Thumpalumpacus
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No bacon for you, brotha.
Cars named after (or same as) WW2 and 1950s aircraft?
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No bacon for you, brotha.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
U.S.S. Texas? U.S.S. Texas did carry floatplanes so it would technically be an aircraft carrier. Technically right is the best kind of right.
Peter Gunn
Master Sergeant
Did you rent if from Enterprise car rental?
Apparently Jack Taylor, the founder, served on board CV 6 during WWII and named his company as a tribute to the old girl.
Thumpalumpacus
Major
Nah, it was the vehicle's name, and no,
SaparotRob
, it wasn't a name I gave it, it was the badge name.Reluctant Poster
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I remember driving my friends fathers 1968 full size Mercury. It handled like an aircraft carrier.
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For a very few years, I had three of those P-15 48' Plymouths. Interestingly enough, the one I paid $15 for was built in March 1949 in Indiana. It was still titled as a 48'. Repair parts for it cost $11 and labor was mine.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Could be either a Ford Ranger (USS Ranger CV-4) or a Lincoln (USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72).
Reluctant Poster
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IntrepidNah, it was the vehicle's name, and no,
Thumpalumpacus
Major
There's your bacon!
I did drive a 74 Lincoln for about a month while my own car was in the shop after an accident. I swear, there were planes from Pt Mugu (right down the road) lining up in the groove over the hood. I needed binoculars to see the ornament.
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Which is why I rent from them. I thought he had served on CVN 65.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
He was an F6F pilot, serving aboard both Enterprise CV-6 and Essex CV-9.
Hi,
Hopefully not getting too far off topic, but my first car was a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere. Its name doesn't have any avaition or nautical connections, but I used to jike that its trunkwas big and wide enough to land a helicopter on it, and on more than a few occasions wondered what it would look like if I painted the trunk dark gray with landing markings
AhemHi,
Hopefully not getting too far off topic, but my first car was a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere. Its name doesn't have any avaition or nautical connections, but I used to jike that its trunkwas big and wide enough to land a helicopter on it, and on more than a few occasions wondered what it would look like if I painted the trunk dark gray with landing markings
Bristol Belvedere - Wikipedia
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
New one for me.
Ooops, my mistake
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Just read an article about Parnelli Jones and in the mid-60's, he was driving a race car, who's type was called a "Shrike".
So there's one for the Fw190.
So there's one for the Fw190.
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And the Curtiss A-12
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Curtiss actually used that name for several of their types, just as they used the name "Hawk" for several types.
And of course, Studebaker had a Hawk model line.
Studebaker also had a Lark model, which happens to be the name of a civilian flyable version of the Culver PQ-8 drone.
And speaking of USAAF attack types, Northrop produced a type named Nomad - sound familiar?
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
"I am Nomad. I am perfect."
Post WWII, GM took over Kansas City, Kansas' B-25 plant, located on Fairfax Field, next to the Missouri. Come Korea, the government wanted it back and GM countered by offering to build an adjacent plant, in less time and cost, upgrading logistics to handle both.
They wound up building Republic F-84Fs on one side of the wall, while Olds, Pontiac and Buick station wagons ran down the line a few feet away.
