Vintage shots from days gone by!

Agree - the filler is on the left and the badge reads Station Sedan. The upper case s's would be on the left if not reversed.

Thanks to all the posters for the excellent pics posted lately. I know it takes a lot of effort.

Well done everybody!

Mart.

Edit: hadn't seen Maggie's post when I posted this.

 

The tuckers up to the late sixties generally used the flat head in line six cylinder Dodge engine with a manual trans and transfer case. I have a cousin in Carver, Or. who has had and still has a few of them that he uses in the Blues. Cool machines, crude but effective.
Maggie and Chris, I'd also like to thank you for all the effort over the past couple days! I've lived in southern Idaho well over 50 years (short the 6 riding submarines) and traveled to the Portland area at least a couple times a year to visit family through the 60's. I've been to a lot of the places depicted the past several pages and enjoy the trip back down memory lane!!
Maggie, if you really want a Tucker send me a PM. I may be able to hook you up. They are a hoot in the right setting. However they do require a lot of "care and feeding" to keep them viable. Most of the affordable ones are hitting or are past 50 years old today. Kind of like owning a hot rod.
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Bill Vukovich in Doug Caruthers' Viking Trailer Championship car. I don't think I've ever seen a photo of him with this car before. Thanks for posting, Rootie!

 

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I'm not sure, the Wikipedia page doesn't specify. I do know that having ridden in the ones in use up at Timberline Lodge when I was a kid they could handle pretty much any load and any conditions, they were cool as hell.

 

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I would so love one, but, as I have a few projects that are staring me in the face (1954 Terry trailer and my VW bus for starters), it looks like I won't be getting one. We lived just down the road from Carver (Bakers Ferry Rd.), it's funny what a small world it is. I love knowing about where I live, we have tons of memories of Mt. Hood, and the family just sold our little log cabin in Government Camp (built 1944 by my grandparents), and the new owner just demolished it for a big new chic house to replace it. Sigh.

 

Timberline still has some if the old Thiokols -

But I haven't seen this one below or any of the Sno Cats in a while -

I remember this one was used when people ski'd up high before they built the Texas chairlift. These two photos are in the 1960's


Whistler still has one in use -

 

Richard Kohnstamm (RIP) in front of one the Timberline Tuckers

 

Kandahar Ski Club, Michigan

 

It seems I'm not done with the Sno Cats...

Below is a Sno Motor that would carry up to 25 skiers onto the upper slopes of Mt. Hood above Timberline Lodge in the late 30's.


1947 Silcox Hut and skiers upper slopes Mt. Hood











This little snow mobile isn't a Tucker but funky enough not to include.

 

Holly Theater, Medford, Oregon


JFK in Medford, Oregon


Pear Blossom Festival, 1967

 

Leonard Nimoy stated that he would never be in a parade again because of the throngs of people there trying to get close to him. I guess it scared the crap out of him. The Holly theater is being restored at the moment.

 

got caught up on this thread...noticed a few pages back...the stones...

 

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Funny, but I was thinking to myself it could be the Chrysler 230 (Dodge) engine. It was used in various industrial purposes at the time...
Somehow the hood of the late 50's snow cat resembles same age Power Wagon, not that it means anything...

 

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Funny, but I was thinking to myself it could be the Chrysler 230 (Dodge) engine. It was used in various industrial purposes at the time...
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That certainly could be, I've come across a few new photos of old smaller Tucker's that look a lot like a Power Wagon with the Tucker tracks on them.

 

Wild machines, Maggie...

Russian "snowmobile" based on GAZ M20 car body, late 50's

Czech Tatra V855 made by order of 3rd Reich, 1942

 

I believe that's Chuck Weyant in the first photo. If so, he is now the oldest living Indianapolis 500 driver at 91 years. He was interviewed last year and he's still sharp mentally remembering everything about his first 500 start in 1955.

Rootie, is that Bryan in the second photo? Thanks.

 

I think you're right. Dempsey Wilson and Bill Garret also tried to qualify the 22 in 1956 but it doesn't look like either of them. Yes, that's Bryan in Schmidt's 77 in 1952. Don't know, for sure, what's going on but I suspect his tire changer was having some issues.

 

Yes that is right. The chrome lettering on the rear fender says Holden Special and you can see that it is reversed.
I see further on where you correct it and we have had some attempts to customise these but not as a Nomad.

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Escapee from the Stockyards






Detroit, Gas is Best

 

Seattle Fire Dept.

 

The Speck in Portland somewhere