Vintage shots from days gone by!

http://www.examiner.com/corvette-in...24-hours-of-lemans-a-look-back-after-50-years

 

http://www.sportscardigest.com/chevrolet-honors-corvette-le-mans-50th-anniversary/

 

http://dicklang.blogspot.com/

 

http://wot.motortrend.com/6521005/a...-americas-original-corvette-show/photo_5.html

 

I'm kinda over this thread now.
Last 10 pages .. too many roundy round race car types.
Was good wnen we had pre '60 old nice shots.
Corvettes etc.. no thanks..

 

http://jerrygarrett.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/a-father-son-story-for-the-24-hours-of-le-mans/



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/automobiles/06LEMANS.html



http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?showtopic=119979

 

http://www.streetlegaltv.com/forum/lowrider-corvette-1960-a-4284.html

 

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009/11/23/retrospective-gt-gt-the-first-drop-x-sonic.aspx

 

http://www.corvettefever.com/featur...60_corvette_full_circle_feature/photo_02.html

 

http://sandoandsando.blogspot.com/2010/07/case-of-missing-ford-super-coachsolved.html

 

George S. Patton, Jr., commander, 3rd Army USA



These photos are THANKS to Car-Accidents.com.

 

'39 Caddy Model 75 limo in which Gen. George Patton
is alleged to have received ultimately fatal injuries.

 

Broderick Crawford with his Highway
Patrol canine partner, Chopper!
("Choppy! Sic balls!" LOL)

 

that's not Brodrick Crawford

 

I was thinkin that too,

 

Nope, not B. Crawford. Besides, he drove, on the show, Buicks. Rather doubt he'd be featured in a advertizment for another make.

 

I clicked on the link below the picture and I was in heaven(I'm usually in hell)..thank you for that info

 

I'll never get over this thread because you never know what's going to pop up next.

 

Fab shot of an LST at Normandy, June 1944. Though these ships
were specially built with shallow draft for beach-landing of tanks
(with the tanks fired up in the hold!), they could haul a ton of OTHER
crap, too, when circumstances called for it. These photos are
THANKS to the General George Patton Museum, Fort Knox, Kentucky.




The LST building at Fort Knox, KY, where the problem of warming
up tanks in an LST's hold were overcome with a special ventilation
system. Betcha Hilter didn't think we could pull this off! (Used in
both WWII theaters of war, LSTs were not retired from military
service until 2002! WOW.)

 

Gotcha, Mazooma & NovaDude! And as a matter of fact, that's not
the real Chooper but his twin brother Hymie. Nyuk, nyuk. (The only
thing REAL there was the actual MoPar ad from '59, actually.)

 

Ad states ". . .star William Lundigan. . ." (the fine print - I'm almost too old to see it too )

 

Post pics that YOU like then! Make the thread better then by contributing, instead of "I'm kinda over this thread now" and "no thanks". The great thing about the HAMB and this thread is that you can change it by posting what you want!.

 

Hey, VintageRide. Sure have to agree with you. And, the "yeas" lately are drowning out "nays" like him.

Hell, yeah, we love old cars, especially hotrods built in the '40s-'60s mold. But we also dig the TIMES that frame our era of hotrodding. THIS is a broader thread, and it does just that. And it has relevance to 'rodding, or Ryan and his sharp-eyed editors would have yelled for us all to rein the scope in somewhat, right?


(Oh, and I seem to remember a LOT of 'vettes made '65 and earlier. Give my left you-know-what for a '63 split window coupe!!!! Oh, mama!)

 

Even President Kennedy remarked favorably on this car
(not something a chief exec normally does!). This beautiful
rendering is from "The Corvette Story" (www.webcars.com/corvette/1963.php).

 

Ya got 1929 and 1963. Ever notice, STYLE never goes out of style?

 

Among the best of 1933!

 

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Hey, GotGas. If you're out there, this one's for YOU!
Those tail light lenses look a yard high!

 

Last one. The Edsel may try some people's patience,
but it looks great in the rain here.

 

How about this Edsel Jimi'shemi..??

 

1934 Pierce-Arrow V-12. This CLASSY ad from the latter run of
this great make, thanks to a site SunRoofCord pointed out to me.