Cool car pics (and a few others) at Cd'E of Southwest Michigan

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Last Saturday I was at a Concours d'Elegance in St. Joseph, MI and took in some very cool old cars (and a couple that are not quite so cool, but hey - they're part of automotive history nonetheless).  I have between 70 and 80 photos to post, so give me a bit to get them all loaded and captioned.

Dodge was the "Honored Marque" of the event, and they had at least one representative of each decade -- so I'll kick the thread off with those...

1915 Dodge Brothers Roadster

1925 Dodge Brothers "C" Cab Truck Panel Delivery Van

1934 Dodge DS 4-Door Convertible Sedan

1940 Dodge Luxury Liner DeLuxe 4-Door Sedan

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1957 Dodge Coronet Convertible (unrestored!)

1973 Dodge Monaco 4-Door Sedan (also unrestored, and complete with Citizens Band radio/antenna)

1984 Dodge Caravan...  they sold a lot of these, and it saved Chrysler Corp's corporate bacon

1988 Dodge Aries 4-door Sedan  (see above)  These last two are part of Chrysler's Historical Vehicle collection, so they're pretty mint examples.


That's most of the Dodge products I photo'd, although they had the '97 Copperhead Roaster and Sidewinder Truck Concept vehicles there too.  I didn't have my camera handy when they were on display out away from the Emcee's tent, so I didn't snap any photos of those.  Plus, they had a Viper and SRT-8 Magnum as well.

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In no particular order, I'll roll through the rest of the photos taken - and hopefully I won't get my notes mixed up.  Most of these were in absolutely mint shape, and those which weren't were time-capsule unrestored examples.

1949 DeSoto Custom Convertible

1947 Studebaker Champion 2-door Sedan

1941 Cadillac Series 6319 4-door Sedan

1941 Cadillac Series 60 Special Fleetwood 4-door Sedan

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1939 Rolls Royce Wraith Sports Saloon

1938 Cadillac V-16 2-door Convertible

1957 Chrysler 300C Convertible

1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-Door Hardtop

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1939 Chevrolet JD 3/4-Ton Stake Truck

1957 MGA Coupe (odd to see this marque with a hardtop)

1956 Studebaker Skyhawk 2-door Hardtop

1937 Cord 812 Phaeton

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1955 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible

1936 Ford Woody Wagon

1955 Ford Country Sedan Station Wagon

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1936 Auburn 852 SuperCharged Phaeton 

(same)

1934 Vauxhall BX Roadster

1931 Graham Special 6 Dual-cowl Phaeton

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Pretty nice 1970 Plymouth 340 'Cuda convertible

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1969 Chevrolet Camaro Pace Car Convertible

1966 Ford Mustang 2 + 2 Fastback

1967 Ford Shelby GT350 Fastback

1979 Bitter CD 4-passenger Touring Coupe (one of several vehicle brands I'd never heard of prior to the event)

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1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS Convertible

1965 Mercury Monterey Convertible

1967 Buick Riviera 2-door Hardtop

1963 Fiat 1500 GT Ghia Coupe

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1964 Chevrolet Biscayne 2-door 409 4-speed

Most of the cars didn't have their hoods open, so I took advantage and snapped several photos.  That last photo is the original, unopened glass washer fluid jug...     

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1963 Lincoln Continental 4-door Convertible

1963 Studebaker Avanti Coupe

1961 Jaguar XKE Roaster

1961 Imperial Crown 2-door Hardtop

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OK, I'm admittedly a complete novice when it comes to Packards, so I hope these have been identified correctly...

1933 Packard 1002 Eight Convertible Victoria

1933 Packard 1002 2-door Coupe

1936 Packard 1401 4-door Touring Sedan

1937 Packard 115C 3-window Coupe

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1937 Packard V-12 2-door Convertible Victoria  (all those Packards were impressive vehicles)

1976 AMC Pacer Coupe

1977 VW Beetle 2-door Sedan w/ Sunroof

1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V "Collector's Series", whatever that means...   

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One very sweet 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst 2-door Hardtop (a Creative Industries cousin of the Aero cars)

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1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu 2-Door Hardtop  (hey Davtona, this pic's just for you    )

1976 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible

1966 Corvette

1973 Corvette

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There were some very nice brass-era vehicles at the show as well.

1906 Cadillac Model M Touring  (oldest one at the show)

1911 Stoddard-Dayton Model F 7-passenger Touring

(same)

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1909 Franklin Model G Touring

(same)

1909 Chalmers-Detroit Touring

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1917 Hudson Limousine

1917 Shaw Special Racecar - this thing sounded pretty awesome when they fired it up, and they could hardly keep the engine running without giving it half-throttle...  it was ready for a speed trial for sure   

1917 Mercer 22-73 Runabout

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Last batch...

1925 Detroit Electric 95 Brougham  (hard to tell which end is which on this car, and it really is an electric vehicle)

1928 Chrysler Model 72 Royal Sedan

1927 Studebaker President Limousine

[Dino]

Awesome!  Thanks for posting.   

I wish I had known about this, I love the pre 60's cars more and more each time I look at them.  Unfortunately I'm losing interest with muscle cars more and more.   

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Nice pics 

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Thanks, it was a really eclectic group of autos.  A little something for everybody.  Even the Pacer got a lot of love that day