VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

American soldiers headed to Oran, Algeria during Operation Torch, 1942.

 

Not fuel injected. That line for '57 has a script that says "Chevrolet" in that position

 

To the left is an M4 of the 707th Tank Battalion which was supporting the 110th Infantry, and to the right is a knocked-out German StuG III****ault gun. Linea Gotica . Gothic Line.

 

Couple of Harry Miller shots










Miller adjusting a car (in a rather dressed up fashion)

 

Wood and Johhnson in Miss America X. The big boat was powered by four 1800-horsepower, 12-cylinder Packard engines . The boat smashed the world speed record in 1932, becoming the first to go over two miles a minute. (Detroit News Archives)

 

’27 T roadster powered by a blown ’37 Cord V-8 by Lycoming.

He had to run the engine backwards to get the rear drive to work.

 

Dipping the tanks….every night 10 minutes before closing.

 

Nice shot.

 

I wonder if that’s a Virginia Slim between her fingers?

 

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The happiest man in China.


This picture was taken in 1901.

 

Storefronts on Woodward, 1917. (Detroit News Archives)