for tormenting me Hugh !!

 

Yeah, that's the word - tormenting!!! The ideal car lover's setup! A few acres, a lot of great cars, a dog, and a warden!

 

May be this will appease the urge's a little...tis a Hillman convertable owned by the same fulla...these pictures are recent and car's are local...







He is looking for a right quarter window fer his convertable...53 Hillman

 

This is like Therapy for a car diet! You have to face your addictions, right? Keep 'em coming! Makes me feel like a whimp! Gets under -25C and I barely go out. Here you are just rollin' in the fields! I guess the ladies are right - all men are dogs, we like rollin' in the hay, the snow...