Vintage shots from days gone by!

Looks like somebody bought one of those Prefix's.

 

At Whisky Creek, Karamea, Buller district, West Coast, 1930s

 

GM's 1954 Motorama featured Frigidare's "Kitchen of Tomorrow"

 

"In May of 1963, the designers in the Advanced Cadillac Studio were working on ideas for a V-16 roadster. Full size, air brushed renderings like this example were based on small sketches and could take two or three days to produce."


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Highway near Crab Creek, Columbia Basin

 

not quite. As stated, Packard built Merlins under license once Rolls Royce suggested fitting a pair of Mustang I's with Merlin 65's and noted the exceptional performance. These were not minimal changes - not only the nose but the structure and cooling ducting was changed. The Allison-powered Mustangs were no slouches below 11,000 feet.

Packard also made many improvements to the Merlin to make it easier to build - changes Rolls did later.

This book covers this and much more:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580071902/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

I have done a lot of extensive research into how the L'Universal was ever built . At one time , 1978 in Houston , I had constructed a 1-1 clone of the body . I have only a 1-25th scale model any longer as I could never find a suitable transaxle . On the prototype , a special version of the Pontiac Tempest was experimented with . The power plant was indeed , a Pontiac 289 V-8

 

Some famous LandRover owners. Wonder who actually got mud on their shoes.

 

Does anyone know some Details about "Miss Rheingold"?

 

Finish off the American Merlin factory

 

Dick Brannan's 1966 AFX Mustang after flipping over May 1966 from John A Lacko US 131 D



Dick Brannan's 1966 AFX Mustang leaves the line on its first pass after unloading May 1966 from John A Lacko



Brannan is helped out of the wreck after flipping it at the end of his first run.

 

Main St., Rangeley, Maine.
Hasn't changed much.

 

From the 1964 movie, "The Tiger Loves Fresh Meat".

 

Thanks for the Merlin photos. Beautiful engines.
My grandad worked at RR in london during ww2 refurbushing merlin engines.
My dads house bell is a merlin cylinder liner.
Ive got a sodium filled merlin exhaust valve on my desk along with its aponents valve (mechersmitt 109) along with a round of which each one fired.

 

Aw come on Bomb, your killing me! I'll bet there wasn't one housewife in the neighborhood that thought she was good looking and their husbands probably "agreed".

 

40two "Ronnie and Nancy????? or am i wrong?

You're both wrong, it's Ron and Jane Wyman. His first wife.

 

Here you go. Rheingold was based out of New York, the Miss Rheingold contest was a really big deal. The beer was good too. http://missrheingold.com/

 

German origin! I expected this.
Thanks, 4everblue for the link.

 

Lagers usually are.

 

Because 19th Amendment...

 

Yes....he IS wrong. It is Ronnie and his first wife, Jane Wyman.