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rrlund 02-21-2013 15:03:57 207.241.137.116 Report to Moderator	Scanned these from an August 1953 Farm Journal. [Reply]   [No Email]
Gary Reif 02-21-2013 20:10:06 68.103.215.113 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   Thanks for the pictures. The picture of the refridgerator(sp), looks very similar to my 1953 International Harvester still working. Gary [Reply]  [No Email]
ShadetreeRet 02-21-2013 20:08:30 184.4.20.29 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   Thanks for the memories! I remember the HydraMatic GMC trucks. Also, when I was a kid I would go into the Western Auto store in the little town near us to buy bicycle parts. They had just about anything you needed to repair a bicycle. Bought a set of "split-fire" spark plugs there for my first car also. [Reply]  [No Email]
Paul from MI 02-21-2013 19:36:08 204.106.250.243 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   Lots of good ads, bringing back memories. I remember buying parts for my '53 Chevy from Western Auto, they were kind of the Auto Zone of the 50's, but most of them had someone that actually understood how a car functioned. [Reply]  [No Email]
B-maniac 02-21-2013 18:11:33 97.92.55.60 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   I just bouht a Successful Farming mag dated Jan. 1951 off this site classifieds for $4.00. Same year and month I was born. Couldn't resist it and price was right and excellent shape. Neat stuff. [Reply]  [No Email]
Jim in LA 02-21-2013 17:28:42 72.146.95.149 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   Western Auto and the Wizard brand supplied our family for many years. I still have a 1969 Fall and Winter catalog. It has the Eliminator buzz bikes that my brother and I bought with money from the soybean crop that year. I still have the Revelation (Crosman) 760 BB/pellet gun I got for Christmas in 1968. We had a Wizard riding mower purchased in 1975 and used until the mid 90s. [Reply]  [No Email]
rrlund 02-21-2013 17:57:32 207.241.137.116 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Jim in LA, 02-21-2013 17:28:42   The thing I remember most about Western Auto was their Christmas display in the front window. [Reply]  [No Email]
Larrystinescorner 02-21-2013 16:37:29 173.54.227.206 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   neat pictures! thanks! [Reply]  [No Email]
rrlund 02-21-2013 16:55:33 207.241.137.116 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Larrystinescorner, 02-21-2013 16:37:29   Did you see the Oliver pictures from last night and this morning? [Reply]  [No Email]
Larrystinescorner 02-21-2013 16:57:49 173.54.227.206 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 16:55:33   yes ,sure did !Really enjoyed them! [Reply]  [No Email]
bob in oakboro 02-21-2013 16:34:16 166.82.157.222 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   I learned to drive in the pasture with a Buick like that in the first picture. If I remember right it had a starter button on the floor and I know that ours had a radio antenna that rotated on a knob. [Reply]  [No Email]
rrlund 02-21-2013 16:36:41 207.241.137.116 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to bob in oakboro, 02-21-2013 16:34:16   I remember Dad had a 56. You pushed the accelerator pedal all the way down to start that one. [Reply]  [No Email]
Notjustair 02-21-2013 15:52:06 174.253.128.91 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   I've never heard of Hydra-Matic drive in a big truck. Must not have been a very good seller as I have never seen one. I'm not sure I would get an auto trans in a big truck today! [Reply]  [No Email]
Harvey 2 02-21-2013 16:22:33 74.128.149.135 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Notjustair, 02-21-2013 15:52:06   GMC had a lot of big trucks with Hydra-Matic in them back in the 1950s and 60s. Today most of the new 18 wheelers have some kind of automatic transmissions in them. Just because someone hasn't heard of something doesn't make it not so. [Reply]  [No Email]
