Vintage shots from days gone by!

Dean Johnson?

 

Francis Albert Sinatra

 

I was just going to post that. Good catch.
chuck

 

It's Marilyn, an earlier picture than most you see.

Sorry for the big pictures but make youself a "mole map" of MM's chest and you'll see it's her.

MM 1947


MM 1950

 

JOEY CHITTWOOD practicing for CULVER CITY between feature racing!!

 

"Be verrry verrry quiet, we're hunting wabbits!"

 

It's Marilyn, one of her pre-"blonde bombshell" photos from the late 40s. IMO, much more natural looking than after she was made over into the likeness that most remember.

Here's a few early shots of MM, also probly from the late 40s:

 

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What became of the talented guys who painted planes with "nose art" like this? Some had to be into cars...

 

I was just thinking about a 37 Lincoln Zephyr not ten minutes ago while post of my youth and stock cars in the 60-70s modified thread and I recall my dear old Dad and the time when I was 15 and had a chance to buy a running and in perfect shape 37 for 35 bucks and a promise not to cut it up. I was 15 and it was 1965.

The car had some smokey glass, especially in the rear quarter windows and it needed new ignition wires but, she ran and ran well.

So I go home and tell my father of this great find and he says, no, you are not bring home any more garbage. I had brought home a 54 2 dr Monteray sedan. and it was real POS but, myself and my friend did some job on it considering it was our first attempt. I ended up selling it not long afterwards, I had a friend in another town over that kept bugging me to buy the car. He was the one that taught me how to dislodge the Foxcraft linkage, LOL. Some of you know what I am speaking of.

Years later my father told me, (now this is after all the rods and stuff), You know son, you never listened to me, the one time you did listen to me, you shouldn't have! You should have bought that car and drug it home.

By that time he had seen where my heart was with cars and what I could do with them and a little help from my friends.

I know this is not a 1937 for those that are critics and like to point things out so they can show how smart they are. They don't impress me.
But, I do learn something new here on this thread, EVERYDAY! Thank you all for posting, not only the photos but the stories and facts behind them.
The grumblers should just be ignored, Peroid. If you pay them no heed then there is no fuel for the fire. It takes two to tango. Let them cry in their own crying towels.

 

a non-vintage photo of a very vintage race track...outside of Barcelona

got banking?



not certain of this location, but it must have been a place of some wild racing

 

Stiges-Terramar Spain
http://users.telenet.be/les.consultants.bvba1/sitges/

 

Well if you really want to get technically, no that is not Marilyn Monroe, but by birth that is Norma Jeane Mortenson or her baptised name, Norma Jeane Baker, which later she became Marilyn Monroe when she started getting famous. I am a Marilyn fan and have been most of my life. That picture she is Norma Jeane, that was taken before the Marilyn years. How I know this, is because I have a book of pictures of her and that picture is listed, very early 50's.

 

Who did this man in the used car or auction lot work for ??

 

Ebony magazine

 

New cars in transit - Soo Locks.

 

Black Book. Mazooma, you kill me, man, as always. LOL!

And, also, I agree with the final paragraph of RandomRodder's Post #12,185.

 

Frank "The Monsterman" Mundus, started shark
fishing in 1951 out of Montauk, NY. Unofficially, he
was the model for Robert's Shaw's "Quint" boat
captain character in the Peter Benchley novel, Jaws.
Mundus' own biggest shark as a 4,500-pounder in
1964 (the toothy fish above is a later, smaller
specimen). The colorful "Crickett II" skipper passed
on in 2008 at 82. This photo is THANKS to BoatTest.com!

 

Hooked then harpooned by Cuban fishermen in 1945, this is thought
by many to be the biggest reliably measured Great White Shark taken
by man, at 21 feet and over 7,000 pounds. A vacationing French journ-
alist witnessed the weighing and measurement and took these photos.
The six poor fishermen lived in the shanty town of Cojimar, the setting
for Hemingway's "The Old man and the Sea." Once hooked, the Great
White was making a steady meal out of the 14-foot skiff's rudder and
stern, spurring the alarmed men to prep the harpoon as fast as possible.
The whole story is at www.jawshark.com/great_white.

 

Two examples of fossil jaws of Carcharodon Megalodon, the largest
carnivorous shark ever to live in the oceans of planet Earth. If a large
Great White can bite off a 30-pond chunk of meat, HOW much could
this guy bite??? These sharks lived LONG after the dinosaurs died out,
and Megalodon itself only died out about 1.5 million years ago!
Pix are THANKS to fishinglures.com!

 

How long is the track?