Vintage shots from days gone by!

1959 CL-13 Mk-5 .

 

Lancaster MK-10

 

Havards

 

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Actually, Canada entered the war in Sept. 1939,
at the same time as Britain and Canadian pilots
fought in the Battle of Britain as members of the
RCAF, rather than as 'volunteers' in the RAF.
Some U.S citizens did volunteer for service in both
the RAF and RCAF, prior to the U.S entry into the
war in Dec. 1941 though.

Mart3406
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Wow some neat pictures wish i was able to tell where some of the pictures were taken.......

 

Now I have a reason to go to Mom's house with my daughter, drag out the old pics and fire up the scanner!!

My grandmother took a lllooootttt of pics, so I should be able to help keep this one going!

 

Too many pages of planes now.
Where's all the old car pics gone..

 

Just as long as the pics of planes are prop planes and no jets I will be happy,next time there is some documentary of WW2 and you can hear those planes waiting to take off listen to the motors as they sound very healthy like a hopped up car motor.

 

Hope I did not post this already.

 

I have no problems with plane photos. The title of this thread says nothing which limits it to cars. I love the whole thing.

 

I agree 100%

BB

 

EH Holden Production line GMH 1963

 

Oh man, those big radials are awesome to hear.

 

Better than the job you would've got for being a backwoods marksman...IMO.

 

We've still got 2 of these.

 

Nothing against planes ... Especially prop planes.
But I thought since this is for "
Spreading the gospel of traditional hot rods and customs to hoodlums world wide..."
that we would keep our wheels on the ground.

 

I recently watched a TV documentary on the ACFC. Fascinating stuff with interviews with some of those who participated.
Here's a link that will give a bit of an insight:
http://www.usaaf.net/ww2/airlift/airliftpg2.htm

 

There's photos of just about everything here, not just cars.
If you see something that doesn't interest you, keep scrolling until you do.
95% of what is on the mainboard doesn't interest me, but I still love looking on the HAMB for the stuff that does interest me.
Planes, bikes, lawnmowers, kitchen appliances from the past are all interesting to someone, as they are images of our past and our history.

Oh, and another thing....lots of "us" scour the internet and our own files for photos that would be of interest to other HAMBers. It takes lots of time to search for and sometimes scan and edit images...lots of time.
We live in a Country and a culture where lots of people want to be "handed" entertainment and then they still aren't happy.

Some advice that I have used all my life and it's worked well for me:
If I don't like something, I change it. If I want more of something, I search it out. I share what I have with those who would enjoy "it", whatever "it" is.
I've never found success at anything by waiting for success to find me.



Big Willie Robinson.....a legend in drag racing lore...




The next four photos are ones that I got the negatives to out of a trash bin in 1972 next to a photographers shop that was being moved out of because he was retiring.
I ended up with a whole Volkswagon backseat full of boxes of 8X10" negatives from the 20's-40's that I still have....440 of them. They are all from the Los Angeles area.

"one man's junk is another man's treasure"



Packard dealership on Santa Monica Blvd., now a Mercedes dealer.





This one, I gave to the restoration department manager at the Nethercutt Museum last year. They had never seen it before. Merle Norman Cosmetics is the company founded by Nethercutt who's fortune built and still maintains the wonderful Nethercutt Museum north of Los Angeles a few miles. Its is still free to the public to visit, just as he intended it to be many years ago.
You need to visit it if you are every in L.A.

http://nethercuttcollection.org/