Vintage shots from days gone by!

Streamlining

 

The worlds most beautiful woman, Miss Veronica Lake.
From the movie 'I married a witch' (1946).



Doc.

 

DAMM 59 cents a gallon whats it coming to!

 

MMMM Nice find.

 

Milton Reeves tried this high-profile -- though failing -- experiment in 1911 and 1912, based on an Overland, then a Stutz. No one was buying, though.



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Quote BobW: Two Horse Power



Jimi: Darn right, Bob. And, not only does that youngster have a good pair of horses, he has a great touch, too. Just look at how clean and straight the three of them are plowing that furrow!

 

NovaDude55: THANKS for posting this, buddy! At first, I too mistook it for a McQuay or something by Martin. But it really IS different, isn't it??? I love it when these lost one-off cars turn up!!! Now, if somebody could find the lost Bremac, made in Sidney, Ohio!

 

Yo, Dog. Didn't Tim Flock actually win a NASCAR-sanctioned
race in one of these about '55???

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Pratt-Whitney radial Double-Wasp???

Originally Posted by wingnutz
Being a backyard mechanic got you this job during the War!

 

That looks like a single row powerplant by the positioning of the cooling gills. I would say its a B-17 so they would be Wright R-1820-97 Cyclones.

Doc.

 

B17 it is...!

Notice the guy with the cleanest boots gets to push the engine around!

 

THANKS, guys! (And that was funny RE the CLEANEST BOOTS!)

 

Actress Carolyn Komant in public awareness role of Miss Safety Check for the city of Burbank, 1961.

 

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Nancy had perfected the "look" and could move like no other living thing on the face of the Earth. While her voice was anything but strong, it was (to say the least) sultry & sentuous. The look from her eyes would reduce men to dust.

In the grand scheme of things, it was her producer-song writer extrodinaire Lee Hazelwood that put her on the map more so than her last name.

Check her out @:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbadg5BAb1E&feature=related
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQiDs9tKZv4&feature=related

 

No photo, but an article from The Brisbane Courier, Tuesday, 27 December 1932:

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22010626/1691668?zoomLevel=3

 

Elvis and a Messerschmitt:




Elvis and Rolls:



Elvis and BMW 507:



Elvis and Isetta:





Elvis and Jeep:










1971 in a Pantera:

 

BMW