Vintage shots from days gone by!

Location Unknown, looks like early 50s?

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I doubt it, he is a line man look at his spikes on his legs

 

Couldn't locate the REO tanker again. But FlickR member "MichealV"
had it in one of his photo-streams. There MUST be a SUPER back story
on this creative design, though I'll venture that the roomy "fender" de-
sign had a safety factor to the thinking! THANKS, Michael & FlickR!
(BTW, looks more '30s than 1950!)

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1948 - Murray pedal car designer. Imagine - this level of quality craftsmanship actually existed for toys!

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Pic title stated 1949 but not sure of year of this Dodge COE. I don't recollect seeing too many of these old MOPARs, more Chevies/GMCs, and Fords.

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1956 - Experimental inflatible airplane? I don't think so, Tim...

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Another one from '56 - Goodyear experimenting with plane tires​

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He even looks like Rudolf Hess

 

Here is the one from "The Henry" I was there in September and snapped this pic.....Very Kool! Looks like the same truck??

Murph

 

The streamlined trucks and busses seemed to popup right around the time of the 1939/40 Worlds Fair in NY as styling and marketing pieces for manifactureres and Brands of proucts. It was a representation looking forward to the future and what might be possible.

Gotta wonder what might have happened to those concepts if WWII had not inturupted the flow of consumer products and the design, or if the design would have lagged behind comparered to the stuff that developed out of aircraft design.

 

It would have hopefully been a darn site better than what the early jet/rocket age did to late '50's cars. Certainly it couldn't have been worse.

 

So Ugly it might be cute..36 Dodge chassis body built in Australia.

 

Looks a lot like the Labat beer trucks.

 

Complete with snow and ice chains on the wide whites.

 

"Dad" John Howard Hollis (deceased) handed out a "Colorado State Patrol Safe Drivers Award" to an (unknown) driver. I think this was around 1964-65 and that was his Plymouth Police Cruiser car behind him. "Giant" of a man with hands as big as a gorilla's! Miss ya dad!

 

Rest assured, Jimi....it actually has the correct bumper on it.

 

Here's the color version of this shot from the Louisville, KY library site

 

I think you will find that there are many who disagree with that opinion! One of these days I'll find and post pictures of our '59 Cad Sedan DeVille and '59 Olds Super 88 coupe.

 

Yeah, kind of brings to mind Mercedes race streamlining of the '30s.

 

Shades of 1930's 'Buck Rogers' Art Deco!!! I love it!!
Can you imagine that streamlined Reo tanker showing
up at Bonneville, hauling fuel for a bunch of LSR (what
else!) 'streamliners'! How cool would that be??!! Or
imagine gutting the tank compartment and converting
the interior space to use as a race car hauler....or
cutting some porthole-shaped windows into the side
and using the interior space as a motorhome??!!

Mart3406
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Art did take the Cyclops Green Monster and make a boat out of it, but never did run it. Everytime power was applied it would nosedive into the water. Craig Arfons son of Walt Arfons (Art's brother) did construct a jet power boat. But was killed in it during a run in Florida for the Worlds Water Speed Record.

 

One of the Arfons - I'm not sure which one,
built a jet-powered boat that had wheels and
rubber tires on the front, based on the idea
or theory that at high speeds, the water would
act more like a solid surface rather than a liquid
and that the tires would actauly roll across the
surface and help control the boat! The boat was
actually built but I don't know any more about
or if it ever raced with the wheels on it. Was this
the boat perhaps that Craig Arfons was killed
in Florida????

Mart3406
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Speaking of boats too - how about this circa-1956
ad for the Stokes marine conversion of the 1955-56
352 Packard V8. Even though Packard only ever
produced this engine for two years, when the Packard
engine plant in Detroit shut down for good at the end
of the 1956 model run, there were enough left-over
engines in stock that Stokes was able to continue
buying them from Studebaker-Packard and offer
them up as marine conversions right through into
the early and mid-1960's!

Mart3406
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This was discussed at some length earlier in this thread. Yes,the car was adapted to a set of pontoons, both with and without wheels/tires mounted. I don't know how it was configured during the accident.



http://www.lesliefield.com/other_history/art_arfons_and_his_green_monster.htm

http://jalopnik.com/202109/walt--art-arfons-jet-car-pioneers

http://www.lesliefield.com/other_history/arfons_gears_monster_for_water_s.htm

Whether brother Walt was involved in this at all I do not know. Walt and Art were not on speaking terms for a number of years.

 

Yep ..that's what it was alright - the Goodyear
Inflate-A-Plane - an experimental inflatable
rubber airplane . I'd try it. I mean other maybe
springing a leak and deflating in flight, eek, what
could possibly go wrong?? The engine by the way,
was a two-cylinder, two-stroke, originally intended
for powering unmanned target and reconnaissance
drones - and made by Paxton - McCullough - the
same company that made OEM and aftermarket
automotive superchargers.

Mart3406
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There is a beautifully restored Airflow Tanker in the Bill Richardson museum also (same front bumpers) but look at that back end

 

It is 30's and Australian, they were taken out of service by 1948.

This is well known downunder and I've always thought it looks like it was designed as a fifth wheeler.

 

1958 Cuban-market Packard ad
- I've been to Cuba many times and
seen lots and lots of '50's and even
older vintage American cars still in use
as daily-drivers and even in commercial
use as private Taxi cabs there, but I've
never seen any '57 or '58 Packards in
Cuba. I'm not sure how many '57 model
'Packardbakers' were imported, but since
their sales were extremely low in the U.S
and Canada for the '57 and '58 model-years
too, and particularly for 1958-model year,
since Cuba was also in the throws of
revolution with Fidel Castro's "July 26
Movement" taking power on Jan. 1,
1959, I'll bet that very, very few (if any??)
1958-model Packards were imported.

Mart3406
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Here's another one, from the Teamster's Union museum, here in BC.

 

Graham Sharknose in Sydney in 1951

 

1929 Graham Paige, Note the mudguards on the trailer are also Graham Paige