Vintage shots from days gone by!

Thought this might be London, or another big city in the UK but aparrently it's in Capetown, South Africa.

 

I think that grille shell is from a '28 or '29 Whippet looks similar to the one i've got

 

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<FIGURE> <FIGCAPTION>Two women admire a 1947 Chrysler Town & Country convertible car in Marseille. Photograph: Maurice Ambler/Getty Images.

 

1942

 

James bond (Sean Connery) in his Sunbeam Alpine rental. (Just not quite as good as some photos of Alpines):

 

1923 Denver, CO

 

somewhere in TX

 

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Man! Check out that 'undercarriage'!!!
(On the Packard, I mean! What were
you thinking I meant???)

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I have looked this pic over as best I can, and here's what I think. 65 Chevy with an earlier 409 , remains of a standard transmission bellhousing bolted to the block.

I blew the pic up and what I first thought was the early PG adapter plate looks the remains of an early cast iron bellhousing that probably had a clutch-flywheel explosion, 348s had the dip stick on the drivers side like a 283 while the 409s had the dip stick on the passenger side of the engine .

 

how about some "auto polo"????

 

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Dog427, yet again, you are awesome, man! Cool car,
but this one's unusual (at least to my eyes). Anybody
know what that grille shell is telling us? I see a greyhound
the says Ford product, but the grille isn't Ford, is it?
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I think that grille shell is from a '28 or '29 Whippet looks similar to the one i've got
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Many THANKS, 62DragFalcon! I LOVE the car, but that grille was pretty unusual, and I couldn't place it! Still, wasn't it GREAT when a young guy could go to junkyards and just SHOP for things and put together a hotrod??? I guess THAT was the heart of TRAD, eh??? First, guys had to experiment with what a hotrod really should be.

 

I could'nt agree more. back then there was no formula for what a hot rod should be. the cars were built not as a representation of a trend but a reflection of the ingenuity and skill of the man building it.