Vintage shots from days gone by!

Some more from the 1940's.


Austin Seven on the side of the road in Trinidad during WWII. The second car with the H2926 plate is a car for hire.


Norton Motorcycle P1396


Farm truck, Oklahoma 1944.





1941 Buick. My Worthington High School Chemistry teacher with his new Buick. He traded a 1939 Dodge--on a salary of less than $2,000. I took the photo with a Super Ikonta A.


1942 Chrysler - Bonnie Blinked


Filling the tank in the 1940s


1942 Ford Woodie. 79 Tyndall Field, Florida WWII


78 1942 Ford Woodie, Tyndall Field, Florida WWII


It's Rodeo Time. ... and they're all dressed and ready to go!


1941 at Columbus, Ohio Airport-CMH. "Physics class trip to airport, October 1941. Argus C2, Panatomic X, developed D-76" I wrote on a negative envelope that I just found.

I was a senior at Worthington High chool at the time. Frank Pyle, our Physics teacher, later became a vice president of Gulf.

I think the plane is a DC-3. The Columbus airport was in a small. building on Fifth Avenue. Looking at this photo reminds me of how simple it was to board a plane in those days. You just walked a few feet and climbed aboard. But it took lots more money to buy a ticket.


Start of the 1940 Indianapolis 500. The race winner, for the third time, was Wilbur Shaw. He is in car number 1 in the middle of the front row.


c1948 Flying boat.


Grounded For Life!


Nice racing car. France.


Print bought in a Paris flea market. Date on the back (written in French) : ''18 Juillet 1954''


Print bought in Paris. No inscription on the back. The number 75 on the license plate indicates that the car was registered in Paris.

Mart.

 

DDDon's too old to learn new tricks, it's Mart's fault for posting more than one image at a time!

 

Great!---At 80--School me!!!

 

Here's one on it's own.



All right lets make it two..



Didn't expect to see Thunderbirds and Lincolns coming down the same line.

But yes (a third one) A few years later. Ford's Wixom plant. Lincs and Birds.



Sorry it's a biggie!

Mart.

 

Those of us born before ww11 had to learn what you young kids grew up with. Thanks us for the freedom that you have.

 

gottlieb Daimler's first patented motorcycle

 

Had a '46 exactly like this one with a 318/747 in it, less the bumper guards.

 

Looks like Connie Stevens ????

 

Jayne Mansfield.

 

New York City, 1940

 

Studebaker Assembly Plant Vernon, California