Vintage shots from days gone by!

1940 DC Area

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1940 Belzoni MS

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1940 Visalia CA

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Caption says Union Pacific Streamliner - year?

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Caption says 20th Century Limited, year not given

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1942 West Danville VT

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WWII era 1942 gas rationing lines

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I sure hope this truck wasn't part of the chocolate business in the background, as it would be one huge turd of a delivery truck. Anyone know more about Sillito's? Gary

 

What the hell are these guys smoking in the shop ?

 

Those front fenders, are they pointed up for takeoff?.

 

Looks like it says something like "...loaf" on the cowl. The box does look a bit like a bread loaf.

 

I know quite a few coupes (and roadsters) got this conversion, but this is the first time I saw a pic showing the actual job being done.

Thanks.

Mart.

 

This one has me puzzled. Some of the oil cans I can identify are (1) Havoline, (2) Gulflube, (3) Sinclair, (4) Esso, (5) Texaco and (6) Quaker State. From the pumps it appears to be a Texaco station. Hard to believe they sold these other brands. I know when I was a kid working at an Esso station it was the kiss of death to have any other product but Esso around.

 

people brought their own
man I'd love to have those cans


1938 assembly line

 

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'47 Stude

 

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Wallace Kirkland photos

 

1945 SoCal

 

1942????----Bet that car stayed on the floor for 3 more years!

 

Wow. Very cool picture. Old time sleeper cab with team drivers. Uniformed pump attendant with the official hat. Back in the mid '60's, I remember the glass bottles with the cool spouts contained 'remanufactured' oil that sold for 25 cents per quart. I went through plenty in the heaps I drove back then. "Fill it up, and check the gas."

 

Now there's a real maypop. I can almost see the air!

 

I posted that on the Flyer's Hot Rod Forum a while back, it's a bread bakery in the UK. Here's it's companion, the fruit vendor's apple cab.

 

Wwii----1942