Vintage shots from days gone by!

The ladies then had a very plain and natural beauty. Very nice!

 

This could be me in an earlier life......standing in the middle of the shop wondering where I laid that 9/16 wrench?

Car on the left is a pre '24 Overland.....

 

"Hot Rod" Lincoln...

 

Could be worse.

So, the boss asked Louie why he threw his breaker bar down to the ground, Louie replied
"I dropped my 5/8" socket, did you think I was gonna come down just for that".

Vintage 2002 photo.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wonder if that one was HEMI powered?

 

Good picture. Dont see that one much,, Willie Borsch

 

I remember those Atlas tires wrapped with paper. You would raise them above your head then slam them onto the shop floor and the paper would split open.

 

That is what a Fuel Altered driver should look like!

 

Short answer....YES!

 

"No"????? Here's the original

Sorry Olio, I have to disagree. It ain't Chicago!

Here's a shot from one block North, from early 60's. Don't know how or why it's on a Chicago site. That's the iconic vertical lift Alsop (aka Main Street) Bridge. Born there in '46, lived there until 70's. Family still lives there.
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Great Bend,Kansas 1955 Nationals

 

That is my dad and his partner who built that car. It ran AA Altered in Edmonton, Calgary, and Spokane. They ran a 392 Hemi and were the first in Western Canada to run a blower in their class. The car doesn't have the blower in that photo. Add was in his late teens when he and Tony built this car.