(Photos Uploaded By Alan Cutts)
Today’s photos are of a great looking classic car decked out in Tiger Orange!
The above picture was taken on a fall afternoon in Clemson prior to a football game in the mid 1960’s. The car would show up at almost every home football game, and this picture was taken in the Tillman Hall loop.
The Tiger on top of the car was reportedly made out of fiberglass and today resides in the garage of someone in Liberty.
Another story was that the car belonged to Clemson Alum Goody Thomas of Rock Hill, SC.
If you notice, the car has the number ’42 on the side door panel. I believe the significance of the ’42 is to honor the class of 1942 and their 25th Anniversary of graduation (which would have been in 1967).
Below is a black and white picture taken of the car with member of the class of 1942 standing beside it.
Worth notice from this class of students…almost all of them upon graduation would have entered the service and fought in World War II, which we had just entered in December of 1941 (just 4 months before the Class of ’42 graduated). Therefore, this picture may represent a majority of that depleted Class of ’42, many of which perished fighting for our nation.
(Note: If you have old pictures dating before 1990 that are Clemson related and you would like to share them, send them to me in an email with as much information about the picture as you can give and I will use it for a future “Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day”).
Scott Rhymer can be reached at Scottrhymer.tps@gmail.com
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