Vintage shots from days gone by!

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Flash flood in the desert outside Reno.
The need for a coast to coast highway is apparent

 

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one of only 15,000,000 ever built

 

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Flagman for the first Drag Race?

 

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Kicking azz on Pikes Peak





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Left behind.

 

I wonder if it ended up in Fort Worth? Down the street from where I work they used to have several of these in various stages of restoration..

 

I believe this was found during the building of the Autobahn in Germany so not much chance of it ending up states side but you never know........



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They used the Autobahn for runways in various places and that may explain the 262 found near the road. It probably became unserviceable and was thus pushed back into the trees. By early '45 the American and British fighters roamed the sky unopposed and strafed everything that even remotely looked like a target. Planes were pushed deep into the woods near roads and the Autobahn so that may explain this scene.

 

I don't know about the road bldg. part, but seeing a GI in the pic, I think this is just 1 of many planes that were abandoned by the Germans due to lack of fuel & no exper. pilots. By the time 1945 came, the Germans had to hide a lot of planes in wooded areas, altho, sometimes along roads that could be used as runways,
As to Ft. Worth, the "TEXAS AIRPLANE FACTORY" was formed by a Mr. Tischler & Mr. Snyder. The newly built planes were built from & plans copied from an original 262 from the Naval Air Station in Willow Grove, Pa.
For those interested, check "Me 262 Stormbird Rising by Hugh Morgan, page 172.
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Note that still has a towbar attached, so it did not crash there.

 

I never thought I would ever see the day I would be considered "Vintage", but it has arrived. This is me on my first "ride" in 1949.

 

At my great uncle's farm, I think the 40's.

 

If that poor bastard saw what we pay for gas today he'ddrop dead of a stroke!

 

It's definitely a Whippet.

 

Good

 

is it just me, or is there a resemblance to Alfred E Neuman?
lol

 

I thought I could stay incognito here.

 

And what about the money he could get from the car today, fuel economy be damned?.

 

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