The Big Party Garage is legend. I wore my BPG Tshirt to the Steve McQueen car show and got stopped a couple times - Have you been there? How can I see it? were the questions.
The tools stay nice because you rarely needed to fix a Ford?........ (or anyone could keep them running with farmer fixes)
My grandmother with the family T - ad for my grandfathers shop knowing there was money to be made fixing Chevrolets,
The visit could have been last week and there would be changes..........
I think Don & Ann could do one of those spot the changes puzzles where you need to spot the changes in 2 different pix of the same area. Don's cars and tools may be easy but Ann's storefronts would take some real detail...
Maybe not the modern metallic color (it would also get lost in the bed being the same color) but something complementary - the interior color with the EL Camino color for pinstriping??
It's easy to see why the city fathers would want it. Corona has one of the richest racing heritages in SoCal. In 1913 the city got 100,000 spectators to come watch races around the Grand Blvd. circle that still exists. Fatalities ended those races. They opened a new one in 1971 but houses...
Yes it's a keeper - but in CT. I think the Big Party Garage needs this one every time I drive past it in La Verne. It's about the only vintage sign left around here.
The neon will really wake it up. I knew a guy with a Mobil sign and once he got the neon restored the sign really looked great. It's probably an art you'd need to go to Las Vegas to find anymore.
It should be the other way around. Shell was red & yellow while McD was still Speedee. BTW - they still have a 15 cent burger but, it costs 2 bucks..........
I had a blue 54 in college - 1968. Trans died and I swapped it for a 2 year old VW Bug. At that time you could still buy carb parts because they also used one on the turbo Corvair. That was a good thing because if it sneezed it blew the pump diaphragm.