VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

1937 Oldsmobile COE bus postal delivery

 

And thus the face plant was invented.

 

never could figure out what sadist designed those things

 

Well, to do wheelies . . . with the rear wheel.

 

Graham and Dodge Brothers exhibit at the Buenos Aires Motor Show, November, 1925











These photos were found in Uruguay a couple years ago, and published in the ACA magazine

 

rail inspection cars

 

They still look like a bunch of yuppies in that picture lol.... they need leather jackets

 

1927 Farmall, this is the bare bones basics

 

Cleaning the giant Studebaker on display at the Century of Progress World’s Fair, 1933, Chicago.

 

1930s IH firetruck

 

That's way too low.. .

 

1st Armored had a band... with jeeps!

 

R

 

The real fighting boys could have used those.... The war could have been over much sooner.....

 

It is a posed photo likely for a magazine. The photographer wanted everyone to look nice. They decided not to dirty them up so as not to offend the residents of Owensboro, KY.

 

Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930

 

the first gas station that was designed to sell gas was at the intersection of Baum Boulevard and St. Clair Street in East Liberty, Pittsburgh

 

in the wartime regulations for the use of fabric and rubber, some companies were cut off, others made hay while the sun shined... and Coles of California doubled down. Then were making bikinis, and when the war broke out, made parachutes too... all out of the same Nylon fabric

 

Miss Lace, a character from a comic strip by the artist who made Terry and the Pirates, was graciously conferred by the artist to a Lt who requested its use for his B 17

 

Damn i was being funny! You'd think I kicked somebody's dog. And if you're trying to jab back at me, it's Owingsville Ky. I retract my yuppie label, those are some bad *** looking hoodlums right there! (Is that better?)

 

You gotta wonder how this one came out. YIKES.

 

Ralph Earnhardt

 

Run for it guys, they're Zombies!!!!

 

@Lloyd's paint & gl***
Back pedaling doesn't become you.... Stand up like ya got a pair, man!!

 

Man I would!! But this kind, nice, sensitive bunch of hoodlums get offended easily. I picture a bunch of guys in skinny jeans, smoking cigarettes, riding scooters.

 

The car is photographed in Motor Trend, August 1958, pp.38-39, where it is thus described: "A spectacular showpiece is this Fiberglas-bodied two-seater, which was designed and rebuilt for Marie 'The Body' MacDonald at the request of husband-shoe manufacturer, Harry Karl. Barris is well-know for his high-gloss, mirrored exterior finishes; this Le Mans Cadillac is painted with crushed platinum dust and trimmed with 24-karat gold and platinum accessories. The removable top is transparent Plexiglas. The interior features a TV set, bar, and tape recorder, as well as a full range of instruments." As you can see, body #1was considerably restyled, particularly in the body sides and rear areas; the ostentatious Plexiglas hard-top adds to its unique looks.
I believe the car was later lost several years ago in a fire.

Marie "The Body" McDonald