Vintage shots from days gone by!

Back in the days when his lion was just a baby!!!

Later shots show that the lion got big!

 

Something for everyone this Christmas...

 

BMW





1964 Roadrunner Concept car


1961 Plymouth Ghia concept




1960 Plymouth XRN concept car




Plymouth Turbine Special




1954 Oldsmobile F88 Experimental


1954 Buick Wildcat II concept car

 

'Zooma, any idea what year this Ply concept is? Sort of resembles
the Chrysler Plainsman concept of '56. Thanks for posting, bro!

 

Race car driver Carl Forberg and Richard Cott on the left (a sponsor?) with a big Offy on April 25, 1952.

 

weird...the guy on the left looks like a drawing...

 

Thanks AGAIN, Mazooma! I've been an Elvis appreciater since I first
heard him sing "Heartbreak Hotel" on AM radio in summer '56, then
saw him on Ed Sullivan. But I NEVER saw this promo pic before. Keen.

Since his career really fell into three distinct phases, tons of people
today don't realize what a revolutionary talent he was at 21 when he
exploded onto the national radar screen. To appreciate that, one only
has to realize that the music scene consisted of the fading Big-Band
and Swing eras, "Your Hit Parade" on radio with the likes of Perry Como
and the Maguire Sisters, plus country/western acts like Tex Ritter and
Jean Shepherd. Suddenly the hip-shakin' Tennesseean upset the apple
cart of what constituted popular music up to 1956 !!!

 

Not being a dick, I really appreciate your posts, Mazooma, but that's a 57-58 Eldorado Brougham, not a 54.

 

Uh oh, now you've done it.
Watch out for the grapefruits

 

You're right.....you know all those numbers and letters gibberish that are on your screen when you post a photo?


this is what it says:
IMG-http://189/a;bums/z72/number%20two%20and/Cadillac-Eldorado_1954_800x600_wallpaper_01.jpg


this is what was on that photo ID gibberish, so I was wrongly going by that info.
Sometimes that's all I have, so I go with it.
But I should have known better on the Caddy....
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Mmmmm, grapefruit.......INCOMING!

 

Buick concept car Wildcat, it says 1954(?)








Ford concept


Alberto Ascari, Lancia at Monza...your head is your roll bar !


Plymouth Explorer concept


Plymouth Belmont concept


GM Firebird concept




primitive way to get on a plane, but it works.
Ladies...Note to self..."wear clean underwear"

 

There's something you won't see again...a stationery store, Ames, Iowa



a casket as a Christmas gift?...now that's just rude !











Nuvolari in an Alfa at Monza


Sir Sterling Moss at Monaco



Juan Manual Fangio at Monza in a Mercedes

 

Does'nt he look like a dork with those 50's glasses?? It's a press photo and a lot of the ones I have found and posted have been touched up to make them sharper when they end up in a newspaper.....

 

I'll not apologize for disliking pieces of shit garbage trucks.
Kindly do a search of my posts and you'll find that I'm complimentary the vast majority of times, I was nice on this occasion too, keep needling me if it makes you feel better.

Have a nice day.

 

a young Joan Collins







Fiat Turbina concept car


OH, MY!







Audrey Hepburn








I worked in a gas station after school in 1967 and a guy used to come in all the time for gas in one of these Gullwings. He's beat the crap out of it and never wash it. It was always fllthy. He kept saying that he couldn't wait to save enough money to buy a new car.


a soda jerk...no offense...Ames, Iowa

 

I was thinking the same thing.

 

Getting close to the end of the work week. Schlitz or champagne?

 

Completely weird, he looks like one of the ghost heads that are singing in the Haunted Mansion at Disney!

 

yes you are, sir, yes you are















Lemans 1955

 

and they all drove home.....

 

My apologies for the Schlitz lady... To make up for that, here are a couple (more) of Miss Bardot at drink time.

 

"Hi ladies, whatcha doin?"

 

You owe me a keyboard.

 

ah, an airline stewardess with a smoke and a coffee cup on her head...looks like she's had a few too many hard landings