'34 Portage V8 versus '35 Chevy: The photographs tell the story

In 1938, this Passage was a fantasy auto for a 21-year-old gearhead 

Wheezing my way through billions of dust-covered photos, slides, and negatives in old, disintegrating encloses stashed my folks' loft for the most part means unlimited hours of hurling aside Brownie shots of some fourth cousin's First Fellowship in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, yet from time to time I'll strike gold. The most recent find was this trio of modest 117-film contact prints, obviously shot in 1938, two of which caught my racer granddad's first cool auto. 

My fatherly granddad was a thrifty, productive residential community Minnesotan, while my maternal granddad was a bar-fighting self-trained architect from the splendid lights of St. Paul, who trusted that a penny blown was a penny delighted in… and blew a considerable lot of those pennies on quick autos, quick bikes, and hustling amid his 97 years on the planet. He spent World War II as a Pacific Theater Milo Minderbinder, storing up an individual armada of vanished from-the-Armed force record-books vehicles wherever he was positioned. Before he claimed those many olive-dull Jeeps and Harley-Davidsons, however, he had this ultra-cool Bonnie and Clyde Release 1934 Passage.

This '35 Chevrolet was caught in the same succession of photographs, and the folks with this auto appear to be a great deal more genuine in the Germano-Midwestern style, with their pressed collars and stern looks.

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