Family albums ‘n four-speeds – “I never got caught”

I wondered if the flow of car photos from family albums would slow after the holidays, but I’m pleased to see that it hasn’t. This first trio of photos comes from Berk Jones of Roxboro, North Carolina, and all three show Berk’s father, Carl.

Berk writes:

Being in high school in the mid-Seventies, I collected quite a few tickets. You can imagine the talks my dad had with me. Showed a cousin the picture of Carl and his ‘39 Chevy (above), he said Carl tore out two, maybe three transmissions and one rear end. I asked my dad why he got on me so much about my driving with his past history. His answer – “I never got caught.” End of conversation.

Next up, Robert Gibson sent this photo of his wife’s father, Henry Schnaars, possibly at the Jersey Shore, circa 1930. Robert actually sent this in to HCC Lost and Found, but through some scanning of the books in the Hemmings library, we were able to ID the car as a 1925-1927 Peerless boattail roadster. Pretty snazzy car for a young man at that time.

Last but not least today, Heather saw the extent to which I went digging for my family’s car photos over the holiday, so she grabbed a few out of her family’s albums. It seems she was brought home from the hospital in a 1971 Firebird Esprit 350 that her father paid cash for when it was new.

An X-body Pontiac Ventura followed sometime in the 1970s, then came this 1979 Caprice station wagon that her father used to tow their camper all around Upstate New York. It was in the back seat of the Caprice that Heather’s brother, Tommy, learned to stand up to his cousin’s teasing by stabbing the cousin through the hand with a pen. They laugh about that now.

We’d love to hear your family’s car histories and see your family’s car photos, so feel free to either send them directly to us, post them to the My Hemmings pages or add them to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool.

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