Vintage shots from days gone by!

What, with parking spaces wide enough to park a full size Chevy Impala??? So do I!!!!!!!!!!

 

Is that a Corvair with snow on the front parked just to the left of the 69 Dodge Charger? Looks like a second Corvair in the photo with the later body style as well.

 

Meh! None of them look anything like the craft I came here in!!

Doc.

Edit: Doh! I feel I have said too much!

 

.........Un-necessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved!


Doc.
(Betcha' can't guess what movie I just happen to be watching right now!)

 

1955, Edwards AFB California

"...View of Lockheed XVF-1 Pogo, an experimental vertical take-off and landing aircraft at North Base. Photograph was taken on the apron between buildings 4401 and 4402, looking north northeast towards back of Building 4402 and officers' quarters (T-15) beyond. - Edwards Air Force Base, North Base, North Base Road, Boron, Kern County, CA"​

 

Roger Mayne photographer.
Southam Street is situated in North Kensington, London but is unrecognisable now due to slum clearance in the '60s. Teddy boys and girls were a feature of this north London area - an area of immigrant families, often of Irish decent.
Note the white paint on the rear mudguard. This is a legacy from WW11 when, due to the blackout and light restrictions, mudguards on both bikes and cars were often painted white to show up at night.
The death and injury rate on British roads soared at the beginning of the war due to these severe lighting restrictions.

 

" Round Tank " 250 cc BSA cycles. Registration numbers suggest that the shot was taken in Birmingham, England and being consecutive perhaps they were sisters.
One definitely dressed for the English weather, the other in a skirt perhaps more daring...or foolish. Both bikes well equiped for distance touring. Obviously enthusiasts!

 

Joe Neilson of Peacehaven. From memorywall.org.uk
















Here's one for Swi66


And back to Blighty. Obviously England is in black and white while America is in colour.



One from NZ:

 

I951:





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Nash Healey pits at LeMans 1953

 

This is one of three great early Indian Motorcycle photos we have up today in a post on The Old Motor.

 

Boston, MA circa 1954

 

Everett, MA, circus elephants take a dip in the Mystic River while train riders watch from above!

 

Car wrecked on Fellsway, Medford, MA 1935

 

Three kids arrested for crashing car on Fellsway in Medford MA in 1935; and a view of Thompson Square in Charlestown, MA before the "el" was razed . . .