Vintage shots from days gone by!

El Paso, 1939. Photo by Luis Marden- National Geographic

 

Alaska

 

Early Petty

 

Jay's Auto Repair



Provost & Powers

 

Syndicate Scuderia



Tom McEwen



Yeakel

 

Kentucky State Fairgrounds 1931


91 Bleiweiss Austin in front of Bardstown Road Pharmacy, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930.

 

Monza spider? for swi66

Calvin's Chevy out front

 

Yenkel

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YeAkel.....as in Yeakel Bros Chrysler Plymouth Dealership.

 

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Fixed it thanks

 

Ok Rootie its your turn

 

Calvin's Chevy out front View attachment 3950267


Not likely since he died in 1933. There goes your grade in History.

 

Well the car didn't die it is there as an exhibit

 

This photo requires a bit more explanation:
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Automobiles at a Lynwood wrecking yard are flattened for recycling in Japan, where materials are used in new cars.

An article in the Jan. 26, 1972, Los Angeles Times explained:
The first stage in a recycling process that converts wrecked American-made autos into shiny new imported cars is taking place in south-eastern Los Angeles County.
They come back in the form of new Datsuns and Suzukis.

Bill Ven Douris, general manager of the Scrap Disposal Co., said the firm shreds 500 cars a day for shipment. It is not only a good business, according to Ven Douris, it cleans up the landscape.

"It's an ecology thing, more or less," he said Tuesday in a Lynwood wrecking yard where he was forklifting about 100 old cars into a pressing machine. Only the tires are removed before the autos go in – glass, chrome, motor and all …

After pressing the cars, they are transported to San Diego, where they are fed into a shredding machine. ...


On a sweep through wrecking yards in the area, a San Diego firm is buying up old cars and crushing them on the spot into 15-inch-high metal packages before shredding them and shipping them to Japan.

 

This car is owned today by Ray Soff of New Jersey and in the picture it was a deep blue but now the car is a beautiful deep red.
Ray has owned the car for over 20 or 25 years but the original owner was Jimmy Karcher who built the car in Stamford Connecticut back in the late 50's or early 60's.
Jimbo

 

Great Balls of Fire was a Ganesha High School in Pomona Ca. shop project. Has been totally restored.

 

Garey High School
My Alma mater
I worked on that car a little during my senior year in 70/71.

 

Did you sand the front fender?

 

Yeah mate,apparently that was the first one!....https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/life...g/news-story/467a2af5ff28938374767422b2eb2bc6