VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Depends on what you are using to view them.
If it is on a PC you should see them.

The method I use to post doesn't work with all equipment, like phones?

 

And the attractive model standing on the brick wall 1 - 1/2 feet above driveway.

 

Infinite Lines. Mid 70's Love them. Especially on my van, 1975

 

1897 First automobile in Los Angeles

 

If you really look at '50s car advertising, you will notice, practically
all lowered the car before pictures.
Compare the wheel well to tire distance in an ad versus an ordinary
photo you can easily see it. I think this contributes to the longer look.
In the ad drawings the car is almost always elongated as well.
Just my $.02

 

I do believe that man is shifting a Duplex transmission. A fair amount of skill involved in maneuvering through the gears but a real test was the Triplex - three levers! I never drove a Triplex but I had a friend years ago that could jockey his way through one of them like a warm knife through butter.

 

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National Geographic Magazine April 1952

 

National Geographic Magazine July 1929

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National Geographic Magazine January 1958

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No side mirror, no antenna, silver grille, silver fender trim.. normal advertising of new cars..

 

Two women show uncovered legs in public for the first time in Toronto. [1937]

 

That's a riot. And years ago we passed a law in Canada allowing women to go topless in public.

 

Automotive music through the years.

Philco 920 from the 1930's



Motorola from the same time period









Then in the 1950's there were record players.................





The upgrade from records was to 8 track tape...................I guess it was a upgrade most of mine eat the tapes.




Then the Cassette tape deck my wife did nothing but complain when her 2000 Buick didn't have one, now she doesn't understand why she can't get a CD player in any new car she's looking at..................

 

actually a 1950 Crestline.....

 

a 1959 or 1960 not a 1958

 

Pictures Please

 

I drove a mack triplex for awhile when I was young, lots of short gears, lots of shifting, behind a thermodine engine. The main was slow shifting and long, the auxiliaries were very fast and short.

 

Is that a Fuzzbuster on the visor? Factory press release photos Dec. 1965

 

I drove wife’s cousins Mack Thermodine from Leemore Ca to Kingsburg Ca with a 53’ moving van trailer must be at least 30+ years ago with just a 5 speed. I had a class 1 at the time and when he found out he let me drive..Never shifted the dam thing. Weirdest combo I ever drove..

 

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