Vintage shots from days gone by!

That's a '60 Ford in that picture.

 

<DT class=description>Description:</DT><DD class=description>The historic image shows workers building tracks to move the Steamer Ticonderoga. When the Steamer Ticonderoga was retired from the water, it was moved to Shelburne Museum on a specially made railroad during the early months of 1955.</DD>

 

<DT class=description>Description:</DT><DD class=description>This historic image is of what was described as a gasoline-powered railcar that was part of the White River Railroad of Vermont that was completed in Gaysville around 1900. Two men can be seen posing for the photographer, probably the conductor in front and an owner standing in the doorway based on their dress. The railcar is black with the number "101" and word "Stanley" painted on the side. Deciduous trees can be seen in the background. The season is summer. Donald B. Valentine writes on 2006-2-15: The two men in this photo appear to be incorrectly identified. The man in the doorway is more likely the conductor and the man in the window the motorman or operator, corrsponding to the engineer of a normal locomotive. This is not, however, a "gasoline-powered rail car". Rather, as the Stanley name on the side clearly indicates, it was a steam powered rail car powered by a boiler and drive train very similar to what the Stanley Steam Carriage Company of Newton, Massachusetts, used to power their Stanley Steamer automobiles. The car is believed to be being tested on the White River Railroad at this time and was later on the Boston & Maine, where it ultimately burned in an enginehouse fire in Bristol, New Hampshire.</DD><DL class=image-details-supplemental><DT class=filename>Filename:</DT></DL>

 

1971 LeMans pathetic? coming from a VW-driving noob?

 

Talking about movies and identifying cars someone mentioned earlier in Thunder Road "Robert Mitchum drove a shoebox Ford all through the movie", for the other two thirds he drove this 57...

 

Ain't it a Ford

 

Big bumper guards on the '47 Chevrolet and the '49 Ford convertible - were these common up north?

 

thats uglier than a train wreck!

 

ok guys, i know im really behind the times. im still stuck in the 70s.but what the hell is a "metrosexual"? and please no smartass comments.! lol

 

Cool pic, Gary! Anybody notice anything special about the '54 the gals are scrubbing here? (Hint: Rare car, 'cause it didn't trip many consumers' triggers. But WAY COOL!)

 

Looks like one of them rare Skyliners (I think), the glass roof models. But the fender script doesn't match 1954???

I've only seen one in real life. 45 years ago.

 

I KNEW cats were from another planet!

 

CLOSE! Very close. '54 Merc Sun Valley with plastic insert in the front roof. Ford made their version for three seasons, Mercury just '54 and '55. The number of '55s was less than 1,800, making them very rare Mercs.

But I need help from the Merc-O-Nado HAMbers: How many Sun Valleys did Mercury build for '54???