Vintage shots from days gone by!

On the background of the hat Russian VAZ cars on display (licenced by Fiat)...
...yes, there are cars on the picture as well...

 

Nice 59 wagon

 

What a weird coincidence.

There's a "Fred Meijer" store chain here in Michigan.

A discount chain, biggest in the state nowadays. The pic of the newest one is across the street from where I built a lot of houses.

 

Chain fall from an overheaed beam to the rear bumper? Gary

 

Prefer this shot to the one of the couple shoveling snow!

 

My Dad in 1949. He is still in great health at 85. But not riding H. D.s anymore. Ron...

 

Helena Drag Strip. Pictured above are, left to right, Paul Contorno and Glen Houser with their 1953 Studebaker Commander in late 1963 at the Helena Drag Strip.

 

It's already been discussed... there are/were lifts that had two cylinders that operated independently. We had them where I used to work, you'd work levers on the floor with your feet to control them. It got interesting when someone wasn't paying attention and one end would rise/fall faster than the other.

Anywhos, you could lift the car, put stands under it, then drop that cylinder down if you needed access to something.

 

Look at how they are dressed!

I kept both my Mom & my Dad's plaid wool hunting coats (Mom's was green, Dad's was red) for years until the moths decimated them.

So anyway, my high school years were the late 60s, and that's when we all had to have "ski jackets". Nylon shell and dacron or down filled - depending on whether your parents took you shopping at Hudsons or KMarts.

Most of us didn't ski - but we had to have those really cool coats.

Went through that with Levi jackets and bomber jackets too as I recall.

Now its hoodies and baggy shorts.

What's the world coming to?!

 

Snake!

 

Larry Storch headlining....big time!

 

That makes sense. I guess I never saw one of the two post lifts, just the center lift units. I can imagine when you went to bleed air to lower, if one had a problem it could get really interesting!

 

I worked in a shop years ago that had a two post lift. Never had any problems all the time I worked there. It was just a little tricky to run them up and down evenly at the same time. It was the bay we used for transmission jobs when we had them.

 

Yeah…. That’s what I was imagining.