Vintage shots from days gone by!

'52 DeSoto

 

The newsboy makes this pic!

 

This one reminds me so much of how most filling stations looked
when I was a kid!

 

'58 DeSoto Fireflite promo kid's car. VERY rare nowadays!

 

I think this shot is from Brazil. But what it is baffles me! Maybe
a German-made Zeppelin company?) public transit on a Dodge
chassis??? Anybody know anything for sure about it?

 

Looks like an early '58 or 59 newspaper ad.
Check some of these prices!!!

 

Actually it is called a Firemite. I have two of them in the garage and yes they are very rare.

 

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Hey, Roadkill. Good to see you weigh in on that one. Considering how FRAGILE these "toy" cars were, it's amazing any survive at all! BTW, did they pedal or use "Flintstone" power?

 

This is what happens when you let a "red shirt" (ordy) make something for his kid! Gary

 

Some from my collection...

 

Thanks Harms. She was a beauty! I want to touch her fuzzy T-Bird.

 

I guess you could call it pedal since there is a gas pedal and a brake pedal. The motor is a 2-HP Briggs 6B motor with working headlights and taillights.

One of my bodies is the original vacuum formed plastic that was notoriously fragile and the other is fiberglass that was made by Robel to replace the frail plastic bodies.

 

The one car that stands out from the rest is that '49 Merc up on the left.
Cool Stuff!!!

 

The E-Trade baby made some good investments and got him a racer!

 

for me its that big old classic workhorse dump truck, 41-46 chevy in the upper left..

 

If traffic looked like this everyday there would be no more road rage!!!

 

the two coupes on the left were what caught my eye, but there are other gems too.
And just think, not one has discs, radials or alternator!

Mart

 

1935 and 1936 Fiat --

 

GLAD everybody liked the traffic pic on #12,574! There's ONE car that has me puzzled, though, being from the rear. I'm guessing immediate post-war Hudson. See the black car FOURTH-UP, second row from the right?

Hudson, or did I miss by a mile???

 

I was going to say a caddy

 

'47-ish Cadillac fastback for certain.

The only Hudson product in the entire picture is the elephant-wide 38 or 39 sedan in the extreme upper right of the photo.

 

There's a late forties sedan right in front of the truck, far left.

 

It was chilly this morning at 6:30 when I went outside,.... It wont be long now !

 

Soooo,... how does a cable knit sweater and a hot cup of Coffee sound ?

 

Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times," 1936, THANKS
to imbd, InternetMovieDateBase!