'57 Heaven

edbert
edbert Posts: 1,041
edited August 2007 in The Clubhouse
So the family and I went to Branson last week for a little vacation. They had the '57 Heaven Museum at Dick Clark's American Bandstand. It is the largest collection of purely '57 model cars. Included in this are every American convertible model made in 1957. I assumed that I couldn't take a camera because every other place(including other museums we went to) wouldn't allow you to, I was wrong. Luckily I had the camera phone. Some of the pictures are a little blurry. Enjoy, I sure did.


Edit: By far the coolest things that I noticed on these cars, the exhaust pipes integrated into the bumper so that it gave some really clean lines and a custom look to a factory car. Oh yeah, and for you analog guys, they had a couple of DeSoto's with factory optioned 16 2/3 turntables as part of the stereo. I tried to get pics of it, but without a flash you couldn't see it.
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited August 2007
    Looking good.
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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited August 2007
    edbert wrote: »
    Oh yeah, and for you analog guys, they had a couple of DeSoto's with factory optioned 16 2/3 turntables as part of the stereo. I tried to get pics of it, but without a flash you couldn't see it.

    If you look up the DeSoto "Adventurer" Convertible you should be able to find some more info on it. It was the "Highway HiFi" option. Apparently you could only purchase the records from Chrysler dealerships which also had them as options on the 300C convertibles.

    Here's the website for the place I was. '57 Heaven
    Click on "Collection Information" to see each of the cars along with some info about them.
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,664
    edited August 2007
    Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited August 2007
    Dang, man. Those are GREAT quality pics for a camera phone. They're three times as good as they'd have been with my phone!

    Lots of sweet looking cars, too. But...where's the Belair??
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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited August 2007
    Unfortunately, the lighting around the Belair's wasn't that great, so all the shots of them turned out blurry. But they were awesome looking in person!
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited August 2007
    HiFi
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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited August 2007
    That's it. I was just looking for the same thing.

    Here's a magazine advertisement about it. Ad.jpg
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,664
    edited August 2007
    That's cool. Who among us got that option?
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited August 2007
    Surely they had one of these on display....
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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited August 2007
    They did, but again, the lighting wasn't good enough to get a good picture.
    I know just enough to be dangerous, but don't tell my wife, she thinks I'm a genius. :D

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    Monitor 40's - fronts, bi-amped
    Monitor 30's - surrounds
    CS1 - center
    PSW10 - I'll let you guess
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    Sony Progressive scan DVD
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