Vintage shots from days gone by!

From Psycho

 

Car in the USSR

 

Neat pic of the 2' gauge. The Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railroad, built in the late 1800s, ran from Wiscasset to Winslow and Albion. It never made it to its goal of reaching the Moosehead Lake region. nor to Waterville or Farmington.

 

S.H. Mora, founder of the Mora Motor Car Company started building his cars in 1906 in Rochester, NY, then later in Newark, NY. Mora built a one cylinder, belt driven juvenile motor car, named the BrownieKar. Marketed at around $150.00, it was intended for any responsible boy or girl of eight years of age or older. A young Buster Keaton, the great silent film comedy actor of the 1920’s is behind the wheel of this 1910 BrownieKar.

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In 1909 Alice Ramsey became the first woman in history to drive an automobile from coast to coast using a Maxwell-Briscoe. The advertising stunt was dreamed up by the company’s sales manager, and a new green 1909 DA model was provided for Alice to drive. Alice took three other women with her on the trip, as you can see in the publicity photo below.

 

Thanks. Looks like John Anderson. Didn't realize he was in that move.

 

A plywood truck!

 

Thanks for that. Looks like John Anderson. Didn't know he was in that movie.

 

"With anticipation out of control; Joe no longer could wait to be the first to drive on the new roadway."

 

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Two engineers are seen posing in this photo at an unknown manufacturer or testing lab in this 1930s in a neat post with information and links we have up today on The Old Motor along with three enlargements.

 

Wow that is one UGGLY truck. I hope it worked better than it looked.

 

Lodge Freeway in Detroit.....

 

I'd love to have a 59 Buick 2 door hardtop, but first I'd want to see the Carfax on that one.

 

Looks more like diamond plate to me.

 

I don't know whats she is looking at but I know what he is lOOking at.

 

Dig the "ultra-wide" jack stands! Probably in the way when you needed to get in the center of the car, but they sure look hard to tip over. Gary

 

Bleecker Motors has sold many different brands over the years. I once bought a Fiat from them in this very building. The building remains and is now the home of Tim Bradham's Chassis Works. Some cool rides come out of this shop.

 

In 1909 Alice Ramsey became the first woman in history to drive an automobile from coast to coast using a Maxwell-Briscoe. The advertising stunt was dreamed up by the company’s sales manager, and a new green 1909 DA model was provided for Alice to drive. Alice took three other women with her on the trip, as you can see in the publicity photo below. [/QUOTE]

This feat was duplicated in 2009 by a woman from Alabama. Would be a fun trip.

 

For the youngsters, Jamie Lee Curtis' mom.

 

And they are real, unlike her daughter's.