Can you list all the cars you have owned?

This gentleman serves on the Cugnot Committee of the Society of Automotive Historians that I chair.  He is retired in Florida and just compiled a list of all the cars he's owned over the years (I think he's in his early 80s age wise).  The early ones on this list were acquired when he was in the Air Force stationed at various places.  He acquired the 1946 Packard when he was stationed in Prestwick, Scotland, the same year he shook hands with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip when they visited that base (1956).

Can anyone begin to match this list? He has owned 76 cars over his life to date with many of them highly collectable!  His 22nd car was a 1974 Pinto Station Wagon (hey, I owned one too)

Ed

CARS I HAVE OWNED -- Joe Mattheny                                        LISTS/MYCARS/WHEN BOUGHT

 

1.  1953 – 48 BUICK SD  - SAN DIEGO

2.  1954 – 40 PLYMOUTH SD - EDWARDS AFB, CA

3.  1956 – 46 PACKARD SD – PRESTWICK, SCOTLAND

4.  1958 – 52 PLYMOUTH SD - SAN DIEGO

5.  1958 – 54 OLDS 98 SD – SAN ANTONIO

6.  1959 – 46 OLD 76 SD – CHARLESTON, SC

7.  1960 – 51 CADILLAC 60S – HILL AFB, UTAH

8.  1961 – 55 BUICK SPECIAL 2-DR SD – HILL AFB

9.  1962 – 58 OLD 88 4-DR HDTP – HILL AFB

10.1963 – 63 CHRYSLER NEWPORT SD – COLUMBUS, OH

11. 1963 – 63 LINCOLN CONT CV SD – DALLAS, TX

12. 1966 – 66 MUSTANG CV – ORLANDO, FL

13. 1966 – 56 BUICK SD, ORLANDO, FL

14. 1967 – 68 OLDS 98 4-D HDTP – SAN DIEGO

15. 1968 – 65 VW KARMAN GHIA CV – WHITEMAN AFB, MISSOURI

16. 1970 – 64 ANGLIA 2DR – RAF LAKENHEATH, ENGLAND

17. 1970 – 70 JAGUAR XJ6 SD – RAF LAKENHEATH

18. 1972 – 51 BENTLEY MK 6 SD – RAF LAKENHEATH

19. 1973 – 58 ANGLIA 2-DR – RAF LAKENHEATH

 

ALL CARS BOUGHT WHILE LIVING IN DENVER

20. 1973 – 73 GREMLIN 

21. 1973 – 72 HORNET WGN

22. 1974 – 74 PINTO WGN

23. 1975 – 68 OLDS 98 CV

24. 1976 – 76 DATSUN PU

25. 1976 – 71 CAD SDV

26. 1978 – 78 CHEVETTE

27. 1979 – 79 SUBARU PU

28. 1979 – 40 BUICK 90 LIMO

29. 1979 – 40 CAD 60S SD

30. 1980 – 71 LINCOLM MK 111

31. 1981 – 40 PACKARD 180 CLUB SD

32. 1981 – 81 MAZDA 626 SD

33. 1981 – 76 HORNET WGN

34. 1982 – 41 CAD 63 SD

35. 1983 – 83 MAZDA 626 SD

36. 1985 – 85 MAZDA XR7

37. 1985 – 41 CAD 7533

38. 1985 – 41 CAD 7519

39. 1985 – 73 LINCOLN CONT SD

40. 1986 – 36 BUICK

41. 1986 – 47 CHEV SD

42. 1986 – 75 CHRYSLER IMP SD

43. 1987 – 48 LINCOLN 12 SD

44. 1987 – 82 FORD 150 PU

45. 1988 – 68 AMX

46. 1988 – 85 T-BIRD

47. 1988 – 65 DODGE CV

48. 1989 – 73 COUGAR CV

49. 1990 – 1978 GRANADA

50. 1990 – 1959 LINCOLN SD

51. 1990 – 90 LINCOLN TOWN CAR

52. 1990 – 88 FORD ESCORT 2-DR

53. 1990 – 86 FORD 250 PU

54. 1992 – 90 FORD ESCORT 2-DR

55. 1993 – 38 PACKARD SUPER 8 FORMAL SD

56. 1995 – 95 MERCURY GRAND MARQUE

57. 1996 – 41 CAD 60S SD

58. 1997 – 74 CHRYSLER IMPERIAL 2-DR HT

59. 1998 – 92 FORD 250 PU

60. 1990 – 88 FORD ESCORT 2-DR

 

ALL CARS BOUGHT SINCE MOVING TO FLORIDA

61. 2001 – 1995 CADILLAC FLEETWOOD BROUGHAM

62. 1995 – MERCURY GRAND MARQUE (BYRON’S CAR)

63. 2002 – 2002 ACURA 3.2 CL COUPE

64. 2003 – 1962 T-BIRD COUPE

65. 2003 – 1973 PORSCHE 911 CP

66. 2004 – 1947 CADILLAC COUPE

67. 2007 – 1991 M-B 420SEL

68. 2007 – 1997 M-B E420

69. 2009 – 2003 BUICK LESABRE SD

70. 2010 – 1961 CADILLAC CV

71.2011 -  1992 CADILLAC BROUGHAM

72. 2011 – 1993 CORVETTE COUPE

73. 2012 – 1999 JAGUAR XK8 CV

74. 2012 – 1969 LINCOLN MARK III

75. 2014 – 2005 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN

76. 2016 – 2013 LEXUS RX 350 SUV

 

Cadillac Bob Werner's !957 Eldorado Brougham at South Bend

 

Bob's 1957 is absolutely magnificent. Thanks to Ed for the photos. Those shot glasses remind me of a UD student who had 6 Jagermeister's in a row at that Krah-Krah in Vienna's Bermuda triangle one night. She couldn't have weighed more than 90 pounds but remained unfazed!

