VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Bonneville, 1961, the Juggers Racing Team

 

600 feet long, 80 feet high, over the Pic river near Heron Bay was a good start, but then, the Mountain Creek Bridge went 163 feet high, and 1068 feet long

 

Wingfoot Express on the salt flats at Bonneville, Utah, 1964. Walt Arfons (left) and Tom Green pose with their jet-powered land speed record car.

 

Thanks for the reminder. I forgot about that one!

 

Pepsi advertising campaign, somewhere in Ghana, Africa 1959.

 

this guy figured out the way to a girls heart, dune buggy rides





Michigan, 1941

 

Handover: A team of female workers are seen preparing to take over responsibility for aircraft maintenance at a U.S. base during the Second World War

 

Teaching those fine young ladies the virtue of the 5 cylinder Kinner in the PT-22 I believe.

 

I believe that young man behind the wheel has lifted some iron. A few sets of many reps….

 

The story of it's capture is an interesting read. She was boarded and taken captive by a baby flat-top carrier (built by Kaiser in Vancouver, WA) and towed by a few different vessels, under extreme secrecy. Quite the story, including an initial reprimand for the skipper of the aircraft carrier.

 

^^^^^^

 

48 Star flag. So at least earlier than Dec 1958

 

She's having a riot!....

 

"It's MINE all MINE"