Vintage shots from days gone by!

img138 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

Yeah,---I know,---Edsel's working on a V8 prototype!

 

Jeff Wassow's T??????

 

Can't tell you much about the car but the driver is Rosie Roussel and the track is indeed a horse track=Bay Meadows in NorCal. I suspect it's a Pacific Coast AAA big car meet. The 3 holes in the center of the hood and 3 visable exhaust pipes on the left would indicate to me it's probably a 3x2 flatty powered car. Also the wide track rear axle kinda suggests it might have been a converted track roadster, which wasn't uncommon back in the early 50s.

 

off topic...not our vintage..
lots of late 70's /early 80's cars.....

.someones "unusual daily driver spotter " pic.........

 

1955 Pontiac Safari

 

What a shot in the gut! Ugh!!!!

 

Olio my knowledge of Ramblers is pretty slim but I do remember running a Scrambler Rambler or whatever they were called with the snorkel hoodscoop and the 390 in that car shocked me as to how quick it was. I assumed incorrectly I guess that this car may have had the 390.

 

Schlitz the beer that made Milwaulkee famous.

 

3 exhaust pipes on the drivers side ain't no Wayne...

 

I love this..when real sprint cars showed up on open trailers towed by a pickup.

 

Son, I'm going to have to take you in, there aren't enough tickets in my book to cover everything thst's wrong with this vehicle!

 

So what exactly would have been illegal with this vehicle in '42-47? It appears to have lights and brakes. He is probably checking the kid's license and the vehicle in general. There was no mandatory insurance in those days. It looks like it would have been fun.

 

First photo is a Singer

 

this one reminds me of the wonderful movie "the thrill of it all" starring Doris Day and James Garner, who sinks his fifty-eight conv in the pool

 

Not on a big block (348)

 

Yes That and later the Twister...One of my favorites with the blower you could hear it above the other cars

 

Moriarity, hope you don't mind me fixing up some of the more badly faded/washed out car show shots:





(Was going to post these a couple days ago but got behind )

 

Uh.......

 

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