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The third picture is somewhere in Ohio, could be Dayton, but I'm thinking closer to Cleveland.

I'm surprised no one's taken a shot at the last car pictured...........famous customizer, still going strong.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

I'm surprised no one's taken a shot at the last car pictured...........famous customizer, still going strong.

Doesn't look like a Barris creation, I'll guess Gene Winfield.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Doesn't look like a Barris creation, I'll guess Gene Winfield.

Good guess Ken, better go buy a lotto ticket!

Man those pictures makes my mouth water....LOL!

Bob, I thought we had a new member when I looked at your avatar, then I looked at the name beside it.....LOL!

NTFDAY, Pretty good!! But can you nail it down a little better? Heres another photo of the same city a few years later, also no checking licsense plates for hints. I left the caption on the bottom just to give you a heads up.

Next photo is a little tricky the one of the Chevy police car. Anyone willing to take this location on? Actaully there are enough clues in the background to get pretty close.

Customs ain't they cool.

Originally Posted by Hombre259

NTFDAY, Pretty good!! But can you nail it down a little better? Heres another photo of the same city a few years later, also no checking licsense plates for hints. I left the caption on the bottom just to give you a heads up.

Next photo is a little tricky the one of the Chevy police car. Anyone willing to take this location on? Actaully there are enough clues in the background to get pretty close.

Customs ain't they cool.

I don't think the pictures are of Dayton because of the lack of overhead trolley wires. At the time, late50's/60's, Dayton had a large public transportation system that employed both diesel buses and electric trolley cars. Also in that period it was pretty easy to tell where a car in Ohio had been registered by the license plates. In the southern part of the state,say Cincinnati for instance, the plate numbers could have been like 50 AA, while in the northern part of the state, say Cleveland for instance, the plate numbers could have been like AA 50. My grandfather, who lived in or around Lebanon, Ohio for years, had LN 69 as his plate number for decades.
Therefore I think the city in question is somewhere around the lake possibly Cleveland or maybe Akron.

Pretty good deduction skills there Bud. But in the early picture taken I think in 1957 arn't those trolly car wires up there? But what do I know I was born and raised in East Texas, and thought most of my youth Ohio was in the middle. It is one or the other of those you mention ------ But which one??

Roland