Vintage shots from days gone by!

That Hudson was parked for about 15 minutes in El Paso, TX. Be careful!

 

1952 Marietta, OH

 

Harvey Mushman

 

Seattle WA 1948

 

This thread has been incredible. I finally got through it in about 2 weeks. I don't have much to add, I have some old Pro Stock pics and some WWII plane pics. I was born in the mid 50s and remember so much of the stuff that I've seen. I'm looking forward to seeing more. Someone posted a pic of an F-82. I posted a couple that I had, including the production line. And who doesn't love a shot of a wheels up Grumpy launch.

 

Here's a couple of Corvette pics. And the 66 in the garage isn't for sale, they're gonna fix it up one day.

 

Found some more Grumpy pics. Here's a pic of some of the factory offerings in 61, I'm assuming this was taken in St. Louis since there is a railcar of Corvettes in the background.

 

And I love old Mopar drag cars. I also found an old pic of AA Dale Armstrong before he went on to bigger things as dragster driver and crew chief.

 

And a pic of Dyno Don in a 57 Corvette. I have no idea where this was taken or when, the other car looks like a 61 fuelie. I think Nicholson started racing the full size Chevys in 61 along with Jenkins and Strickler.

 

Pardon me while my hair just catches fire!

 

Brilliant!!!!

 

Anybody have an idea what the third car from the left is?

 

For awhile there I thought I had snuck that one through!

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ALTERNATE CAPTION: "Debuting a
full 50 years before Mercedes' so-called 'Smart
Car' even, Henway Motor Corporation's 'brand
new for 1958', 'super-ultra-sub-compact' model
- the all too aptly and unfortunately named,
'Cretinous Commuter' - was an attempt to
capture the lead of a supposed 'single-seater,
micro-commuter car'market niche, that in reality,
didn't even exist! In general too, the Henway
"CC" as it was sometimes referred to by industry
insiders, was deemed by the general motoring
public, to be just 'too over the top', 'too ridiculous',
'too impractical' and way 'too far ahead of it's time'
to ever catch on! Despite (or more likely, because
of) it's grotesque and 'uber-snazzy', scaled-down
Henway 'Big-Car' styling too, the total failure of
the 'one-year-only' '58 'Cretinous Commuter' to
gain any market acceptance whatsoever, far
exceeded even the famous and generally more
well known failures of the '55-'56 Packard and the
'58-'60 Edsel - and will go down in history as one
of the auto industry's greatest marketing disasters
of all time - and one that, at the time, very nearly
bankrupted HMC!!!"

Mart3406 ("Official Henway Motors
Corporate Historian And Archivist")
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Too big for an Austin/Bantam but kinda has that look?



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Good road building starts with a good grader. Here are a couple photos of Galien Graders from pulled versions to motorized.


This fully restored road grader can be pulled by horse team or tractor. It is parked in plain view at:

RC Construction Services, Inc.
2223 N. Locust Avenue
Rialto, CA 92377

It is a mile north of Old Route 66; one block north of the I-210 Fwy.

 

Bugatti & Bugatti 110P racing airplane, which I understand never flew. Wikipedia has the whole Bugatti story.

There is a fella near Tulsa making one from scratch he intends to fly.
Bugatti Project Bugatti 100P

And another at the EAA at Oshkosh, WI
This Bugatti Intends to Fly!

 

Vintage shots from days gone by!
NOT

 

Hopfrog, I'm sure everybody knows you meant well. But the whole thread has been about showing and discussing VINTAGE photos of vintage subjects. You've shown virtually NEW pix of vintage subjects.

No offense but, IMO, you should DELETE both of those posts. Given your obvious interest level, you'll locate something truly VINTAGE quickly, suitable to post. Thanks, bro.

Guys, gals, regulars and casual visitors: We've never (in my old memory anyway) defined at least a general, rough "cutoff" for what constitutes VINTAGE. (There seems to be no EARLY limit whatsoever, so that's no problem.)

Just thinking out loud here, how about we all treat CIRCA 1980 as the latest? Not chissled in stone, just a general timeframe -- "1980, give or take a little." That would make posted pix some 30 years old, at least.

Any thoughts -- or other suggestions?

 

I dunno, mixing shots taken using current materials is O K with me as long as it pertains to a vintage subject . scrubba

 

IMO...only if it's a "Then and now" comparison.