Vintage shots from days gone by!

What a waste! I'd love to have this car! Probably stolen then abandoned.

 

YIKES!!

 

Uh.....just don't see this kind of thing much anymore.

 

VAMPIRA!! I had a boss that actually dated her, he had some.....interesting stories.

 

How cool is this?

 

I just had it rebuilt!

 

Ats'a Ferrari!

 

Not a Ferrari!

 

^^Holy crap!!! A Testarossa!!!!

 

May 22, 1960: UCLA researchers Richard D. Hopa, left, and Hiroshi Kimura demonstrate a new anti-smog device developed for automobiles.
“The device consists of a narrow tube to carry the exhaust gas forward from the tailpipe to the carburetor,” Fuller explained. “At the intake manifold a valve is installed to meter the flow of exhaust gases so that these can mix with the regular air-fuel mixture.”

Introduction of the cooled exhaust gases into the intake system of cars eradicates most of the oxides of nitrogen.

Once refined, this nitrogen oxide control technique, now called exhaust gas recirculation, was introduced in many vehicle engines in the early 1970s.

 

This is from a Long Beach/Signal Hill refinery fire in 1958.

 

WOW! Full service.

 

1940 closure of Ridge Route

Dec. 16, 1940: Motor vehicles are halted at Gorman by the first major storm of the season. Chains were required to proceed north.
I can relate! I drove my OT Mustang GT with defiantly NOT snow tires over the pass on I-5 after the March Meet one year.

 

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We wear short shorts........

 

"Billy, it's me or that car........."

 

Did you build model cars in the 60's? Auto World's owner Oscar Koveleski's race car