Vintage shots from days gone by!

Hope I'm still on the invite list Paul.

 

Come visit us in Oregon

 

Cool Pic Lou. I grew up there and still have family in Twin. The City just demolished the Rogerson Hotel this spring to make room for "improvements"?

 

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I am wondering why there is a need for 12 volt and 6 volt batteries! 18 volt electrical system?

 

I am from Buhl and recall The Rogerson as being a stately old building but no square cars...

 

Holy Crap! I did a double take to make sure that wasn't Mom! Her & the old man always looked like that in pics of them on his Indian (yeah, saw that was a "rolls kinardly" in this image).

 

In Waterford MI, was Lotus Lake, Dixie Hwy ran right beside it. On the highway was Karen's Marina, and they had an Amphicar. Actually did see it running around out there on the water.

Anyways, for years, my buddy Brian Black tried to buy a glass Henry J front end they had stacked against the building - no go. The marina suddenly went belly up - and that's when I helped Brian load the front end up.

We put one of my Poncho motors in - first street wheelstander I ever built.

 

O/T- LOU, do you have more pics of the '40 in your avatar? That thing is sweet.

 

Guaranteed !

 

Pictures are so much better even with a short caption added....Thank you.........

 

Sadly it appears that the track at the Iowa State Fair is about to join the growing list of racing facilities that gave way to "progress".

 

In another life , this car probably inspired Faith Granger's 1932 in the movie , the Deuce of Spades ....

 

Hi Katuna.I don`t think that that is a picture of the Normandy landings.That dark line up the middle of the picture is a reef.Mulberrys were 90* to the beach,not paralel to the beach.Also notice the beach.It is not much above sea level.So,I think that that is a picture of an island landing in the Pacific.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

Connie Kalitta was a Ford man back in the ’60s and ran a couple of versions of his SOHC-powered Bounty Hunter Top Fuel dragster. In the day, you were as likely to be the owner/driver/wrench as not, and obviously from this shot you can see Kalitta was all of the above. In 1967, he won the NHRA, AHRA, and NASCAR Winternationals.

 

Orange County International Raceway

 

"Mulberry Harbour. The Allies constructed this portable, two-part temporary harbour to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo during the invasion."
http://historydaily.org/14-iconic-photos-of-dday/

 

And he parleyed that "wears every hat" into one heck of an air freight operation -

http://www.kalittacargo.com/

 

I wonder just how many "REAL STEEL" ones are still there today????

 

Got to throw a rail in here once in awhile.. Like a knucklehead it's riding a pure explosion.

 

Kalitta once fought off a hijacker in the cockpit of one of his planes. It was late on the morning of Oct. 4, 1989, when 41-year-old Allen Stahl walked into Kalitta headquarters at Willow Run Airport in Ypislanti, Mich., and inquired about renting a Lear jet so that he could fly to Washington, D.C., to "visit" the White House.

Stahl suddenly brandished a six-inch butcher knife and forced a female clerk to the floor. Kalitta was in a meeting and was quickly called to the dispatch office.

To defuse the situation, Kalitta, then 51, bravely agreed to fly the man to Washington, but he already had a plan in mind to depressurize the plane at altitude to render the man unconscious.

With the butcher’s knife pressed sharp to his ribs, Kalitta and the hijacker got into a nearby Lear, and while Kalitta was warming the engines, a state trooper, alerted by Kalitta employees, pulled up and blocked the airplane’s route with his cruiser.

“[Stahl] really went crazy” at the sight of Trooper Jerry Cooley, recalled Kalitta, “swinging the knife around” the cockpit and grabbed the engine’s throttle control and began revving the engine up and down.

Well, ol’ Conrad had finally had enough of the whole scene and attacked Stahl. While “the Bounty Hunter” was struggling with the armed man, Trooper Cooley got a mechanic to open the jet’s door and ordered Stahl to drop the knife, then took him into custody.

Kalitta, as seen in the photos that accompany both stories, was cut on his right thumb and left ring finger but not severely injured.

"When you are under pressure, you have to think well on your feet," said Kalitta, who then calmly returned to his meeting. "If you don't, you're in trouble."

Moral of the story: Don’t mess with Connie!

 

Wasn't that proposed as an alternate album cover for the Beatle's Sgt Peppers LP?
(just kidding)

 

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The famous picture of the late Malcom Brady of Columbia Tn racing at the fairgrounds in Nashville Tn . He had just blown the Olds and spun in his own oil. He was the track champion twice at the Fairgrounds and won the 1st race ever at Bristol Tn . He was my hero. Bill Sorry meant to be photo 3349848