Automotive Picture of the Day - April 24, 2009.

[MycroftHolmes]

Time; August 17, 1953. Click here to view a full-size readable image.

 

[Johnny]

Oh, how very nice.

 

[RTexasF]

I remember back in that day when my parents ooed and awwed at that car wishing they could afford it.

 

[levi]

Your timing is impeccable, given that Pontiac is alledgedly getting the axe from GM. These are the good old days.

 

[TurboLuver]

Kinda looks like a "baby" Cadillac of the same period.

 

[Benzadmiral]

That ad appeared just two weeks before I was born. A big handsome two-tone car . . . but imagine how hot you'd be inside it at the beach in summer, without today's air-conditioning. A/C units were available on some Oldsmobiles, Cadillacs, and Lincolns (I think), but most cars had the classic 4/60 climate control: "Four windows down, sixty miles an hour."