Vintage Picture

[joefrazer]

Found this picture online...

[Fid]

Wow, a Darrin among 3 Cadillacs. Cool picture that's for sure. Thanks for sharing.

[joefrazer]

Looking at the pic more closely, several things become obvious:
- An antenna has been mounted on the right rear.
- I don't see any script on the trunk lid.
- Darrins were supposedly equipped from new with a painted gas cap. This one sports one that's not.
- The car is equipped with wind wings.
- It also has the trunk medallion and looking down the side of the car, it appears to have the full size wheel covers instead of wire wheel caps.
- The license plate is date 1956.
- It's got a dent in the bumper!

I wonder if this car survives...

[Fid]

Here's another from that site with Dutch himself. I don't think I've ever seen this one -

[JFerriss]

wow, another great photo. That must be one of Dutch Darrin's early prototypes with the two piece windshield and the headlights in the position that he intended in the original design before laws forced a change in headlight height from the road. Seems like a wierd law now a days considering how much headlights have evolved.

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

Several states are considering a new headlight law establishing a MAXIMUM height of road lights.  This would mean special lighting or banning of jacked-up truck or other off-road vehicle as the lights would be too high and shine directy through the back window of the vehicle in front with too much brightness.   It's something the stylists and design computers are already taking into effect on the 2017-2021 platforms.

[Terry T]

what they should ban are fog lights that are on all the time as well as those high intensity blue-white lights that are cruel to us old folks

[pnw_oldmags]

I agree with Terry