Vintage shots from days gone by!

I bet this nut was one crazy mother to ride with. Check out the car, the fender is all smashed to shit and even the trunk is stove up. He even looks like a wild man, I bet if you got in the car with this guy you were in for a real treat and this was all before the day's of tats and the rest of the crap the nut jobs do to themselves today..

 

#60503 looks like the back drop from the 'boot hill' scene in the movie "Magnificent 7"

 

I really get a charge out of this one.
Many in their 50's and 60's can finally afford a Mustang............

 

A good read.

 

Plymouth Turbine
George J. Huebner, Jr., a research engineer with Chrysler Corporation, poses with a turbine-powered 1960 Plymouth. According to the press release, "The new engine has achieved the rapid acceleration and engine braking characteristics long sought in the turbine engine field." Notice the dip in the front edge of hood.

 

The Ford Cougar concept car was unveiled at the 1962 Chicago Auto show— five years before Mercury's Cougar. The Ford Cougar was powered by a 406-cid V8 and had electrically operated gullwing doors. The Cougar appeared in the 1963 Jack Lemon movie Under the Yum Yum Tree.

 

Before this time in history I worked for GM as a modeler. Note along the center line of both sides of the bodies the design is different. This was a common way of presenting different designs on one model. The body in the front on the left front fender looks very much like what the 1971 Javelin had for a front fender. Back in the day if you worked for one company in any of the development departments your weren't allowed to hang out or associate with anyone from a different car company. If you did and got caught you would be fired.

 

Quicksilver styling model, the basis for the sleek and sophisticated 1960 full-size Ford.

 

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Hurst Rescue System One.
Besides selling performance equipment, George Hurst also invented the "jaws of life." In the Seventies he modified an AMC Gremlin for highway rescue use that carried a jaws of life and other rescue equipment.

 

The Chrysler Plainsman concept car was introduced at the 1956 Chicago Auto Show. The station wagon featured a rear-facing 3rd-row seat and a "cantilever step-type" roof. Unlike some other Fifties concept cars, the Plainsman has survived.

 

It does indeed - I think it's billed as the worlds shortest railway.

 

I want a Spartan Manor, those are so very cool.

 

Yes, still exists, altho not at the same site.

 

It's a clay mockup of the 1971 Roadrunner/GTX.

 

Hey, Eddie, any info about this family snapshot? Also, was it actually shot slanted like that, or did someone on the internet think it would be artsy to tilt it? Where was Fretwell's DeSoto?

 

Anybody recognize the buildings on the background of this home movie shot? Would like to find out what parade this video was shot in.

 

If anyone has photos in their family photo album of them riding in these cars at the amusement park. I would love to see them and know what park they were shot at.
Cars in the large shot are 1958 Thunderbird, 1958 Mercury and a couple 1958 Plymouths. All made by the Powercar company of Mystic CT then prepped for track use by Pretzel amusements.

 

Boy do I hate winter driving!
And when the top doesn't go up it's even worse!