Vintage shots from days gone by!

1000cc Blown Vincent

 

I see a Packard! 2nd from the left 2nd row.

 

My Grandpa on his Harley.

 

I see 69 Hyundai's, 31 Daewoo's, 11 Ssanyong's, 6 Daelim motorcycles and .........

 

http://www.historicroadways.co.uk/s-005.htm



http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/history/miscellaneous_articles/article10.html



http://www.scammellregister.co.uk/history-of-scammell.html

 

http://cycleguidemagazine.blogspot.com/2010/07/hollister-invasion-shot-seen-round.html

Then...





http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=526

 

The Flying Flea (Royal Enfield)

http://rider-and-road.com/Timelines/Era4.htm

 

These old Christmas morning shots are great. Such simple toys. Ones that required you to actually do something . . . use your imagination and probably learn something in the process. It just doesn't seem the same to me today. I guess in fifty years someone looking at Christmas photos from 2010 will probablky feel the same way.

 

BMW



http://rider-and-road.com/Timelines/Era4.htm

 

Honda

http://rider-and-road.com/Timelines/Era4.htm

 

http://rider-and-road.com/Images/Triumph Distribution.jpg

 

http://rider-and-road.com/Timelines/Era4.htm

1959 "June 8th, John Penton rode a BMW R69 from New York to Los Angeles in 53 hours and 11 minutes, slashing over 24 hours from the previous record of 77 hours and 53 minutes set by Earl Robinson on a 45 cubic inch (740 cc) Harley-Davidson."

 

http://rider-and-road.com/Timelines/Era4.htm

1959 "On June 11, American Honda Motor Co, Inc. is incorporated as the first overseas subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., just eleven years after the company's inception as a small motorcycle manufacturer in Japan."

 

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/1950racing2.htm

 

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/1950racing3.htm

 

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/1950lemans.htm

 

Big hair at Christmas...

 

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