VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Still going strong

 

After WW2 Larry Shinoda got into the Southern California hot rod scene, and built several hot rods named “Chopstick Specials.” He won his class in the 1955 NHRA Nationals in a 1924 Ford roadster powered by an Ardun V-8.

 

And then designed the '63 Corvette.

 

#57, the Atlas Chrome Special, with a cool front end. The Atlas Chromium Plating Service 1931 Dodge panel tow-truck with a 1933 Ford grille on it.

 

The 1932 roadster from So-California Plating Co. rpu was designed by George DuVall.

 

still there a 100 years later

 

A gas station sign so damn big, airplanes used it as a landmark. Photo taken in 1946


It was installed in 1932, it was 70 feet tall, with 5200 light bulbs, and 2900 hundred feet of neon tube

 

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the Airplane Super Service Station in Salt Lake City

 

back when you could pay Disney for licensing rights and use Mickey and Donald to advertise oil

 

Interesting. These days the caption would likely say the incorrect: handfuls

 

I remember those days when the railroads were crossing over from steam

 

Streetcar employee strike 1955 LA

 

Same hoodlum 5 years later,got a real job and car payments. 315 horse 348, 4 speed 4.56 posie.

 

Jimmy Nix, on right, to Jim Johnson the other team driver- “Hey Jim, the factory just sent me a telegram, we are supposed to stay away from Jack Chrisman’s Comet.”
Jim Johnson to Nix- “No s#!t Jimmy, that Comet is bad ass!”

 

....and the BOSS 302 Mustang and the 1969 Z/28 Camaro...
Yep! The same 2 cars that dualed it out for the SCCA Trans-Am racing series in '69....

 

1954 VW-Porsche Escher Kleinbahn Prototyp


. These Were Little trains built from 1954 to 1971 and were used in parks and botanical gardens. It pulled three cars which had space for 90 passengers. Its not a accident that the design of the locomotive looks like a cross between the legendary TEE train and the Porsche 356. This locomotive was powered by a VW industrial engine