Vintage shots from days gone by!

No wonder Studebaker went belly-up. All the other car companys would have beautiful women in sexy clothing to attract people (men) to their cars. And this was Studebakers idea .....

 

A little known fact that "Dart Ward" stage name, gave up his opportunity to make that flight as he was sick. He had Richie Vallens guitar until just a few years ago. His real name............................................ Jerry Mack and lives now in Bend, Oregon

Mike

 

Horse-drawn wagons line the narrow street in front of New Orleans' French Market, Jan. 1915

 

Hmmmm! Now, I think I'll go invent microwave popcorn!

 

No, dummy! I said the BIG ax!

 

Perhaps some more of Babe Ruth's efforts on behalf of orphans?

 

Ahh- The Babe, What a chick magnet.

 

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did your old man use the vacuum cleaner to flock the tree and the snowman?

 

that looks like it is in the avenues

 

I don't think this has been posted. When I was a kid, these were still
everywhere! I never knew who any of the manufacturers were, though.
I guess I thought they ALL came from the factory with visors. BTW, does
it say Silver Streak on the fender script???

 

Oops, finally figured out it's "Special Deluxe." SORRY!

 

James Dean R.I.P.

The Little Bastard

The most famous race car that never raced.

Little Bastard's engine Specifications:

Engine: Ernst Furhmann 547

Type: Four-Overhead-Cam flat four-cylinder with

horizontally opposed pistons.

Dispacement: 1498cc 90 brake horsepower @

6200 RPMs, 125-135 peak horsepower @ 8,000 RPMs

Gearbox: 5-speed manual

Chassis: Tubular with torsion-bar suspension

Top speed: 150 miles per hour

 

Two reminders to drive safely over the holiday.

 

The Eagles Aerobatic Team
Tom Poberezny, of EAA fame
Gene Soucy, still at it aerobatically speaking
Charlie Hillard, R.I.P. A great loss for all

 

Walter Extra, in Germany, with the first Extra 230. This aicraft was sold to Clint McHenry, Pompano Air Center. In the second photo we repainted it for Clint. PAC become the world's first and largest Extra dealer/distributor. After a brief period of time, the Extra factory developed slightly larger two seaters and went to to become FAA (LBA) certified.

 

1968, sitting on the back of my MGA infront of the pool hall in downtown Waukomis OK. Momma would be soooo proud.

 

You're correct! Geary at 39th Avenue looking in toward the city (away from the beach). The Outer Richmond District

 

Rusting away near Barstow, 1967. Were bodies like these common back then?

 

Twin-Rod and Custom used to run a feature called Vintage Tin back then.Lots of current, to that time, shots of bodies,cars,etc.The cleanup squads and scrappers certainly have reduced the amounts.In the fifties and even sixties in rural areas of Michigan old stuff was quite common.Those days are gone now! This particuliar body resembles a 32 Ford five window but it's another make.

 

London, 1963 (not quite as hot as rock n roll).

 

More cap guns and BB guns, a rite of passage (are cap guns even made now?).

 

my dad and mom with dads 35 chevy. circa 78


my brother and i riding in the back of the 35 in lawn chairs. on our way to the western streetrod nationals in bakersfield. cant get away with that anymore...


mom pregnant with me in 72 with dads manx...

 

If Christmas is game, I'm in, literally in these pictures, receiving a Rathman race car for Christmas that year. Never better!
And the other one is age 1 with my very first "car", a streamliner!

My mother gave both away when I "got too old for them" of course.

 

Not past Thanksgiving yet but someone already started before me.

Here is my brother. HA HA

 

Q: Rusting away near Barstow, 1967. Were bodies like these
common back then?

A: In a word, YES. The sad thing is that guys at the junkyards
would mostly consider this TOO far gone and just scrap it on
out if they got one like this! One of my best friends helped his
dad run a yard. He lived in the country and had over 20 cars
he'd saved to work with, in way better shape, so he'd just
shake his head and put 'er in the crusher. His brother had a
gas station and kept a fine Deuce 5W. They were car guys,
but back then availability wasn't much of a problem.

 

yup.....a guy came into the gas station I worked at in 1967 when I was in high school. He knew I liked old cars because my Model A panel was always parked out front. He asked if I wanted his old car he no longer wanted for free. I said sure and my boss let me store it behind the gas station.
It was a '34 five window, boxed frame, Olds rear end...no front end or motor.
I didn't know what to do with it so I gave it to a friend. Then he gave it to some other guy. Nobody seemed to want to keep it. ????