Family albums ‘n four-speeds – Charles Lindbergh!

Okay, so we didn’t get a relative of Charles Lindbergh sending in his family album car photos featuring the famous aviator, but we did get a photo in which Lindbergh makes an appearance. Actually, Richard Monahan of Bozeman, Montana, sent the photo in a while back for the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic Car, but the quality isn’t that great, so we get to run it here. Richard wrote to ask us to identify the car and identified the man in the middle as Lindbergh.

He was on a fishing trip with my grandfather (right). This was in the Swan River Valley in western Montana.

See a larger version of the photo below. If you can ID the car, let us know and we’ll pass the info on to Richard.

Next, Marc Tyler, who already shared some photos of his 1968 Satellite, wrote in again with another photo of a family car:

Here’s a photo of my older brother Bruce, and My Dad at the driver’s door.  This picture was taken around Christmastime, 1970, and it’s a 1968 ford Fairlane 4 door, 3 on the tree with the 200 C.I. straight 6.  Bruce called it an “Old Fogey car,” I guess he was right.  I remember it was about as stripped down as a car could get.  No radio, no A/C (and this was Florida).  Picture was taken by my sister Margaret.

Our friend Myron Vernis has well indoctrinated at least two of his three daughters into his Porsche passion (though we can’t imagine it’s that hard to get two young ladies interested in Zuffenhausen’s finest), as these two photos show.

I have attached a couple pics from fifteen or sixteen years ago of our daughters Zoe (now 21) and Allie (presently 20) reflecting the price they paid growing up in a car crazy family. The picture from 1994 shows them performing a “free-form restoration” on our first art car, a ‘56 Porsche 356A sunroof coupe. The other photo shows them with their respective red Porsches. They both learned to drive on that tractor (a 1958 Porsche-Diesel Junior) when they were about seven.

Myron noted that Zoe still has her ‘65 cabriolet, but Allie now toodles around in another red Porsche, a ‘64 911.

Mike Gordon submitted a couple of interesting pics. Compared to the Lombard we saw earlier this month, the first of his photos shows a more conventional logging system with a Ford pickup taken in the late 1930s.

The Man sitting on the fender was my Great Grandfather. It was his truck that he used to get the logs for the sawmill he had. The second picture is my Grandfather with a 34 Chevy he bought after he got home from the war. New cars were in short supply so he and Grandma made do with a “pre-war” car. This picture was taken around early 1949 .The baby he’s holding is my Mom. The dead deer tied to the fender is quite a sight. Both these photos were taken near Hendersonville NC. The next year Grandma and Grandpa were able to get a new 1950 Chevy coupe.

Mike Savin’s father, Edwin, ran a Crosley dealership, called Savin & Sons, named for himself and his two sons, Mike and Matt. You know we’re pumping him for more info and materials, but in the meantime, a great photo of Ed and his kids.

Finally, Barron Bohnet wrote to us a while back and enclosed this photo he found in an old book shop.

The who, where, and when are unknown. It is clear, however, that the young man who took the picture had two loves in his life, the pretty girl on the fender, and his sparkling 1940 Ford that he fully outfitted with dual spotlights, side view mirrors, and elaborate bumper guard. It was, no doubt, the sharpest car in the whole neighborhood.

Very reminiscent of the photo of Mary Lou Lee we saw a few weeks ago.

Thanks, everybody, for sharing your photos. For the rest of you, 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.