Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Automobiles Did Your Ancestors Own?

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  What automobile models did your ancestors have?  Pick an ancestor and share something about their cars.

2)  Share your information about your ancestor's car(s) in your own blog post, writing a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Substack post, Facebook Note, or some other social media system.  Please leave a comment on this post so others can find it.

NOTE:  I could use ideas for different SNGF topics.  Please email me (randy.seaver@gmail.com).

Thank you to Lisa Gorrell for this week's SNGF challenge topic.

Here's mine:

1)  I know that my grandfather Lyle Carringer (1891-1976) owned a Ford Model T in about 1920 because I have a photograph of the car with my mother on the hood of the car -- see below:

My grandfather was partial to Hudson cars in the 1930s and into the 1950s, but I don't have a photo of the cars.

2)  My father drove across the country from Massachusetts to San Diego in 1940, but I don't know what kind of car he drove.  When he worked for Prudential Insurance, from 1946 to 1971, he had a new car every three years or so because he had to drive a 40 to 50 mile round trip to work several days a week.  I recall a blue Mercury in the 1950s that we rode in to Yosemite and bowling tournament vacations in the Central Valley in the mid-1950s.  My mother would get her right arm sunburned on our long trips in summer weather with no air conditioning.  In the late 1950s, my father bought a pink Oldsmobile:

After 1970, he became partial to Cadilac cars and owned several of them (one got crushed in the garage by the cement mixer).

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