vintage pics of women & cars

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Romeo Palamides had a garage/shop on the south side of Chicago on Pulaski in my neighborhood. I don’t remember seeing that girl around there though.

 

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"The Flamingo was based on a production Electra 225 convertible, but with several noteworthy modifications, starting with the color: an eye-searing pearlescent pink.

Custom paints with trick pigments and toners—pearls, candies, metalflakes—were just coming into use in the custom car world in the early ’60s, but it would be many years before these finishes would be suitable for standard production cars.

The other key attraction of the Flamingo was the its full-house custom interior, which included two-tone upholstery in pink leather and cranberry brocade. A wide console with bright-metal trim ran between the front bucket seats, although the shift lever for the Turbine Drive automatic transmission remained on the steering column.

The clock, mounted in the top of the dash on the production Buick, was relocated to the console riser, where it could possibly be mistaken for a tachometer. But the most novel addition was the pivoting passenger seat, which turned 180 degrees to face the rear passenger seats, ostensibly for outdoor entertaining—tailgate parties and such.

It’s not known what became of the Buick Flamingo when the final stage was struck on the 1961 Motorama tour, but like so many unique and intriguing GM show cars, it is presumed destroyed."

source: The Fabulous 1961 Buick Flamingo.

 

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Asserted to be a parade in Burbank, 1954. Either the ladies (only six of them) are heavier than they appear, or that truck needs some rear suspension work

 

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Pebble Bea

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