Vintage shots from days gone by!

Any idea what track this is? Rootie?

 

Not exactly, but I would guess that it was in the Ind. Ohio area though. The cut down doors, like in the background car, was pretty typical in those parts. There were a bunch of ( short lived now long gone) tracks running roadsters post war all across the country back then.

 

Thank you!

 

The track is the "Shady Bowl" in DeGraff, OH. It was sort of a home track to the Triangle Racing Association. There have been several images posted over time of this scene-with slightly different angles/background. The baffling thing to me is that the car looks very much like Del Baxter's which was a California car usually driven by Troy Ruttman. 'Can't imagine what that car would have been doing at DeGraff.

 

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Thank you!

 

Albuquerque, NM 1943

 

The Queen of England no less, serving her time in the military. pip pip

 

Vancouver Island around 1956... Maybe Western Speedway but I cannot be sure.

 

Back again. The Louisiana online archive has been a real treasure trove with tons of car-related photos, so I cherry-picked another hundred or so good ones. And away we go...
This is the Gayle Building which housed a dealership in Lake Charles, dated 1940:

And in 1950, it inadvertently became an Esso station...



...wiping out a showroom full of brand new Packards.
















More coming up...

 

Part 2:












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To be continued...

 

Part 3:







Remember the Buick dealer from my last mass posting? This is from a few years earlier:

...and remember their '57 Special eight-door courtesy limo? This is their earlier one:

And by '61 it became a Chevy dealer.











Yet even more to come...

 

Part 4:




















(In case you're wondering what this car is, the original caption reads "Matilda Miller's Mercer" )
Last batch coming up...

 

Part 5, and finally a Corvair for swi66:


Wait a minute - what's that wagon? Zoom in once more:

Of all things to find in the USA, let alone Louisiana, it's a 1959(?) Simca Vedette Marly ("Marly" was the designator for station wagon). Powered by the old Ford V8-60, and almost never seen in this country. Any French HAMBers here who can verify the year? I've only found one other shot online of a wagon with these taillights.
Back to our program:
















('56 Olds vs. street sweeper. The street sweeper won.)

This last one's my favorite, despite the quality - Sharknose Grahams at a dealer which sold three other makes that were already dead - and Graham would soon be gone as well. At least they had REO to fall back on for a while...

Over to you. Thanks for looking!

 

Nice batch of photos chrisbcritter

 

Indeed a great batch and nice to see the odd Willys pop up(34 Sedan) and the Gas Station shots. Very, very cool and thanks. JW

 

Thank you!
Funny thing is I never realized how small the Willys really was until I saw it parked in front of that Chevy.

 

^^^I have a 35 Willys sedan and they are rather small. JW