# Motorcycles in cosmoline

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/motorcycles-in-cosmoline/189327>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [February 26, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/motorcycles-in-cosmoline/189327 "2023-02-26T02:45:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/motorcycles-in-cosmoline/189327/21 "2023-02-27T18:21:29Z")

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Then there was the $50.00 Corvette (sometimes a Caddy), either the husband got caught cheating and the wife sold it to get even, or someone died in the Corvette and owner could not get the smell out.

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**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/motorcycles-in-cosmoline/189327/22 "2023-02-28T06:56:46Z")

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> [@Mustangman](#):
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> The adds directed you to government auctions

> [@Nevada\_545](#):
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> The “Jeep in a crate” myth;

I didn’t know that. See what you can learn here?

> [@texases](#):
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> Are you talking about ads 70 years ago? Why?

Fun. It’s optional.

> [@wolyrobb](#):
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> Speculation is that any Jeeps from that era still in the crate are still on the ships that were sunk enroute.

You discount the power of _Cosmoline_. As I mentioned earlier, the story I heard was the army had a contract to buy them past 1945 and as a courtesy to the manufacturer held on to them so they didn’t flood the market.

> [@VDCdriver](#):
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> The _Harleys in Cosmoline_ _for $25_ legend circulated often during my college years.

See? You have heard it.

> [@Purebred](#):
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> Then there was the $50.00 Corvette (sometimes a Caddy), either the husband got caught cheating and the wife sold it

I heard it as a Caddy. Somebody made a country song out of it. Why a wife did what her run-off-with-a-floozie husband asked her to do took the starch out of it for me. Nothing to do with Cosmoline.

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**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/motorcycles-in-cosmoline/189327/23 "2023-02-28T13:18:51Z")

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> [@RandomTroll](#):
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> See? You have heard it.

Yup!  
I actually posted about it in this forum a few months ago.

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 5:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/motorcycles-in-cosmoline/189327/24 "2023-03-03T05:24:57Z")

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I searched on Cosmoline first.

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/motorcycles-in-cosmoline/189327/25 "2023-03-03T12:20:18Z")

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$50 Vette had todo with myths and legends. Jeeps&Harleys **might** have been true in 1946.

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/motorcycles-in-cosmoline/189327/26 "2023-03-03T12:54:50Z")

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> [@Purebred](#):
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> Jeeps&Harleys **might** have been true in 1946

Yup!  
But, by the mid-late '60s?  
Not likely.

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