What kind of car brought you home from the hospital, the first time?

[Barry Wolk]

Post pictures you find on the web.

http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Studebaker/1950StudebakerBrochure-a.jpg

[Shelly Harris]

I was born in 1942. Through out WWII my Dad had a four door 1938 (I believe) Olds which he told me he painted a new color every year so he could trick himself into thinking he had a new car every year. For the youngsters on the forum, during WWII passenger car production came to a halt. He traded it in on a Cadillac in 1948. So I'm guessing I went home in the Olds. But it could have been one of several delivery trucks he used in his business. Since I'm going to Fla at the end of the week to see my Mom... I'll ask if she can remember.

[linmk2]

Here was my response on the Lincoln forum to the same question:

"When my dad was in high school, he worked part time for a local funeral home as an ambulance driver (some funeral homes, many years ago ran ambulance services too. Seems rather odd if you think about it.) , long before the days of EMT's. He was just the driver. My dad became good friends with the funeral director whose name was Weldon Davis. As an aside, when my dad died in 1961, Mr. Davis came out of retirement to handle the arrangements. Anyway, my parents were married 18 years before I was born, so I was much fawned over. Mr Davis sent, from what I was told, a dark red 1951 Cadillac ambulance to bring my mom and I home from the hospital."

One thing I forgot to mention when posting the question on the Lincoln forum, I was told that when the ambulance turned on to my block, the driver turned on the lights and siren so everyone in the neighborhood knew my mom and I were on the way home. In 1952, neighbors really were neighbors. Today, such action would be consider stupid.

[Mad Scientist]

My mothers Olds. My fathers Cord was out of service with its typical corrosion problem on the terminals of the solenoids that shifted the transmission.

[Shawn Newcomb]

My father bought one like this in 1970 it was a '71 model. It was my parents only car for many years. They brought me home in it in 1973. I spent years riding on the 'doghouse'. I am sure many of you remember riding laying down across the package shelf of parents sedans or in the beds of their trucks prior to all the regulations we have now. It was refurbished and given to me for HS graduation thus becoming MY first car in the process. Still got it.


http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n163/thursdays_child_1971/streetvanad.jpg

[Chuck Lutz]

Shawn, Perfect..

Can you say Peter Maxx?

1974 I cheated all the bookmakers and graduated. (Dad had $20 on me at long odds)
Those vans should comprise their own collectability and nostalgia.

[Phil Gevertz]

1954 Ford Ranch Wagon, 3 speed on column, overdrive v8 white top, bottom red

[Shawn Newcomb]

Chuck,
Speaking of Peter Maxx I was just listening to a High Speed Stuff podcast about his involvement in the VH1 Corvette giveaway of 1989, remember that one?

[Chuck Lutz]

No sorry, that one got by me. I was in Maui last year and he has a shop there. I spent a long time in there and almost left with a very nice keepsake. I understand that he splits his time between the Islands and the mainland. I believe the lady said he's in his 70's now and still splashing the colors.

[SLK]

My father brought me home in a gold 1964 Continental Convertible.

I ran into the guy who saved it from behind a local repair shop. I think it was in pretty rough shape. I'd love to get that back and restore it some day. :rolleyes:

[Keith W Colonna]

According to family lore....in 1952, my parents brought me back from the French hospital near Casablanca to the US navy base in a 1950 Packard station wagon.
Often Navy officers would buy new American cars to ship overseas and sell for profit on the local economy when their tour of duty was over. I have pictures which were taken from the cab of that car as they travelled around Marocco during those years. I wore a fez and tunic as a baby.
When they returned, they bought another Packard...and then the 1959 Lincoln which I now have....preserved in a heated garage.
That's how I got Lincoln fever...and passion for the MKII

[Shawn Newcomb]

Chuck,
In 1989 VH1 was in dire straits and as a last ditch marketing ploy, they had a contest to give away 36 corvettes. ALL TO ONE WINNER! One from every year up to that point beginning with the ultra rare '53 that wasn't available to the public when new. They spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $660k at auctions to aquire them all. Some guy in NY won them, but out of necessity (what blue collar guy in has room for 36 vettes overnight) "cashed out" to Peter Maxx for 200-something thousand. Peter's plan was to paint them all, but never got to it and left them sitting uncovered in a parking garage in NY for all these years. The cars are still all complete, but in really rotten condition. NCRS members are beside themselves and have been for years. Heh, heh, heh...:)

[Chuck Lutz]

Great (and sad) story. I'd never heard of that give-away. You mean paint them on canvas or "Peter Maxx" the cars?

[Shawn Newcomb]

I don't honestly know. I'm thinking he couldn't make up his mind-it's been 20 years.:D

[Don Henschel]

I was brought home in a 1959 Meteor with a 332 V8 and a 3 speed column shift. When I started to drive It became mine.
http://www.superoldies.com/1959Car/mm.html