Vintage shots from days gone by!

re-post

1940 Mercury restyled by Barris Kustoms for Al Andril of Bell, California in 1947.
Al sold his Merc in the early 50's to Malibu surf pioneer Dale Velzy.
It was last seen doing duty as a surfboard transport before dropping out of sight.

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(posted for Rent A. Trip and Irish Mike) via: kustomrama
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day at the drags 1957

 

remember there are big old good ones and good old big ones, looks big to me

 

I had some old 8mm movies of the OK. nats then, but I donated the 3 min. roll to Greg Sharp at NHRA museum in Pomona about 5 years ago, I presume they still have access to the history.------Don

 

What a fascinating bus! Do you have any more information on this swi66?

 

The Varsity was at one time (and may still be) billed as the world's largest drive-in restaurant. It is still in business (here are a couple of more recent pictures).

 

Here's some more Unusual bus designs.



This is one I posted before.
..............VVV

 

Duane Allman and a couple of old friends.

 

Thanks for reposting the picture of my Mother, Father and me

 

badda$$$$ 65 nova, only year with headlight rings and 'c' moldings
was the same yr as first nova i owned, mine was white 2 dr,
rebuilt 283 w/350 heads, sold it in 88 to someone in riverside.

 

Not a problem ...I hope.Like I said before I was surfing through photo bucket looking for pictures but then realized they were on here already.

 

Great pic, Rocky. "Skydog" with his Gibson Les Pauls. One of the BEST g'damn
groups EVER! F-in-A right! My new wife and I were both lost a while when he
got killed in '71. (Thank God for Dickey Betts; makes missing Duane not hurt
as bad! And, if it still hurts, I play some Tommy Bolin or Stevie Ray.)

 

Keep posting Eddie. There's no way of knowing if a photo was already posted unless it was fairly recently. It's impossible to go back and check. It would be interesting to know exactly how many times a photo has been posted on this thread. I'd guess better than 75% of them have been posted more than once and the more popular ones have been seen 4 or more times. Would be an interesting stat. No worries though it's all good.

 

Lol thanks man.I was about to throw in the towel . I enjoy relaxing after work looking and posting these old pictures but if it annoys or bugs anyone I'm not into it then.

 

Alex Tremulis' modified 1935 Ford Roadster with Duesenberg side exhaust

http://www.gyronautx1.com/1/<wbr>post/2012/11/alex-tremulis-<wbr>first-car-1935ford-v8with-<wbr>miller-ford-dual-carbs.html

 

Calimesa Pharmacy, Calimesa, CA. The building is still there but not in use any more. The owners son had a '63 Impala with the first 327 I ever saw. I lived about 3 blocks from this site from '56-'69. Used to spend hours looking at the car mags. in there.

 

Hey, Eddie. As 327 said, it's all good. You put a lot of heart into the thread and obviously get Dog's general theme, so stay with it. You possibly missed when the HAMB moderator, MetalShapes, settled the issue about repeats. He said almost EXACTLY what 327 just said:

Repeats, NO PROBLEM. The mods mainly want the thread to run smoothly. But any POLITICS, RELIGION or DRAMA, then there's a problem.

 

Thanks again Jimi

 

I've been bummed, and I figured maybe others were too. So, maybe we should see some vintage
material, even if only for a temporary pressure-release from the events in Connecticut. Obviously,
all HAMBers hold folks there in there hearts and prayers. 'nough said for a vintage thread.



1949 - NASCAR stages the first Grand National event at the Charlotte Fairgrounds. Cool vintage moment, thanks to PoorWilliam.

 

Ad art thanks to AliceJean'sBlogSpot

 

Somewhere between the look of Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe was Mamie Van Doren.
Discovered by Howard Hughes, she got her start in RKO films and, for a South Dakota gal,
didn't do badly at all in the synthetic world of Tinsel Town! Today, she and her husband,
Tom Dixon, live in California where she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as well
as her own line of fine wines. In her autobiography, she claimed many beaus in her youth.
The photos and magazine covers here are thanks to the site, "Who's Dated Who."
(Should be "Who's Dated WHOM," but, hey, we're not picky here!)







This shot is thanks to Greenman (Joe Black) of FlickR.


Photo thanks to Ted Gordon of Pinterest

 

Cine Revue, France September 1955


Cene Tele Revue, France, July 1960


PHOTOPLAY, U.S., June 1955


DIG, U.S., August 1957


Tabloid Weekly News, January 1955

 

Most people would laugh if you said the civil war reached Europe. Here, in 1864, during the Ameircan Civil War, the USS Kearsarge sinks the confederate raider CSS Alabama off the coast of France. France was allied with the Confederate States of America and frequently ran union blockades -- on both sides of the Atlantic! -- to get much needed essentials to the rebs who, for practical purposes, were otherwise cut off from international sea trade.

 

1912. "Auto polo," somewhere in New York.