Vintage shots from days gone by!

Must have been a Santa Anna wind when this was taken, you could never normally see the mountains from the Harbor Freeway, the smog was just too bad, even then....

 

That's got Dutch Darrin written all over it.

 

YUP! But I'm loving it!

 

You are correct, it's the Darrin 1941 Packard Clipper Convertible. It was the only one built.

Supposedly, this car was specially built for Actor Errol Flynn.

 

Looks more like a 50's Packard. We own a 41 and it dosen't look anytrhing like this one

 

That's because yours is not a Clipper. Go to this thread to learn more:

http://forums.aaca.org/f134/1941-packard-clipper-convertible-darrin-261424.html

 

Well, I got one right, for a change. Thanks SUNROOFCORD. And thanks for posting the pic, jimi.

 

Awesome pics from an awesome era!!!! Thanks for posting.

 

Thanks for the lesson, didn't think any 41's looked like that, use to the standard body types. This may be the future thinking for the later cars

 

1953 Chicago, Illinois Grant Park Underground Parking Lot Excavation

 

Is that Woodbridge Senior High School?

 

Yes, Woodbridge Senior High School.

 

Hi nukeGM,

You are somewhat correct, the photo's origin is tumblr but it was reposted to a site in Europe and that is where I got it from.

And yes, I always look at everything that was posted all the way back to my last post, mostly because I enjoy seeing all the history but also because I forget what my last post was and I don't want to repeat it..

 

Thanks, I don't think earrings look good on guys..


So noted and deleted.

 

I heard that just before Smokey Yunick funeral they found out that his casket was chopped, channeled and lightened by 300 lbs.

 

Hey there, joined this thread from the first page, outstanding! it's my sunday morning for the last years! all you guys, swi66, raceron and all, great work! an amazing amount of history!

who of you posted this pic? is there some more pics of this car or the fleet of FHP at this aera? I'm always in shots of '42's gone by' Go on with that, you're my sunday coffee!

Greets, Carsten

 

Dick, you KNEW that was gonna kill me, right???

 

Darn right, and it WAS for Errol Flynn. Unfortunately WWII came along, or Packard MAY have produced something like this in greater numbers!

As it was, TWO more tribue cars were built (independently) circa early '50s.

 

Napa, Cal.

 

You got that right......

And ol' Smokey wasn't beyond blowing smoke himself (to keep everybody off their game). And he'd just sit back with the straightest face of all of them while laughing inside.

 

Looking north on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive somewhere between Diversey and Belmont. The thing that looks like a RR track in the lane divider is a pop-up median. For the morning rush hour, the barrier would rise into place and the southbound traffic would get 6 of the 8 lanes inbound toward downtown. In the afternoon, the barrier on the southbound side would come up and northbound traffic from downtown would get the majority of the road. This was used up til the early/mid 1970s when they switched over to orange traffic cones to divide it up twice a day. By the 80s that practice was ended on Lake Shore Drive. However, daily lane switches continued on Sheridan Rd and Ridge Blvd, the northside arterial streets that feed Lake Shore Dr thru the late 90s.

 

True to the spirit, all the way to the end!.

 

Smokey was one of his own....a student of the legendary Red Vogt, master of the flathead, mechanic of some of the earliest GA stock cars, mechanic of first Nascar winner, and first two championships for Raymond Parks' team, and won several Indy 500's. Anyway, I don't know if any of ya'll have ever read Smokey's book. I haven't read it, but I've been listening to parts of it on audio. It's great, he was really smart and powerful. It's great to listen to, but he never was cautious with words....in other words, don't have a woman near while you're listening to it!! lol

 

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And that was just done so that the
inspectors would find it and stop
looking and then miss all the other
*really* "trick" things!!!!

Mart3406
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I know it's not and that these pics are
from the U.S. and were taken "back in
the day".....but I just got back from
Cuba - and other than the absence of a
few mid-'80's Ladas, Moskovitches and
Volgas thrown into the mix, I could
*almost* swear that these two pics
were taken just last week, somewhere
on the Central Highway, between
Havana and Matanzas! I kid you
not!!!

Mart3406
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Southward Ho Motel, San Diego



Sun-Dek Motel, Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia


Prairie Traveler Motel, Bloomington, IL



Villa D'Autray Motel & Cabins, Berthierville, Quebec

 

What is the car third up on the far right (in front of the 59 chevy)? Wierd roofline... Convertible? El Camino? Station wagon with the back of its roof missing?