Vintage shots from days gone by!

And open windows for the rest of the trip.

 

Wow....F-Type Victor in the foreground - cool

 

Love that pink '58

 

10-4

 

Syd Barrett, co-founder of the band Pink Floyd, with his Pontiac.

















"I was meant to go and shoot Syd Barrett upstairs in his flat, but when I saw this car outside I thought: “**** it – I need to take pictures of that, too.” It was an incredible prop to have plonked there. If I recall correctly, it was a Pontiac Parisienne, a push-****on convertible, and it was pink. Mickey Finn, who became the bongo-player for T-Rex, had picked it up at an auction, and Syd had swopped his Mini for it. But he didn’t have a clue how to drive this m***ive American car, and it basically didn’t work anyway. You can see the back wheel is a bit wonky. Eventually, it got towed."

 

The car does not look pink to me - May be the only pink was floyd?
Sad that Syd eventually "got towed" as well... Too fast, too much drugs, went nuts.

 

Earl Scheib, he started out at $19.95 for a paint job. Look up Scheiß to see what it means in English.
The paint jobs were exactly that.

 

I'm at page 2944.......and you are talking 4495, that is a lot of pages missing?

 

I see people to this day that clear their cars off like this, sometimes even less.

 

It's the Lyle Lovett look. All the rage. ; )

 

No grease on clothes or themselves......

 

LOL

 

^^^ If they'd just tried a lace pattern, they'd have been onto something!

 

"YEP TOM"-----Clyde Barrow just sent me a note from 2nd grade, wants to know more about a V-8 motor.

 

1964 my brother took his grey/white top '57 mor door Chev to them. Had it painted black $29.95.
Drove it to work the day after it got painted....came home and 90% of the roof peeled off in the wind.
No sanding let alone a wash job before applying the paint.
Took it back and they shot the roof again.....this time it stayed on!

 

What's that old adage... "You get what you pay for."