VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

. This last photo is of me in 1957

 

^^^Left or right?^^^

 

I'm the good looking older brother on the right. lol I'm wearing a bow tie to go cruising. Also here's my Mom, and our home in 1957-1958 . We seemed to dress better back then.

 

Simply put this is just wrong if it's a modified Corvette. With the fake wheel humps located that far back, there's no way you could judge where the front bumper is from drivers position. Not failing to mention it looks like hell.

When I pilled my first owned '65 Corvette into garage the first time, just as I stopped I felt a slight bump. I thought one of tires had hit something on the floor I hadn't noticed, until I got out and found the bumper had just touched front wall. Because of rounded down portion of hood and finders you had to allow a little extra perceived clearance up front. The above would have made that far worse.

 

Relax it’s a Corvair ! Designed and built by John Fitch. Do some research before down grading it. John was a American hero who did amazing things for our country.

 

Relax it’s a Corvair ! Designed and built by John Fitch. Do some research before down grading it. John was a American hero who did amazing things for our country.

 

Fitch ?

 

This is the only car that whistles" Dixie " through the 1/4 mile.

 

And Finally, a use for all those old road maps in our glove boxes.

 

1919

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1934

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National Geographic Magazine April 1961

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Here's my mom, During WW2 at a ammo depot in Topeka Ks.

 

Here's my buddy "Dean" sitting on the running board. He's 82 years old now and still kicking. I see a "For Sale Sign" in the window. Wonder how much $$ Gary

 

Thanks to your Mom for her home-front work in support of the war effort during WW II. Women were the unsung heroes of our supply chain. Anyone who denies women's contribution to our country needs to study history.

 

Ford started assembling cars in Minnesota in 1914. Here they are loading new cars on a barge on the Mississippi river. They later built a new, modern assembly line type plant in St Paul MN.

 

Here's what my 5' tall Granny was working on at the St Paul MN Ford plant during WW2. She would waterproof the gauges for oversea shipping and then drive the M8s out to the staging area for shipping.

 

He might have done amazing things for our country, but that GM Phoenix project wasn’t one of them! I can see why GM didn’t continue it.

 

Thanks to your Granny!!! I'll bet it was a hoot seeing that little woman taking charge of that thing!