Yet another ‘name the car’, but also the plane…..

[Damp Logs]

Going thru some old family photos and came across this

It really needs to be enlarged without losing the definition to identify the people (one could be my Dad) but I don’t have the skills or technology.

Anyway I know the PistonHeads crowd will have an answer ( usually within minutes )

Thanks

Mike

[99t]

Think the car is a 1960 Ford Country Squire station wagon. No idea about the plane

[littleredrooster]

I wanted to say Ford Fairlane Station Wagon, but I'm not so sure now.

[snotrag]

Beechcraft 18 I think.


Edit - Maybe a Lockheed Super Electra

[99t]

99t said:

Think the car is a 1960 Ford Country Squire station wagon. No idea about the plane

Thinking again, it would probably have "had wood" if it was a Country Squire, so likely a lower spec model, perhaps the "Country Sedan"?

[douglasb]

Lockheed Hudson? The nose ahead of the screen looks too long for a Beechcraft 18.

[Penguinracer]

Is the plane a Lockheed Lodestar?

[Yertis]

Penguinracer said:

Is the plane a Lockheed Lodestar?

It's definitely of the Electra/Hudson/Lodestar family. So many variants of those and derivatives of repurposed military aircraft that I'm not sure. Eric Mc would know but he's not in this bit of PH very much. Maybe post it over in the Planes forum?

[Konrod]

No idea about the car - I get lost in the US models.

The aircraft is a Lockheed 14 Electra Super, the military versions were called the Hudson. The 30's saw rapid development of metal skinned commercial aircraft which ran ahead of the military, they had to catch up. A UK example of the phenomenon was the Avro Anson.

Remember, in 1937, two years before the war, the RAF was still primarily using biplane fighters made of wood and fabric............

[aeropilot]

Given, the photo is clearly taken in the early 1960's at least, I'd say the aircraft is far more likely to be a Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar.

[Damp Logs]

Thanks everyone for your answers,

My father spent quite a bit of time in early sixties doing business in States, so that ties in.

Regret not getting more details about his trips before he died