1965 Amphicar, Model 770 — 1965
Posted on 02/26/2019 5:35:41 AM PST by vannrox
These Kodachrome slides are from when go-ahead Americans believed a flying car was just around the corner
Well I’m not braggin’ babe so don’t put me down
But I’ve got the fastest set of wheels in town
When something comes up to me he don’t even try
‘Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly
– Little Deuce Coupe, the Beach Boys
1965 Amphicar, Model 770 — 1965
You like our post ‘The 1950s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome‘ so much that we combined our wit and came with another: ‘The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome.’ This one. Although who needs roads when you have an Amphicar (see above)?
The headline might be familiar, but the images in this great set of Kodachrome slides from when Americans in American-made cars explored the country are original.
Yellowstone 1967
Homosassa Springs — December 1968
Feeding the Buick.
Las Vegas at Night — 1967
Under the Fremont Hotel marquee
Having a Wonderful Vacation — 1969
Tiny Trailer — 1965
Bandshell, Sanford, FL – Early 50s
Bandshell on Lake Monroe (St. John’s River) in Sanford, Florida. Submarine Chaser SC679 sits ready.
Andersen’s — Buellton, CA 1961
San Francisco, California — 1966
Corner of Powell and Ellis looking down Powell towards O’Farrell.
Times Square, New York City – 1964
In the Driveway, Middletown, NY — 1960
Las Vegas — 1961
Teepee Drive-in / Buffalo Burgers
Elmhurst Blizzard 1967
Leaving L.A. — 1962
Stretch of coastline near L.A. lined with petticoat palms.
Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco — 1962
General Motors Concept Car — 1964
Kalakaua Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii, 1967
A cream 1955 Chevy Bel Air with surfboards in tow is braking as it crosses Lewers St. on a green arrow. The Ala Moana Building’s “Top of Waikiki” rotating restaurant can be seen above and behind the distinctive Bank of Hawaii / Galleria tower.
41 Buick — Clearwater Beach, FL Causeway
Period photo taken on Clearwater Memorial Causeway (or RT. 60/Gulf-to-Bay) facing east from Clearwater Beach.
Corvette, Middletown, NY — 1960
Mid-Century Motels, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida — 1969
Pioneer Auto Museum, Murdo, South Dakota — 1965
Badlands Petrified Gardens — July 1965
Ranch Store, Cactus Flat, SD — July 1965
Dunedin Beach, FL — 1966
Escondido Bowl and a Red Ford Galaxie – 1966
A fire-engine red 1962 Ford Galaxie rinses off at a Chevron under a googie-riffic sign in Escondido, California.
1956 Chevy Bel Air at Spring Break, Ft. Lauderdale 1966
Photos and captions via ElektroSpark
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Clean looking folks there. No tats....no hippie hair.
I was at that World's Fair. Dad worked for GM and he took the whole family to see the GM Pavilion. I remember seeing that concept car...and many others. I think I have an old B&W snapshot of it somewhere among the family archives.
That poor boy in Middletown, NY needs some hub caps or wheel covers for his car!
It weird looking at these pictures, knowing that all of those cars are probably crushed.
I still kick myself for not buying an Amphicar at a swap meet some years ago. It was quitting time and the guy was motivated to sell and I had the cash. The car was quite restorable.
“Clean looking folks there. No tats....no hippie hair.”
And note their weights, as compared to today.
Is that a VW Beetle pulling that tiny trailer?
PING! Memory lane 1960s.
BFL.
“It weird looking at these pictures, knowing that all of those cars are probably crushed.”
My dad had a 30 acre junkyard in Leonia, NJ. In 1969, the town had a meeting at 2am and condemned his place to make a park. He had 60 months to get everything off the place. Many cars went into the crushers.
later.
America. Before Liberals ruined it.
I noticed that too. The guys look like guys and the girls look like girls.
As soon as I can afford a DeLorean with a flux capacitor I am heading back to the 60’s.
Not only is that a VW Beetle pilling the tiny trailer, but that is a 1968 Bug, NOT a 1965 Bug as the caption says. The taillights and rear bumper tell the story.
It was our culture. We failed to defend it properly against the radicalism that arose in the mid-to-late Sixties. And then we elected those "former" radicals to office, in large numbers.
America died because Dad Wasn't Cool Enough. The schism between the Sixties kids and the Thirties parents was so great that the Sixties kids tried to erase every single thing the Thirties parents ever built or believed in. The Sixties kids holding political office today are still fighting that battle - and they have largely convinced the Nineties kids to follow their lead.
See the USA!
In a Chevrolet!
Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?
Note the foreign license plate on the Bug....................
“...America. Before Liberals ruined it.....”
Each pic is worth a thousand words, but it all spells the above.
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