Advertising Cars

[John Swindler]

Are you sure the "Mohawk Car" was painted with gold paint?

Or was it a gold foil???  (very vague recollection of comment heard more 
years ago then care to remember).  And yes, car was used for a PRMA fantrip.

And which Chrysler car was on the Second Ave. routes.  There were about nine 
of them.  (just to trip-up those who want to assign the Chrysler painted 
"car" to a single barn)

John S.



>From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: RE: Advertising Cars
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:58:26 -0400
>
>Mohawk Airlines was originally Robinson Airlines.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>[mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of
>brathke at juno.com
>Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 9:33 AM
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: Advertising Cars
>
>
>I took some photos of the Hillside Dodge car on the 85 line, and believe
>it also ran in the South Hills.  Most of the ad cars ran on 22, but in
>the early 60s they started to appear on other lines, possbily at the
>request of the advertiser, especially if the advertised company was on or
>near those lines.
>
>The 1964 Chrysler car was often on the 2nd Avenue lines.   In 1963, the
>Ivory Towers car ran on 8-Perrysville.  Ivory Towers was the name of a
>home subdivision just across U.S. Route 19, south of Keating carbarn, and
>the car's paint job read, "This car to Ivory Towers."
>
>I have a photo of the Mohawk Airlines car on 21-Fineview, but it might
>have been a fantrip.  Mohawk Airlines (originally called Richardson
>Airlines) merged into Allegheny Airlines (originally called All American
>Airlines), and is US Airways today.  There's a photo of this car on page
>12 in Harold Smith's book, but the caption gives incorrect color
>information - the car was actually painted metallic gold and gloss black
>(not blue).
>
>Bob 7/17
>
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>
>On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:44:54 +0000 Kenneth and Tracie Josephson
><kjosephson at sprintmail.com> writes:
> >
> > I just sealed an envelope with some images for Jim Holland. One of
> > them shows
> > the 1400 painted for Hillside Dodge. The car is clearly signed for
> > Route 55.
> > I keep hearing these cars were restricted to Route 22. So did
> > advertising
> > cars ever get assigned to other routes (besides the car advertising
> > the
> > subdivision as shown in the "Touring" book?)
> >
> > I will be away from my computer and e-mail from July 18th through
> > the 26th.
> > Ken J.
> >
>
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