Vintage shots from days gone by!

1956 Flying Tigers
Connie Kalitta's aviation service





#31 is the Novi Air Conditioning Special

 

Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie,
shortly before their assassination, Sunday, June 28, 1914, in
Sarajevo, Serbia. Each was mortally wounded by a single bullet,
though five shots were fired. Europe was already a political
tinderbox, this event promulgated World War I, costing millions
of lives -- some say, squandering or blighting virtually an
entire generation of young life around Europe at large.
Hence the expression "the Lost Generation." Sincere THANKS
to the UK site spactacus.schoolnet!



The 1911 Graft & Stift phaeton in which Ferdinand and Sophie
were mortally wounded. THANKS is due the WikiMedia
Commons Project! This photo was taken in a Vienne, Austria,
museum in 2003; please let me know if that is too new to
appear on this thread.


The couple depart Sarajevo City Hall,
having survived a bomb attempt already.
Shortly, they would be dead. Photo
THANKS to WorldWar1.com!

 

1923






1979

 

Stalin's 1934 Packard 12:



BTW, Johnny Cash


was, I believe, because of the work he was doing in the US military, the first person, outside of Russia, to learn of Stalin's death.

 

A ZIS 115, 1946, the first armour plated car used by the "not-so-equal" Russians

 

Stalin's 1949 ZIS 110:

 

A Russian ZIS 101:

 

A Russian Chaika GAZ 13:

 

A Russian GAZ A model:

 

A Russian GAZ M1:

 

Russian 1934 GAZ Aero prototype:

 

Russian GAZ TSAKS:

 

Russian 1938 GAZ GL-1, could do 150kph:

 

with further modification the GAZ GL-1 could reach 162kph:

 

The 1951 GAZ POBJEDA Sport:

 

The GAZ Torpedo, used durallium skeleton, and could reach 190kph:

 

1954 GAZ turbo jet prototype (MIG 17 power):