Why can't someone invent a time traveling machine so we could go back to that cool era. I'm still wearing the same Levis, deck shoes and a white tee shirt today in my 80's that the kid was wearing holding up the bike. It was a hell of a lot better then the world we live in today.
In the first photo of the guy watching the timing device, I see a bottle of pop, a pack of Lucky Strikes, and what is the small bottle?
Can't tell for sure, but it looks like it might be Campho Phenique. Used it a lot as a kid. Google says: Campho-Phenique is an over-the-counter topical antiseptic and pain-relieving medication used primarily to treat cold sores, fever blisters, insect bites, minor burns, and s****es. Formulated with camphor and phenol, it works by numbing nerve endings for immediate pain/itch relief and acting as an antiseptic to prevent infection.
I was ****ed into the link below and thoroughly enjoying the never ending journey. Over 700 pages of photos of automotive history. Not with your keen eye on racing but amazing to see how these vehicles endured real life during their time period! Worth looking at! https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/
That bottle of pop looks to be a Pepsi bottle. The design of the logo and bottle place the date somewhere between 1956-1957.
Ryan, what's going on with the last pic? It looks like it was doctored up, kinda looks "super imposed"... Is that from the developing that created those dark & lights like that? Or, the transition to digital that makes it look that way? 3blap.
Snap out of it?……..Not likely. These things are just as addictive as any other vice a fella might have. They are much less destructive though. Keep digging. Keep posting. We are right there with you. Great pics btw.
Back then, photographs in newspapers weren’t printed as photographs at all. They were broken down into halftones, tiny dots that a press could actually reproduce. Before that conversion happened, some poor soul in the art department would go in and “fix” things. Marker. Paint. Whatever it took. And on the original print, it usually looked like hell. Crude. Obvious. Almost insulting. But once it got run through the halftone process, those heavy-handed corrections disappeared into the dots, and the image came out cleaner. Better. Like the damage never happened. What you’re looking at here is one of those in-between pieces. A printed photo that’s been worked over and prepped for halftone. The part you were never really supposed to see.
That was my thought as well... Clutch, flywheel, bellhousing… who the hell knows. But something in there is coming apart, and it’s not doing it quietly.
Thanks for the response! Yeah, I don't think I have seen that stage before, at least not knowingly. 3blap.
I'm just amazed that you are behind 8 years on your email... You wacky popular kids Now, back to these great pics. Hard to replicate this kind of gold. One thing I think guys often omit or just don't generally pay attention to, is bobbed fenders. They were a big part of hot rodding. Guys were seeing just how much they could get away with cutting away.
The thing is, you'd still be the same age when you time traveled back, and then you'd be the old guy dressed like a kid. Any self respecting man your age would be wearing a tie and coat and a big fedora. These are great photos. You can spend a lot of time looking at the edges and backgrounds for interesting details.
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