VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Git some!....

 

that's because the elephants would start stampeding the home!

 

I miss the days of seeing downtown and the strip like this…

 

Thanks for the interesting story about Troy, the model he is holding is a McCoy gas powered "Hot Rod" tether car.
I'm guessing about 1947-48.

Mick

 

Seeing the magic L79 on the end option make my heart skip a beat. In 1965 I went to Hessel Chevrolet in El Segundo and talked to the fleet sales about ordering one. (I went to HS with Vic Hessel the owners son) I had just gotten a full time job at Standard Oil of California in the Baldwin Hills oil field. I was too late in the year and had seen photos of the 66 and didn’t want one of those…Still the perfect car I wanted to own.

 

Cadillac and hydramatic.

 

Little Old Lady From Pasadena?

 

You are correct Jimmy, Vegas used to be quite the place until it was turned into Disneyland under martial law.

 

Hey, check the ride over your shoulder. Irony

 

My parents lived in Vegas when I came home for Christmas leave with orders to Viet Nam.
I was 19.
I would put on my uniform and go to the strip every night. No one ever said a word. I would even sit at the bar. I used to catch the Don Rickles lounge act at The Sahara almost every night.
One night really late I was in the Sahara coffee shop at the counter. Behind me was Frank Sinatra, Buddy Hackett, Joey Bishop and someone else, I think Peter Lawford, I don't remember.
The waitress came to me and said a person wishing to remain anonymous would like to buy you anything you want...Club sandwich and a shake. Thank you.

 

Thanks. Explains why I wasn't familiar with it.

 

Sorry girls you spoke too soon. Without naming specific parties I'll just say politics stopped and ruined Detroit.
Now they're working on California.

 

Back before Chevrolet offered anything big..a typical swap was to a Cadillac. That Cadillac going in that 56 might be a 354 or 364 fresh out of a wrecking yard. The 265 probably went to some hot rodder for his 20-30’s or even 40’s car.

 

Plus Jan and Dean.....

 

pussy galore

 

There was a 365 HP 327 cu.in in mid '60's, maybe he meant Horse Power.

 

Cadillac 365 cubic inch engine was produced in 1956 to 1958

 

There were some good choices back then:
354 Chrysler
364 Buick
371 Olds
365 Caddy
My friend put a '58 Buick 364" motor and 3 speed in a '57 Chevy 2dr sedan....it was a blast tearing up the streets after work every night in 1966.