VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Taken minutes before that lefty nailed a perfect line drive through the p***enger side windshield.
Please let me take this opportunity to apologize to all of my neighbors for my childhood.

 

I accept your apology, and let's see to it that it doesn't happen again young man.

 

Thanks swi66. That pic of poor guy lying in the snow putting on tire chains reminded me: today's July 1st so happy Canada Day, eh!
That pic explains why I moved South to warmer climate.

1 more pic, Rex Winter
Dry n windy Lubbock TX

 

That little DeSoto looks lowered already!

 

Hey Elmer....that ain't no wabbit!

 

The inspiration for Elmer Fudd. LOL.

 

That's not a dozer.
It's just a track laying Caterpillar tractor pulling what looks like a disc.
They work great on flat land too. Just ask any old time farmer from the flat central valley of California.
They also worked great with a s****er (called a Cat and a can) for leveling land. Believe it or not even flat land has to be leveled (graded) once in awhile
A dozer has a blade on the front.
One that old would be cable driven with an overhead frame (AKA headache bar) for the cables from the rear mounted winch to the blade.

BTW, the Caterpillar tractor was invented in the flat area of Stockton, Cal for farming the near by delta islands of peat.
The inventor(s) were the Holt Bros. later to become Stockton Wheel. Most hot rodders even today have heard of Stockton Wheel.
That may not be dead on accurate but it's close.

 

Thanks LewisLynn. I appreciate the clarification. I'm a little more knowledgeable now.

1 more car I promise, Rex Winter
Dry n windy Lubbock TX

 

Hey Dodger, note that it also is running "Bigs and Littles!" 1940!

 

Worlds tallest woman at that time 7' 7"

 

Olivia

 

Lake Lloyd..Daytona

 

The G****vine

 

1952

 

Thanks HEMIDAV! That is Dover Drag Strip. I've had this newspaper cutout since I was 10 years old. Bob

 

Where were you in 52?

 

The altered is my buddy George Hutcheson A.K.A. The Stone Age Man driving the original Rat Trap. The picture here is cropped, so you can't see the owner, Don Green, behind the car with his hands on his knees.

 

I was 15 years old and I had my 5 year old nephew with me standing against the fence leading on one of the those posts that held the fence up in 1964

Friends of mine were going so I begged a ride and then told them I had my sisters 5 year son coming with me.
My buddies said are you going to watch him all day and I said I sure would.

Jimbo