1949 Crosley Wagon

I know, I know, NOT AGAIN!!!

I have wanted one of these for years, My dad worked at the Factory in 1951 if I remember his stories right....STOCK....Drive it home if you dare! May do a Road trip Friday or Monday.....and go pick it up...

I have a buddy who has a woodie. I'm thinking its a crosley if I'm not mistaken.

We passed one tonight over in Covington. Little blue one. First tim e I seen that one. There is a yellow one that runs around local here too.

The yellow one belomgs to a guy off of West Johns Hill road in Wilder.

skinnyj wrote:The yellow one belomgs to a guy off of West Johns Hill road in Wilder.

You sure? I know the guy who owns it and he lives out on Pleasant Ridge in Alexandria, his name is Tim Schweitzer.

Here's an article about it from a few years back. Pic wouldn't load.
ALEXANDRIA - People laugh and point at Tim Schweitzer as he drives by in his 1951 Crosley station wagon, so he turned it into a clown car for Alexandria's fair parade.
Schweitzer, 45, of Claryville, restored the Cincinnati company's classic car back to road-worthiness in 2006. The car is about twice the size of a refrigerator. It's difficult to discern when the car's four-cylinder, 26-horse power engine is idling or turned off.

"They just think it's so cute," Schweitzer said. "You go down the road and they're pointing and laughing, and that's when I thought of the clown outfit. I thought 'That will give them something to laugh about.'"

Schweitzer dressed up as a clown for the Alexandria fair parade, and also stuck a mock wind-up key on the back of the car.

He has a custom made bumper sticker on the back stating "If you can't run with the big dogs. Follow me."

Many people often mistake it for a foreign car, and don't realize it was made by Cincinnati inventor and entrepreneur Powel Crosley Jr., Schweitzer said.

Crosley built radios and refrigerators starting in the 1920s, owned Cincinnati radio and television stations, and the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. He made his own line of ultra-compact cars from 1939-52.

"It's just so nice to be able to drive a piece of history," Schweitzer said.

Schweitzer's father bought the car in 2005 in Norwood, where it had mostly sat in a garage since 1965.

Tim has a history of tinkering with cars, said his father, Jim Schweitzer, of Wilder.

"He's a heck of a mechanic," Jim said of Tim. "He can fix anything."

Tim built a go-cart from scratch, including the motor, when he was 14, and hasn't stopped since, said his father.

"It was a bucket of rust when he got it, but it's all new now."

But by reading that now Id say that's his dads house in wilder.