Vintage shots from days gone by!

I had a chemistry set I bought in the late 50's that had to be picked up @ a railway depot. It had pure sodium & potassium metal as well as magnesium ribbon for igniting ferrous metals to make crude steel. Needless to say, I almost burned the place up several times but what a lot of fun it was. Today, none of the chemicals are even available. With Potassium chlorate you could make any king of firework imaginable.

 

Early 1900's.
Nice smooth ride no doubt.

 

1920 with a paintbrush.

 

Don't know when or where but check their expression.
Seem to be having a good time.
Lots of fun in simple stuff.
I wonder who took the picture.

 

That is such a great candid photo, you never see photos like this from that time period! You can see the love in their faces!

 

Yup, you are SO right, Paul! Back before the media took over most
people's minds, people knew simple pleasures at face value! Here,
Mom and Dad seem to have already taken turns at drenching
eachother, sparing Junior there who seems to enjoy the show.
Following are some of those ads Rod and I have talked about.



Smoking '53

 

Smoking 1963

 

Smoking 1977

 

Smoking 1942

 

Back then weren't most painted with a brush?

 

1942 DeSoto Cyclone concept by Alex Tremulis, above.
Below, artist's ad rendering of the production '42 DeSoto.

 

Love those hideaway head lights!

 

AMEN Brother!

 

"Love those hideaway head lights! "

It's too bad they didn't continue that headlight design on the 46-8 cars. I always thought that the Chryslers also looked like they were destined for the hideaway lights. The 46-8 Desoto/Chryslers looked to me like the fixed lights were an afterthought due to manufacturing economies. Those were certainly stout well-built cars if not exactly thrilling to drive. We had a '48 Chrysler sedan and I remember as a small child being fascinated by the speedometer lighting that changed colors as speed increased. It was a 6 and pretty sluggish compared to the competition. My dad traded it in on a new '50 Lincoln. The Lincoln was cool looking in my opinion, but he probably should have gotten a v8 Olds.

 

Don't let the feds see this pic, they will make the big 3 develop a sensor to eliminate the shift lever at the smell of alcohol, like this guys mama did!

 

"Pictured here in 1962 is Prince Michael, brother of the Duke of Kent, driving around London in a jalopy."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Now-Mr-Darlings-danger-joining-scrapyard.html

 

Worth a read: http://www.geist.com/files/images/jalopy_world-incamera-64-body.jpg?0

 

<CENTER>[SIZE=+2]1951 Williams Jalopy[/SIZE] </CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><CENTER>http://www.pinrepair.com/baseball/jalopy.htm</CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER>

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jZpOpk2MRS3yw3R9RX3h2w

Part of ths caption: Backyard of the house on Vernon Street, Signal Hill the car in forefront was the one my Uncle Rollie (Aunt Peggy's husband) used to race in the 1930's......

 

http://www.itsrv.com/nsra/gifs/jalopy15.gif

http://www.nsra.org.uk/newforum/showthread.php?t=33884&page=2

 

http://www.davemelton.net/Austin Seven .jpg

 

http://www.uwstout.edu/history/wintergallery.cfm

 

http://speedy1.smugmug.com/Racing-t...acing-1965-1968/6463966_WFxVq#410014552_Ycvwt

 

http://clunkbucket.com/full-race-jalopy/

 

http://www.lincolnheightsla.com/stadium/

 

http://www.stillrunnin.com/assets/U...Image400322-jalopy-showdown-vintage-photo.jpg

 

http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/guestcolumnists/richardscorner/08bobfalcon/

 

http://www.misschicken.com/Updates.htm