Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[BobPalma]

A dark-colored 1962 Lark 4-door center left:

[Blue 15G]

And also in 11221 a Checker Station Wagon beside the delivery van!

[JGK 940]

If you check the photo properties, it is titled "Police1", so may well be a metropolitan police impound.
Don't really see any crash damage; but why so many hoods and trunks open?

Depends on what the police were looking for and what they found when they opened them. When my Lark was hot-wired in San Diego and left at the border SDPD ripped out the back seat, popped the trunk, pulled up the spare, dug around in the fenders and under the hood... and left it that way in the yard, with two doors open, trunk lid and hood up, seat hanging out, and parts of my jack on the ground under the next car over. They also never called me to tell me it had been recovered, despite my having filed a report within six hours of its disappearance. It had been in the yard for two weeks when I called them, racking up $15/day in impound fees AND charges for the tow. I had to borrow all that from my boss and tip a junkyard employee to hotwire it again for me. I have to assume they were looking for drugs. Of course they found nothing. Must have been frustrating for them. The claims I filed went nowhere.

[BobPalma]

From the Sunday, July 26, 2020 Old Motor:


and a 1956 Packard Clipper:

[Greenstude]

11224 ---
First picture -- Lots of used Chrysler products at the Simca dealers' yard.
Second picture --- Quite a variety in addition to the Packard. It has everything from Vauxhall and Renault to Rolls-Royce.

[BRUCESTUDE]

1963 Civil rights march in Seattle, and that's LE Belcourt Studebaker at 11th and E. Pike on the left-note the bottom of a "Lark" sign.

[Noxnabaker]

What about the car beyond the truck & Buick; a Lark..?

[kurtruk]

11224 ---
First picture -- Lots of used Chrysler products at the Simca dealers' yard.

They were also a Dodge/Plymouth dealer. See the sign on extreme right.

[BobPalma]

From the Sunday, August 2, 2020 Old Motor:

[55coupe]

That looks safe

[Skip Lackie]

We all wore hats in those days.

[StudeRich]

In 11218, that '59 Lark Wagon is one of THE Newest Cars in there!

The Car right behind it MIGHT be a '60 Ford, and the 3rd. one behind it is a '59 Pontiac, that's about it, mostly '55 to '58's.

I too also see the '56 President Classic farther back right side.

[8E45E]

In 11218, that '59 Lark Wagon is one of THE Newest Cars in there!

The Car right behind it MIGHT be a '60 Ford, and the 3rd. one behind it is a '59 Pontiac, that's about it, mostly '55 to '58's.

Newest car I see in that photo is the white 1961 Pontiac fifth from the end on the right side.

Craig

[NCDave51]

Look WAAY back at what's holdin' up the line

...and the only one unable to have functioning headlamps, clearly.

[skyway]

Could the problem in this picture be an ice-glazed hill?
PS, love those 1970 Furys; the pumps on the hood always look way cool.