Vintage shots from days gone by!

Betty Brosmer



From The Incredible Shrinking Man

 

Wow, Eddie! I always thought of the autogyros as, sort of, little more than experimental and for publicity demos and such. Never imagined them in a role like this! Obviously, I have to go read up some more on these wild contraptions. THANKS for digging this up!

Oh, and Chief Hollowell with the Tommygun didn't seem to be firing paintballs!

[Just noticed, this autogyro MUST have been awfully advanced tech-wise! The inset of Hollowell "firing" the sub-machinegun shows no one flying. Autogyro with autopilot? LOL Apparently a put-together photo-feature for newspapers.]

 

Right on, Don! What would us car/truck guys do without wheels and gals???

 

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Cool pic, Darth! Looks as though somebody doctored it to try and make it look even older, more sepia or fading. Don't know what they were going for, since it's old ENOUGH! Background info says 1930s, but I and some other HAMBers do a thread on lost drive-in restaurants, and Goodie-Goodies is one of the country's FIRST drive-ins, in the Tampa area and starting some time in the '20s. They used young GUYS as car-hops, not gals on roller skates. (Sorry, DeuceDon!) Ha, ha. THANKS for the blast from the past, man!

 

Sorry if this has been on before, but we've covered a bunch of concept and one-off cars, and
I honestly can't remember. '62 FORD Cougar 406 gullwing concept. Whadya think, gang?
Would the Ford gullwing have flown? (I kinda think yes, if they could build it cheaply enough.)

UPDATE: Hey, the system can work! I searched Cougar 406 and found SWI had in January posted WAY more pix and info than my one measly phto. So, I deleted it. But THANKS, SWI for just labeling pix so we can search to see if something has been posted before. Sometimes, but not always, it does work!

 

Early '60s experimental cars: Monza for SWI (Gary, anything CLOSE to
this actually get built?); Chevy Corvette "Shark"; and Caddy Cyclone --
all "shilling" for AC plugs! Nice color ads from those long-ago days when
the illustrator's art was seen as really worth the ad dollar!


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'60 Daimler SP V-8 250. Called the Daimler Dart in the UK, but not
in the US, because Dodge had the rights to the 'Dart' name. FlickR
car guy Alden Jewell commented: "It was - and still is - a strange
looking car, especially considering it was a Daimler." My question
is, anybody know the origin of the V-8, and did Daimler ever use it
in anything else?

 

1938: End of the Terraplane nameplate, as the Terraplane had, ironically, been a little
too successful for the comfort of some at the parent company! Reminds one at bit of
how and why LaSalle, LaFayette, Marquette and DeSoto were all either phased out or
abruptly preempted. Nice color illustrations from the vast collection of FlickR member
Alden Jewell.

 

Speaking of LaSalle: The '55 LaSalle II Sports Coupe concept. Bortz SAVED at least ONE from
the "secret" junkyard where GM sent concepts, actually intended for destruction.


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Wow! Awesome concept drawing I have never seen before. Believe it or not, 1951 Chrysler
Imperial Phaeton. Amzingly, this works great. Would be nice to see more drawings. Can't
imagine even one built.

 

afaik the daimler V8 was their own and used in the Majestic Major and maybe a jag' body too.

 

They built three. All three were returned to the factory in 1955 and updated with 1956 styling.





Here is a photo I took of one of the three (Beverly Hills City Hall in the background):


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The first "Women Guerrilla" corps has just been formed in the Philippines and Filipino women, trained in their local women's auxiliary service, are seen here hard at work practicing on November 8, 1941, at a rifle range in Manila.

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Their own home-grown! Wow, THANKS much for the fast info!
So, one might think they'd have used it on other projects too, maybe
later?

 

With some of New York's skyscrapers looming through clouds of gas, some U.S. army nurses at the hospital post at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York, wear gas masks as they drill on defense precautions, on November 27, 1941.

 

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PackaBaker below, thanks to FlickRiver; Stude above from FlickR.


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Volvo PV444 (aka "PeeVee"). Remember when these were dirt common? I loved their size and always
wondered if somebody would craft a '40 Ford 'glas nose for them. Anybody ever hear of such a thing?
Nearly 200,000 examples of this sedan were built between 1946 and 1958, according to Alden Jewell
of the FlickR community.


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Women workers groom lines of transparent noses for the A-20J attack bombers at Douglas Aircraft's in Long Beach, California, in October of 1942.

 

Are those apples or pears/pairs?

 

Sylvian, you just made a MoPar guy's day, man! Thanks for the great PIX. (So, Truman would have used these first,
before Ike? The B&W pix I'd seen of Truman's limos didn't do the cars justice the way your photos do.)


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Hmmmm! Okay, 1949 Imp, built in Glendale, Cal. Astronomical gas mileage.
Great! But, folks, the DeLuxe model pictured on their letterhead has no doors!
T-R-O-U-B-L-E? Classed as a mini-car, this fire breather was supposedly made
until 1954.

 

They were really never intended for Presidential use. One each was given to the cities of Los Angeles, New York and Detroit. Los Angeles and New York both still own their cars and use them in official ceremonies. The Detroit car was owned by collector Paul Stern for many years, then the Imperial Palace and was purchased from them by the late Robert E. Petersen and is now in the collection of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles CA.

Here is a shot I took of the Los Angeles car along side the Petersen car when i drove it in the Hollywood Christmas Parade:


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Big THANKS, Sylvian! That surely answers the question RE Truman and Ike, doesn't it? NOT presidential cars AT ALL, different bird!

 

Sylvian, does the rear compartment have two rows of seats like illustration shows?

 

Is that a '37 roadster in the left forground? Maybe a cabriolet, very cool either way