This car is representative of perhaps the high point of American automotive manufacturing during the post-WWII Golden Age. No one -- perhaps outside of Rolls-Royce -- made better cars during that time. Have times ever changed. national ascendancy is a very transient thing.

1981 Lectra Motors Lectra 2+2 - Will It Charge?

I watch Steve's "This Week with Cars" whenever he posts a new program. Usually it sabot old cars and his ability to get them to run again. He is a master of logical troubleshooting, and has a vast knowledge of British cars in particular. Several weeks ago he dug out of the junkyard a car I had never heard of before -- a 1981 Lectra. Based on a Datsun. this car was made in Chicago during Oil Shock II. Steve figured out how to put new batteries in it, and got it to run.  Now he wants to improve the car by adding a charger port.

I am most impressed with Steve not only because of his technical knowledge, but his flexibility to recognize that there is an inevitable future with electric cars. Quite a talent for being so young!

Robert's 4.2 Jaguar XKE, Greene County Cruise-In, August 6, 2021

 He bought it new as a a 15 year-old in Monroe, Michigan, and has owned it ever since. You can see it and many other British Cars -- MGs, Triumphs, Alpines, Jags, and more -- tomorrow at the British Transportation Museum's Car Day at Eastwood Park in Dayton. A fine annual event.

Walter Wanderwell Trades his Hanson for a Moon car, June of 1920

 Clipping from Los Angeles Evening Express, 12 June, 1920, p.14.

More possible distortions -- we know that the Hanson was the car that did the traveling between September of 1919 and June of 1920. The Moon was a recent acquisition, yet, Wanderwell stated that he had driven 68,000 miles in the Moon! This was simply not true.

From The Oregon Daily Journal, 15 August, 1920, p.44.

From The Butte Miner, 8 November, 1920, p.5.

Wanderwell in Mexico, May, 1920. His Encounters with Pancho Villa! Was He a German Spy?

 Walter Wanderwell remains an enigma, and my making sense of him is limited by the newspaper sources I have access to. We left Walter in Louisiana in late March of 1920. He subsequently went to Austin and San Antonio, Texas. In his party in Austin was the "human fly," Jack Gardner, who was to put on a show by climbing the capital tower and filming the surrounding city. Later his party ended up in Tucson, Phoenix, and Tombstone, Arizona, following the Old Spanish Trail. In between, the photographs below show the party in Mexico. Wanderwell met Villa a second time, according to the former. 

It became clear there that the Hanson was too heavy for the sands of Chihuahua. Wanderwell realized that for future exploratory trips a lighter car was essential. the Hanson was fine for driving on the Old Spanish Trail, but to stray from it invited disaster.

Wanderwell ended up in California in June 1920 with a Moon 6 cylinder car, but his mistruths in press articles obscure when he replaced the Hanson. We know he added a skull found in Mexico to the back of the Moon for theatrical effect. Walter was ever the showman.

He spoke of Pancho Villa as a friend and purportedly had a photograph of Villa saluting the  American flag, probably the one on the back of the Hanson. He also said he had met Villa before, in 1916. I thought that was another one of Walter's distortions, but now I wonder.

El Paso Times, 5/17/20, p.8

Austin American-Statesman, April 25, 1920, p.16.

 Scholarship has proven that Villa received assistance from the Germans in 1915 and 1916. Connections with several German spies have been established. Perhaps Walter was a low level operative, and that his story of previously knowing Villa is true. I could almost believe that!

View of Walter Wanderwell, Nell Wanderwell, Wanderwell expedition crew and car no. 1 in front of railway car in Mexico. Wanderwell holds movie camera. Handwritten on back: "1919, Mex., Sonora, Wanderwell #1, 1919 draped for press (crew) Cap. W., Nell W., mechanic." Detroit Public Library. NOTE that the date on this photograph is wrong. It is 1920!

View of Wanderwell expedition crew member and car no. 1 in Mexico. Saguaro cactus in background. Handwritten on back: "The great cactus of the American desert, 1919, car #1. Detroit Public Library. NOTE that he date is wrong on this caption, it should be 1920.

View of Wanderwell car in Mexico; driver checks under engine hood. Handwritten on sleeve: "Trial run with car, found it was not suitable. North America, Mexico, 1919."Detroit Public Library. Note date should 1920.

View of members of Wanderwell expedition, surrounded by dense vegetation, trying to dislodge car from mud in Mexico. Handwritten on sleeve: "Trial run with car, found it was not suitable. North America, Mexico, 1919."Detroit Public Library. Note date should be 1920.