Vintage shots from days gone by!

Makes sense.

 

Thanks for clearing that up in only one sentence.

 

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It sure looks like it could be her. What an amazing woman!

Dot Robinson was an incredible woman who made huge contributions to women in motorcycling. It can be said that she had the most impact and helped the most in elevating the importance and involvement of women in our sport. Not only did she break down tremendous barriers but also “walked the walk” when it came to riding and racing, wracking up thousands of miles on the street as well as racing and winning off-road, she did it all.
Dot Robinson is probably best known for being the driving force behind the Motor Maids, which was a group formed for women involved with riding motorcycles, and it was the first of its kind back in 1941. This was a huge accomplishment as the general public was firmly against women participating in any type of motorcycling activities… except riding passenger. She was not only a rider but a racer as well, competing and having success on the AMA Enduro circuit.
Dot’s family lived motorcycles. Her father was James Goulding, an Australian sidecar racer who moved to Michigan. The legend says when her mother was going to give birth to Dot; Goulding tore off to the hospital with her in a sidecar…figures.
Goulding owned a motorcycle dealership in Saginaw and Dot was a regular fixture there, interacting with both customers and the riding public in general. Obviously this contributed to her being forever imprinted with the two-wheeled fever that is motorcycling.
Dot began riding and racing at an early age, spurred on by her father. And hanging around at his shop certainly made a huge impression on her two-wheeled outlook! She won her first trophy in 1930 at the Flint 100 Endurance race. Then she entered the Jack Pine National Endurance and won in the sidecar class, becoming the first woman ever to win this event.
Dot did find time for other things in life… in 1931 she married fellow motorcycle enthusiast Earl Robison and they also made history with a record transcontinental run together in 1935, soon after this feat Harley-Davidson asked the Robinsons if they would open a dealership, and they then moved to Detroit and opened one up, and it ran until 1971 when they sold it — and many loyal customers were dismayed to see it go.
Next up was Dot’s work with the Motor Maids. The Motor Maids were established the early 40’s and was the first documented female motorcycle club. They concentrated on introducing motorcycles and riding to women who otherwise may have had no way to participate. The Motor Maids were well-known and well-regarded among the other AMA clubs and welcomed at the AMA Rallies and gatherings, and Dot even wrote a popular monthly column in the AMA magazine.
In the late 40’s and early 50’s Dot began to wear her signature pink riding outfits and she became known for her unique sense of style… and many emulate that style to this day and the manufacturers still offer it. It has been speculated that she felt the black leather look was not good for the sport and intimidated “civilians”.
Earl Robinson passed in 1996, and Dot kept right on riding until the age of 85, when knee replacement surgery made it painful to get in her sidecar rig. She passed away 2 years later, at the wise old age of 87.
She will be missed by the motorcycling community, Dot Robinson, we salute you.

 

sonic testing the bores on Y Blocks ,,Geelong Australia Ford factory 1958

 

This brings back memories. In the 1950s, very early in the morning (just after the station signed on) TV stations in the NY area used to broadcast these silent, black & white cartoons. I remember they used to have the old bald guy and the cat, but can't remember who produced the cartoons (Max Roach?). Thanks for posting.

 

If you like early trucks, check out these great Packard truck photos on The Old Motor where we have three pages of Packard trucks delivered by the Citizens Packard Motor Car Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

Thanks for your sense of humor, Lewis. We'd all live longer if we had one, bro. Gary, a HUGE thanks for the two shots below! I had p---poor luck trying to find such shots a year or two ago, and YOU found them, as you seem always to do!

That's Tim Considine behind the wheel, playing the character Spin in the Disney TV serial, "Spin and Marty" (sort of like a '50s version of "The Hardy Boys Go West"). I think the plot called for the Ford to get away from Spin and, eventually, crash into the bunk house. The production crew must have faked that pretty well, as I read somewhere that the car appeared in OTHER films later ('59 "Shaggy Dog," maybe?) I also seem to recall that Tim has been a motor enthusiast all his life. My old memory has me teetering on speculationg here, so, PLEASE, anybody with sound memories on any of this, help!

 

You dont think the Mercury engine was a V-8??
The 41 four was similar to an A but had a cast-in boss for a fuel pump, like the Model B. None of the Ford cars had a four in 40/41, just the pickups. The engine in the pickup looks amazing identical to the tractor.
I have Model A engines, a B engine and a 41 9N tractor and have been thru these engines as I rebuilt them.

 

Pearl Beer, onion rings and a 4" Colt Python, a fine beginning to any Saturday night!

 

Born in Australia, she was taken to and from the hospital on the occasion of her birth in a sidecar of her father's manufacture.

http://www.cyclematters.com/motorcy...ey-davidson-dealer-endurance-motorcyclist.cfm

 

Just taking his wife to dinner.....for her last time(Robert Blake)

 

I know about those plates!
They were used for MFG. REPS.for GM.
My friend had them on his factory warranty car his # was mfg.015

 

"Don't laff honey"----Its called an AUTOGYRO!!!!!

 

What an awesome thread, it's gonna take me a while to swim through it!

 

I love the 4449...such class and elegance!



I had the great fortune to grow up just a mile or so from the Brooklyn Roundhouse were she and the other Portland locomotives lived from 1974 to 2012 when the relocated to their new home. On summer afternoons we could hear her "howling" and prowling around in the rail yard. Dad would throw us in the car and rush down there to watch her up close saying "take it in and enjoy it now because one day you might not be able to see this anymore".

cool stuff!

 

I think Barris used ice cube trays on the hood. These two were auctioned on Barrett Jackson a few months ago. The cars, not Sonny & Cher.

 

No, this Chevrolet dealership was in Jacksonville Florida in the '40s.

http://www.jaxhistory.com/Jacksonville Story/Picture of Riverside Chevrolet.htm

 

I worked with Dot's nephew Don at Wither's Tool and Die in Mabelton Georgia back in the late 80's early 90's, he used to tell us stories about her, he used to ride as well til he lost a leg in a motorcycle accident in the 40's.

 

RE: post #54372

Tito Falcone, Italian aviator at 1933 Los Angeles National Air Races, talking to actress, Jean Harlow. Falcone ws very popular record setter who specialized in long inverted flights (that is..upside down!). He set another long distance inverted flight record at those events, flying between Southern Ca towns along the coast.

 

SO how do both cars have the same 014 number?

 

014 is the number assigned to the manufacturer. 9E and 13L are the numbers assigned to the plates on these cars. CA dlr and mfg plates are still similar in their layout.

 

a reminder that the 50s weren't all 'fun' for kids - polio vaccine being delivered, probably about 1955, 2 years too late for my sis who had polio in '53:

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