Vintage shots from days gone by!

Lili St. Cyr

 

We have a detailed post up on The Old Motor about the early Cameron and believe this may have been one of the companies first racing cars. Stop by and check out the post we have up on this very interesting car with walking-beam valve gear.

 

A race track over roof tops? Or is it a test track? traffic in both directions no barriers between lanes ,No cath fence to speak of on the outer edges!A flip could easily put a car over those walls! Found it! both Fiat and Chrysler had roof top race tracks here's Fiats info http://jalopnik.com/5714628/fiats-roof-top-test-track Chrysler also had a rooftop test track on it's plant in Argentina http://jalopnik.com/5745797/chryslers-amazing-secret-rooftop-test-track

 

Hi Al,

very nice pics again, thanks! where did you get them? are they family pics?

 

Okay here are a group of Studebaker cop cars. Studebaker called such police specials, "Marshalls."

 

As most of you know Studebaker started out building wagons, buggies, etc. Here's an early dealership, possibly in South Bend.

 

This drawing shows the Studebaker factory in 1868. It grew rapidly during the Civil War due to its contract with the Union Army for wagons. Note that the original building seen above (#52721) is in the center of the factory grounds.

 

Studebaker Wagons being delivered by train.

 

Back when the ice cream man trolling the neighborhoods looked legit and respectable.
Not like some I see today in clapped out mini vans.

 

NO,---Not Jayne Mansfield,----I mean the first pix!!

 

"CHUCKO the CLOWN CAR"---Late 50's

 

Thanks SWI66---She was one HOT number back then in Burlesque!

 

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VuPoint Solutions, Digital Film & Slide Converter, slow but works great, did about 900 of our slides. Converts 35mm slides & negatives to SD card.

 

I think, I just worked out why I'm such a fan of Blues music! I always wanted to be a black musician!!

Doc!

 

These particular Shelby Mustangs were a very limited special order -
GT-350 H ...the "H" was for Hertz (not Hurst!) Hertz Rent-A-Car
ordered a designated amount of these specialty rental units from Shelby Factory-
all were done in this Black with Gold Trim- If you have one of these -
it is worth a nice garage full of cash....

 

our good humor ice cream man got busted for selling herion and pot out of his truck when i was a teenager.back in the late 70s. i rememebr him well!

 

When I was in grad school, I was helping one of the profs wrap up a restoration of his GT-350. Beautiful car with the white paint and blue stripes.

Just as we were finishing the interior, he found out that it was actually a Hertz "rent-a-racer". Yep, complete tear down again and strip the brand new paint off to go back with black with gold stripes.

Lot of work, but totally worth it.

- RBR

 

I too rememered them all being black with gold stripes, but just saw a red one that's supposed to be real a Hertz car.

 

Here is the production and color info for them:

"In all, only 1,001 of these fastbacks were built for Hertz in 1966. The makeup consisted of 999 units of the following colors: A majority in Raven Black with Gold (Bronze Powder) side and Le Mans racing stripes, 50 Candy Apple Red with side stripes, 50 Wimbledon White with side stripes (as well as several models with both side and Le Mans stripes), 50 Sapphire Blue models with side stripes, and 50 Ivy Green with side stripes. Two of the GT350H Mustangs were prototype models. Each of the cars was built in Los Angeles at the Shelby American Los Angeles airport facility."

 

My grandparents. Nov. 1950
1947 Chevy?