Vintage shots from days gone by!

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Bob Woodard?

 

What a cool pic!

 

Yeah, notice the tire chains?

 

Very cool indeed!

 

That's Jose Iturbe, worl-famous concert pianist. He also was featured in movies such as "Holiday In Mexico" with Jane Powell . . .

 

Ray Brown's deuce, think this was taken at Big Bear Lake, Calif...car has been beautifully restored (but without the chrome grille shell)

 

I think our moms had more fun before we were born.

 

Photographium site has very cool photos...

 

I googled Walter Christie, clever man.
A vast majority of the new cars sold today owe some debt of innovation to J. Walter Christie, a somewhat eccentric engineer from New York who wowed crowds at the turn of the 20th century with his "freaks" &#8212; m***ive race cars built with front-wheel-drive. Despite power and speed advantages, Christie never found success with his cars, between the limitations of tires in that era and what we now know as torque steer. After a close call in a race crash, Christie turned to p***enger cars, and in 1911 designed a front-wheel-drive taxi that set a pattern for front-wheel-drive cars to this day; unfortunately, his engineering predated the invention of the U-joint, and his design never caught on.

Christie's most lasting success would come from World War II &#8212; where the Soviet Army adopted Christie's design for tanks that had been rejected by the U.S. Army. None of Christie's m***ive race cars survive today, but you can see one take a corner at 3:40 in the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XbplwxZbkys