Vintage shots from days gone by!

Does anybody know what's actually going on in these pics? They're checking something..but not sure what.

 

1947

 

"This would be easier if they just used their cell phones"

 

London

 

1949 Gregory Peck leaving La Jolla Playhouse

 

WTF please tell me what is happening here!!!

 

Not everyone likes dogs...

 

Looks to me they are installing an automatic lubrication system for the suspension components.
I still wouldn't work under that car in that position!
Never seen anything like that!

 

Never mind all the fluids going forward (and down on the floor). Shades of Vega...

 

Automatic greasing system?

 

As it turns out.
Lincoln/Mercury offered a multi-luber option in that era. With the touch of a dash mounted*****on, it would lubricate all suspension fittings.
That has to be what this is.

wonder if it is a "dealer installed" option.

 

I think you are correct as to what they are doing. I am pretty sure that this was not an option on the '55 Lincoln shown(we bought a new one in '55 when I was a kid). It was an option on the '56's, possibly standard on the Premiere series. I wonder if this installation was either a prototype being installed on a '55 or a dealer retrofitting one of these systems for a customer.

 

Looks like Sunbeam Imps during the embryotic stage. I liked those cars, very competetive rallye/and Grp 2 circuit racers

 

"HEY!---Come back here!!---Where's my popcorn?---& don't forget the coke!!!

 

"I have this dream"---About a fun amusement park for all the family!!

 

"This is when your father said he was going to buy something practical like a Rambler wagon. Instead he brings this Hemi thing home. Made him return a week later; that will teach him."