Vintage shots from days gone by!

Customs Street Auckland New Zealand late 1950s. The Vauxhall E series - built 1952 thru '57, one of which is at lower right, was one of the best selling sedans in NZ in its day. Most street scenes from the '50s thru the '60s will usually have an example in there somewhere. The Ford utility on the left was an Australian built model, known as the Mainline. The sedan versions was the Customline.

 

Greymouth New Zealand early 1960s.

 

Johnsonville near Wellington New Zealand late 1950s.

 

Tapanui Otago New Zealand early 1960s.

 

Cambridge Waikato New Zealand 1930s

 

Taieri airport Dunedin New Zealand. A Lockheed Electra and two long wheelbase Plymouth taxis.

 

Oamaru New Zealand 1950s, the local GM dealer, which was the Buick dealer in the years before WW2. Two Vauxhall E series cars in this one.

 

Masterton New Zealand. Three Vauxhalls in this one.

 

Upper Hutt near Wellington New Zealand 1964 with a Vauxhall front and centre.

 

A 1962 shot from Hutt Valley near Wellington New Zealand with the Vauxhall at far right. A later model in the centre.

 

The opening of a local park Auckland New Zealand in 1964 with two E series Vauxhalls in view.

 

Wanganui New Zealand.

 

Modelling shoot Wellington early 1950s

 

Milk delivery trucks Wellington 1950s.

 

Palmerston North New Zealand 1965. Two Vauxhalls, a P series Velox and an F series Victor.

 

This gas station is in Sylva, NC and it still stands today, but it has been converted into a cafe'.

 

Yeller, where is this? Serious deja-vu. Is it in Vermont/New Hampshire border? When we lived n CT we used to go up I-91 to go to Maine in the western mountains and this sure looks familiar.

 

Steffen, this picture you posted cracks me up. I see the GM logo at the bottom right corner but that is my great uncle Charlie Pollard on the ground. I am not familiar with the man in the stake truck. That picture is probably close to 60 years old. I worked there in the 60s for a while and later on as well. My cousins still run the business in the same location. That truck was still there when I worked there but had been retired. Charlie was into vintage cars and fire engines and you can see one of his fire engines in the background. His brother Barney (my grandfather) was the large collector who owned hundreds of old cars.

Seeing that old derrick brings back memories. We did some crazy things with it that were dangerous as hell IMO. Charlie was a tough old guy. One day while working with the derrick and moving dump bodies I cut my head open. I had blood running down my face and Charlie took a rag and stuck his hat on top of the rag on my head so we could get back to work. My cousin Terry came out and yelled at his dad and sent me to get a couple of stitches. Crazy times.

 

His hat? Obviously the man loved you.

 

Yep, I think it's full! Gary

 

San Fernando Drag Strip, before the hay bale "guard rails" on the left side of the track Most of us gray beards remember C-T stroker cranks very well...


Grand National Roadster Show "Best Hot Rod" winner, 1960...


The back yard of Gene Winfield's family home in early 1950's.



I used to think that the best place to open a car repair business in the 1950's would be a brake shop in San Fran or a radiator shop in Barstow...

 

George Barris' first shop, when it was on Compton Blvd.




New digs...




Sid Grauman's Chinese Theater, shortly after it opened on Hollywood Blvd in 1927. It's still there, still in the same place and still showing the latest movies everyday. I love L.A...

 

Crazy story Jim. It's an official GM Photo. Perhaps you can ask your great uncle Charlie Pollard how it was made? Would be interessting.

 

Honest John. The sign should have read "49 New Caddy's and 1 Lincoln". Well, he probably wasn't honest and his name was probably not John...


This is not a used car lot, it's an auto farm, and as the sign says, Pat has a good crop. How many remember when traffic signals did not have an amber light?


Authorized by whom? Have you noticed that there are no more used cars these days, only pre-owned cars?

And the photo below, "Guaranteed Used Cars". What this meant was that it was guaranteed that the cars were used...

 

I said GET a taxi not HIT a taxi you fool!


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Growing up in Los Angeles, one of the things I remember is that grown-ups always wore hats. And the only people that wore baseball caps were guys on baseball teams...

 

Near intersection of Routes 4 and 5, White River Junction, VT.