Vintage shots from days gone by!

Damn! Just when I was starting to believe that the Japanese were hiding zeros in Sweden during the war

 

A Centurion that went through the ice in a swamp
nearby the airfield in 1954 they worked five days
to recover it

 

forgot the pic

 

This is built on a truck chassis from White vintage 1922 and the huge body built by Smith & Waddington in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
But this body type is called a Charabanc, the same name is also used for buses with open bodywork that was common at this time. This White charabanc had room for 15 people and had been ordered by Mr Day. He used it for New South Wales Tourist Bureau excursions and adventures in the wild Australia.

 

1922 Ley

 

This is a modern body recreation of the one-off A.L.F.A. specially made in 1913 by Carrozzeria Castagna for Count Ricotti. In fact was an standard car model Tipo 40/60 hidden inside an enveloping aero shell.
Soon later on, the body was reviewed to have the half top section removable.

The car resides in the worth visiting Alfa-Romeo Museum of Arese, near Milano.

 

XX Mille Miglia 1953. Alfa-Romeo 3000CM of Fangio /Sala, 2nd OA

 

Wow! My first American Flyer train set had the Royal Blue loco.

 

1953. Maiden speed testing for the Bisiluro Special in a deserted straight of Tona-Vic road. C. Fernandez chief tester and occasionaly race driver, at the wheel. The Roots- compressed DOHC V8 2.5 L is located in the centre, between the "torpedoes".

 

Sorry, no car photos today.....

 

From trainweb.org
I'll see your Royal Blue, and raise you a Hiawatha!

 

Raise the 20th Century Limited

 

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ALTERNATE CAPTION - "As early as 1920,
Bob made a good living delivering nitromethane
fuel in his snazzy new Henway truck to the
numerous drag strips around Podunk Oho!"

Mart3406
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How about a Pennsylvania RR Baldwin T1?

 

And while we're on this "train" of thought
- how about a whole flock of Canadian
National Railway's 6400-series streamlined
'Northerns'??!

Mart3406
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Cool, I used to be into trains until cars got in my way...I like the old 30's 'advanced streamline design'!

 

Southern Pacific's Cab Foreward, <TABLE><TBODY><TR><TH>Total Engine and Tender Weight</TH><TD align=right>977900 lbs</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>. 4-6-6-2.

 

Thanks for the train pics. I got to ride the Hiawathas for free when I was a kid by myself. My dad worked for the Milwaukee Road and had a pass for the family to use. Couldn't send a kid on AMTRAK these days.

 

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One more on those incredible 120-plus-mph
"absolutely Art Deco to the max" PRR Baldwin
TI streamliners. Here's a Pennsylvania Rail
Road ad, circa 1945, promoting them. Besides
the locomotive, note all the smoke, steam and
fire belching from the factories in the background.
This was an era when such things were considered
a sign of progress and economic prosperity and
for better or worse, you'll never, ever see an ad
like this published today.

Mart3406
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Reliance Trucks

 

Simplex

 

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My Father-in-Law. He's got his swag on in 1954.

The pic was taken while he was stationed at Fort Richardson in Alaska.

Check out that bumper hitch!! Looks safe ta me.

 

Great old truck pictures! This photo is the hairpin turn on the Mohawk Trail, North Adams Mass.

 

THANK YOU, sir! Cool pic, huh? -- Jimi