Vintage shots from days gone by!

Detroit 1951

 

Yale, Oklahoma. Wonder if they raced those wagons and how long before they were replaced by those new-fangled machines.

 

That is a Lincoln, not a Merc. It's a '53, one of the famous Mexican Road Race Lincolns. A few were wrecked during the race and it looks like this may have been one of them.

 

http://www.speedcarworld.com.au/default.asp?Page=Release&Id=6528

 

Arthur Wylie driving his Wylie car at the 1940 Rob Roy Hill Climb [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [1940]
photograph : gelatin silver : 16.6 x 21.8 cm.
Acknowledgement in publication/reproduction must be made to the Victorian Historic Racing Register Archive, State Library of Victoria.

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictures/0/0/1/doc/pi001222.shtml

 

Jack Brabham

Cooper - HRD

Mt Druitt Raceway

NSW

Queen Elizabeth's

Coronation Day

1953.



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http://www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_txt/16HRTM.HTM

 

Looks like this might be "HO Scale" racing?... I love that stuff... I've got an HO Scale drag strip in the house with all sorts of groovy accessories (timing tower, grandstands, snack bar, little people, etc) ... The only drag strip around these parts that doesn't have a curfew...


my daily drag racin' blog...
http://www.dragracingunderground.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=27

 

Did Arlo steal his act, too?

 

<DT class=collection_desc>"Description</DT><DD class=collection_desc>Informal portrait of artist, sculptor and poet Mrs. Grace Taylor (nee Furniss), wearing her Womans Land Army uniform. She is seated in a homemade racing car known as a Jitterbug, infront of a home in Brisbane. .................."</DD>
I am not familiar with the use of the term "Jitterbug" in relation to motor vehicles.

http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P04575.002

 

"Description
LAE BASE AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-12-27. VX146696 SAPPER L.F. HUNTER, 13TH WORKSHOPS AND PARK COMPANY, WITH A MODEL RACING CAR HE IS MAKING IN HIS SPARE TIME FROM SCRAP."

http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/077806

 

Here's a shot of Harry for comparison.

 

In this case I'll consider it not theft but a father-to-son transfer.

 

I believe the gentleman on Henry's right is Henry II.

 

Here is an interesting article about the Bennett-Ford relationship.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,859406-1,00.html

 

Awesome shot posted by HAMBer Silhouettes on the "Lost Drive-In Restaurants" thread.

 

Times and ways, largely now in the past. But good pix make for good memories. Thanks, Silhouette!

 

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Woody Guthrie. You know, the guy Bob Dylan swiped his act from.
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Did Arlo steal his act, too?
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UNCLEE!!!!!

Jimi: Actually, both POVs have some validity, IMO. Robt. Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan) was, as a young man, a big admirer of Woody Guthrie's style and messages of dissatisfaction with the status quo. He went several times to visit Woody in the hospital in his final months, seeking Woody's advice and guidance. Bob said Woody was pretty hard on him at times, and maybe that gave Bob the impetus to put some more "bite" into his own music and lyrics. While I'm not a fan of Dylan in his more narcissistic moments, his early music helped define the '60s, and his contributions to the Traveling Wilburys were indispensable. Arlo -- like Hank Williams, Jr. -- just carried on a "Family Tradition." Arlo, however, has always exhibited more of a sense of humor than his dad, and I'm glad.

 

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I believe the gentleman on Henry's right is Henry II.
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No excuses. I was fooled by the similaritiy. Anyway, some of the folk Henry surrounded himself with were pretty interesting. Some of Harry's behavior was pretty eccentric. Good item on him, too, on Wikipedia.

I swear the back stories are as interesting as the PHOTOS we post on this thread! Anybody who doen't mind reading a bit would surely find it worthwhile to follow some of the links guys and gals post! In point of fact:

(Read THIS TIME magazine article, and you won't know whether to hate or pity Bennett! LOL. No matter WHO you were, sounds as though working for Henry Ford was quite a trip!)

 

Enduring the summer heat by cooking out in the backyard.

 

Eeeek!!!
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....And paid thug, Harry Bennett was certainly
no 'gentleman'!

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Well, he was tough. And from what I've read, he functioned pretty much as Henry's body guard, enforcer, general "security" super and monitor of "internal intelligence." I can't imagine why Edsel's widow pressured Henry to turn over control of the company (albiet, briefly) to somebody with no real business skills.

Maybe it explains why the president of the United States got his own operatives involved, insuring that Henry II was rapidly and honorably dismissed from U.S. Navy duty and brought in to keep FoMoCo on keel (since, in '45, they were an important military supplier).

 

Looks like a house made of bottles. Location, anyone?