Vintage shots from days gone by!

'56 DeSoto, thanks to the OldCarManuals project.

 

1959 Pioneer electric car prototype, with Nic-L-Silver Battery President
George Lippincott at wheel, thanks to GreenCarReports. Lippincott
engaged Frank Kurtis to design and build the chassis and Victress of
North Hollywood to do a 'glas body subtly different from their own fiber-
glass bodies. Drive was via two electric motors, and range was up to 150
miles. Due to projected high costs for bring it to full production, only
one Nic-L-Silver Pioneer was built, and it is reportedly still in existence.
Photo thanks to the Car Connection.

 

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Scrounged up a few more from my personal stash. These four Instamatic shots were from the 1977 World of Wheels car show in Chicago; badly faded but I did what I could:






And for swi66, one more (or maybe 2/3 of one more?) Corvair:

 

Mid-Atlantic Air Musuem in Reading,Pa. will soon have the only one in flying condition. I think there's only about 3 left.

 

Four - one in the Smithsonian, one at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, the one at Reading, and one on display in China.

 

Thank you so much for posting those! This 44 year old KID appreciates it very much.

 

Is that a raccoon sitting on her head.I can't belive she went camping with that hairdo

 

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I am sure she would have worn her hair differently if she had any idea that it would be important to you 4+ decades later.

 

True, was merely trying to say. Us LA natives would easily know that Avenue 57 to be an exit off the Arroyo Seco Pkwy, Pasadena Fwry, 110, 11, and just plan old Arroyo Seco referring to the river that naturally ran into LA. The landscape still looks the same to this day, even though the picture is way before my being born.

 

I've seen the one at wright-patt, and just recently read the tale of the one in PA. Very cool story... I can't wait to see that mother in the air!!

http://www.maam.org/p61.htm

Also, got to see the B-29 "FiFi" fly last summer, it was killer..

 

Red X's only for me. But would love to see photos.

 

Does anyone have more info on the roadster in the foreground with the Y block?

I like what I see so far!!! (and yes, I know it's the Beachboys, and I know that I sohould know the car, but it's escaping me right now)

 

If I remember correctly that was a shot from the Stage at the Ed Sullivan theater in NY. So chances are they were east coast cars. Probably were in the Cars Mags from the period. the show aired in September of 64. Their next appearance was in 68 and no cars on the set then.

 

Can't find any info on the cars but here are a couple of better images...

 

^^^^If memory serves me correctly, (and it rarely does these days) that's an Olds in
the Niekemp?(sp) roadster......

 

niekamp roadster according to this site had a track ose and a flathead.

 

I'm Still wondering what "Sanitary Ice Cream was"

 

Ft. Lauderdale








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Largo FL

 

Gene Tierney

Ava Gardner

Jayne Mansfield

Liz Taylor

Natalie Wood

 

the Mysterious Island 1929

1911-Chester E. McDuffee’s patented diving suit



Hayley Mills vs Cthulhu

 

Katharine Hepburn in “Christopher Strong” (1933).




1954 … ‘Killers From Space”