JMS/.MN 02-22-2013 09:45:58 209.237.125.241 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Harvey 2, 02-21-2013 16:22:33   US Army had deuce and a half trucks with the auto.......heard a lot of complaints about them from drivers at Ft. Bragg. Did"nt stand up well. That was 1965. [Reply]  [No Email]
rrlund 02-21-2013 16:33:34 207.241.137.116 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Harvey 2, 02-21-2013 16:22:33   Dad was a school bus mechanic and bus driver. He drove the only cab over that the district had. That one was a GMC with an automatic. This was back in the 50s,early 60s. [Reply]  [No Email]
Areo 02-21-2013 16:04:10 65.29.189.45 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Notjustair, 02-21-2013 15:52:06   In the days of milk being shipped in cans our hauler had a '48 GMC with hydra-matic tranny. It had something like 140K miles on it without any problems. 140K miles picking up milk is a lot of starts and stops. I guess it never got a chance to develope anything sticking to cause problems. Areo [Reply]  [No Email]
Adirondack case guy 02-21-2013 15:50:08 74.69.160.79 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   Very nice peices from from the "Good Old Days" Loren, the Acg [Reply]  [No Email]
rrlund 02-21-2013 15:54:06 207.241.137.116 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-21-2013 15:50:08   I just scanned some from February 54 too. I'll post them another time. A lot more tractor ads in that one. I got IH,AC,Massey Harris,Cat,Ford and Ferguson along with Jeep and Homelite. [Reply]  [No Email]
Vito 02-21-2013 15:37:33 68.118.193.1 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   RR, Now you got me thinking about Willy pickup trucks again.Always wanted one. Cool old ads. Vito [Reply]  [No Email]
Larrystinescorner 02-21-2013 16:36:45 173.54.227.206 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Vito, 02-21-2013 15:37:33   heres one Vito,I dont know what year it is [Reply]  [No Email]
wolfman 02-21-2013 18:25:50 174.140.65.158 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to Larrystinescorner, 02-21-2013 16:36:45   I'd guess about a 1949. Dad ran one of those. I think made by Mahindra before Chrysler bought the jeep name from them. [Reply]  [No Email]
bwillett 02-22-2013 03:48:23 50.102.43.171 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to wolfman, 02-21-2013 18:25:50   Are you trying to re-write history, wolfman? Let me lay it out for you. "Jeep" was a popular contraction for "General Purpose", which was from the United States Army nomenclature for 1/4 ton vehicle, general purpose. American Bantam Motors designed the winner of a competition to win the government contract to build these vehicles for the Army in WWII. The government, in it's infinite wisdom decided that American Bantam did not have the capacity to fulfill the contract, so they had Willys and Ford build the final design that became the Jeep. After WWII, Willys owned the name and built the Jeep until the 1960's when American Motors bought the name. When American Motors went bankrupt, Chrysler bought the name. They still own it. [Reply]  [No Email]
wolfman 02-22-2013 17:50:43 174.140.65.158 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to bwillett, 02-22-2013 03:48:23   Right. I knew Mahindra's Willys fit in there someplace between WWII and 1960. [Reply]  [No Email]
bwillett 02-23-2013 07:52:52 50.102.62.224 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to wolfman, 02-22-2013 17:50:43   Mahindra never owned the Jeep name or company. [Reply]  [No Email]
bwillett 02-23-2013 07:47:16 50.102.62.224 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to wolfman, 02-22-2013 17:50:43   I think you are confused, wolfman. If Mahindra had anything to do with Jeep, it was as a licensee. In other words, They may have built Jeeps in India, for that market, but they did not own the Jeep name, they paid for it's use. [Reply]  [No Email]
wolfman 02-23-2013 10:07:28 174.140.65.158 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to bwillett, 02-23-2013 07:47:16   Thanks for the info. Not the first time I've been confused. I was sure that I read in the journal where Mahindra begat the Willys name. [Reply]  [No Email]
VicS 02-21-2013 15:34:46 70.195.65.240 Report to Moderator	Re: 1953 Farm Journal Pics in reply to rrlund, 02-21-2013 15:03:57   Neat [Reply]  [No Email]