Vintage shots from days gone by!

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THAT is one cooooool shop!!!

 

I think it is Red Byron.

 

Oakland gangbangers are still doing that today...only they keep the heat under there coats.

 

Sorry not too familiar with this kind of forum and how best to respond - was looking at photos and found one from 1-6-13 posted by Nitro Nick - you said the photo was of your wife in the 50s at the Long Beach Pike - that's not the Pike -that was taken over on Terminal Island in a shopping/eating area. We went there tons - it had my mom's favorite clam chowder - I recall everything about the place vividly. My dad spent a lot of time there in WWII - and I had 2 cousins stationed there in the Navy in the 50s we used to pick up and bring home with us a lot. Your wife might have gone to both places and mixed them up.

 

Seeing the assembly line photos just got me to thinking...
After working on old cars for the last 40 plus years, it's hard to imagine any of those cars that actually had a "new car smell' at one time. An original old car is musty and dirty and has decades worth of dirt and crud everywhere.
But a nice, new '36 Ford or a '57 Chevy right off the showroom floor would have been great!
Any of you guys older than me have a good story for the rest of us?

 

wow! How cool!

 

Not sure if this is the right thread, but these three have the right look.

 

"Good story". You be the judge. Back in 62 the guy who operated the neighborhood service station was dabbling in the used car biz. He acquired a really clean low miles 50 Plymouth. He also had just picked up an aerosol can of, get this, NEW CAR SMELL. He could not resist spraying the 12 yr old Plymouth. The car sold quickly but I doubt that the way it smelled had much to do with it. I have never run into that stuff since in spite of having been in the auto repair biz so many years.

 

From L to R: Bill France, race director, "Red" Byron, winner of the Edward Knowles Rayson Memorial Trophy. "Red" Vogt built the car, a '39 Ford, in 48 hours.

 

Robins Speedway, Kansas, 1956



CeJay Speedway, Kansas City, 1952



More Cejay Speedway



Flat tire? What flat tire? Bill Mears, 1952



Jayhawk Speedway, 1954



32 Hudson coupe, guess they raced almost anything back then

The above pictures from "Old Stock Car Racing Photographs" at
http://winfield.50megs.com/Cowley/Old_Stockcars.html

 

In case anybody is wondering Bay Farm Island was in the '50s an unincorporated farming area near the Oakland Ca. Airport. Meaning it was out of the City limits and not tied to the gun firing restrictions of the City. It has since been developed into multiple dwelling apartments and condo's and all the open space is gone.
I remember in the middle '50s seeing two A roadster bodies sitting in a field next to a farm house there. Must have been old race cars. I was too young at the time to save them but I still wonder whatever happened to them.

Gary

 

Flat Rock Speedway

 

Hyland Park Soda Shop
Then and Now
1924 - 2012 Knox Street, Dallas, Texas Hyland Park Neighborhood.

The Construction on the right of the 1924 photo is the makings of the Soda Shop today.

3229 Knox St
Dallas, TX 75205

 

River Rouge, Mi

 

Boston

 

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1937

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1943 - IHC trucks probably for farm use or to fill military orders

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