I wonder if I have photos of the same car? Incredibly rare is it's a Regina car.

In the late 50's, early 60's my friend's parents owned one of these, built in the USA, as their daily transportation.  We were 14-15 yrs old but his parents had come over from Europe and they were in there 60's.  Walked or rode the bus most of the time and drove this car very little.
We waited for them to go to bed about 8:00pm and about 9:00pm we would open the back door of the garage and push the car into the alley.  From there we pushed it to the next block and then started it by popping the clutch.  The car had a straight 8, very quiet running and a floor shifter hooked to a trans that you only used the clutch from a dead stop.  Once rolling we shifted without the clutch.  We cruised the drive-in hangouts when we could barely see over the dash.
This worked great for months until one night we drove into a city park shortly after a rain and buried the car to the running boards.  We called his older brother for a bail out but eventually we paid a wrecker to pull it and by the time we got it back home, his dad was waiting.  It was fun while it lasted.  I always thought the suicide doors were the coolest and the back seat room was perfect for a drive-in date. 

here is the vin number 836198150 the 6th is an 8 could this be the 150th car assembled in Regina that would be cool

ken

-- Edited by Sportwagon400 on Friday 17th of September 2010 11:17:16 AM

Just for interests sake, here's the tag on a '37 Chevy that was originally sold to the Bowater-Mersey Paper company in Liverpool, NS.  The tag includes Regina, but the sixth digit is 0... would this be an Oshawa car?

Sportwagon400 wrote:

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here is the vin number 836198150 the 6th is an 8 could this be the 150th car assembled in Regina that would be cool

ken

-- Edited by Sportwagon400 on Friday 17th of September 2010 11:17:16 AM

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http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/chevytalk/GMhistory/1930onplantcodes.html

CHEVROLET ASSEMBLY PLANT CODES 1930 ONWARDS

CANADIAN CODES:

OSHAWA, ONTARIO: NO CODE BUT ALLOCATED "0" 1935 ONWARDS AFTER MODEL NUMBER

WALKERVILLE, ONTARIO: NO CODE 1930-1932

REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN: NO CODE 1930, 1931 BUT ALLOCATED "8" AFTER MODEL NUMBER,  DECEMBER 1937 TO JUNE 1941

 

I FOUND THIS ON LINE LOOKS LIKE MY CAR WAS ASSEMBLED IN REGINA  COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

 

67Poncho wrote:

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 Good looking car you have there! She is not in the registry yet, so 68sd will surely add it.

 Oshawa is a "1" so I am not sure but an answer will be here shortly..........




 

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Looks to me like oshawa is where yours was built :)

CHEVROLET ASSEMBLY PLANT CODES 1930 ONWARDS

CANADIAN CODES:

OSHAWA, ONTARIO: NO CODE BUT ALLOCATED "0" 1935 ONWARDS AFTER MODEL NUMBER

WALKERVILLE, ONTARIO: NO CODE 1930-1932

REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN: NO CODE 1930, 1931 BUT ALLOCATED "8" AFTER MODEL NUMBER,  DECEMBER 1937 TO JUNE 1941

 

I tried to post this hours ago but my browser hung. Anyway...

Here are 2 pictures of a 1939 Canadian Oldsmobile I took in 2006 in Ajax, Ontario. I seem to recall that you could tell the six cylinders from the eight cylinders by the mesh in the grille.

That Regina cowl tag is the coolest one I have ever seen.
I thought that grille didn't look like the car I remembered, we were driving a straight 8.

Ill try and get a better picture later