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The wife is also looking at him with an expression which says that she defenitely wants the coupe and not the wagon. It looks like it won't be a sizable family, if one at all, afterall.
It could also be a girlfriend who's trying to win him over. In which case, the wagon would mean family and family would mean much less time for her.
If she indeed is the wife, then she might have Cougaring on her mind which would be a rather suspicious activity to be performing from a station wagon.
Then again, her husband might be moonlighting in the entertainment industry as a Don Adams (alias Maxwell Smart) impersonator. Thus, calculating that having him seen driving around in a wagon would be bad for business

 

That’s actually Don Adams little brother Dan Adams. Can’t be the girlfriend. She’d be eyeing a 98 Convertible. His wife Julie and he were high school sweethearts. Dan recently got a promotion at his accounting firm, of course due to his brothers account. They are trading in the ‘61 Pontiac Star Chief. It was red as well

 

Well, it seems that Dan Adams isn't impersonating his twinish brother hard enough. Otherwise, he would be able to afford the Starfire

 

"Would you believe...?"

 

Oh well. It wasn't an Olds afterall. Still not a bad choice, though

 

This photo taken on April 8, 1949, appears to contain the owners of The Auto Mart L.B. Petrie and J.C. Weaver along with a couple of lot boys posing with a circa-1930's clunker laying on its side behind the young men. The sign reads “Death Valley Special – Don’t Let This Happen To You Buy A Car From The Auto Mart.”



Courtesy of The Old Motor.

 

So they got 2 ‘49’s on the lot that are the stars of the show. It even says they’re ‘49’s.

 

Grande Auto’s used car sales lot.

 

I’d take em all. Even that smoky Plymouth.

 

Yeah, Me too.

 

Prospect Motors was a Ford New Car Dealer at the time this image was taken by the Photographic Department of the Ford Motor Company. The date was April 25, 1941, and Prospect Motor’s used car lot was located somewhere along Coney Island Ave., the thoroughfare stretches about six miles long north and south in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City.




The oldest car offered for sale is a 1933 or ’34 Packard and the newest automobiles appear to be Fords dating to the late-193os. The last truck on the far left of the line is a new 1941 model, and it was common at the time for car dealers to sell their new trucks on the used car lot.
-Courtesy of The Old Motor.