VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Duesenberg aero engine

 

'56 Olds Golden Rocket

 

1954 salt flats

 

Man painting a car top, San Antonio 1939

 

That's quite a scene. The mountains for a backdrop. Packard on the right and other cars and the ladies all dressed up walking along. Different time and culture for sure.

 

Pic***o's Hispano Suiza

Here the artist and his son Paul is pictured with his 1930 Hispano-Suiza type H6B with coachwork by Henri Binder on the Cote d’Azur in 1953.

Quote from Pic***o's biographer John Richardson: "Here was a man mad about cars, yet when he purchased his top-of-the-range (1930) Hispano Suiza he decided that driving it would be bad for his hands and so he had to employ a chauffer."

 

Elkhart Lake

 

ex-army '41 to become Milthorpe Spl. '48,

and eventually John O'Niell's ' first Hot Rod type vehicle in Australia '
(Custom Rodder, Autumn 1968)

 

Once apon a time.....

 

"We warned you!"

 

LOL that little boy squatting down could be me. I was fascinated by "Snakes"

 

That's how I remember big trucks creeping up a steep grade in the middle of summer.

 

Hopefully it was a 6 cyl. all door.

 

Creede Colorado 1940

 

1960's, Chicago, Maxwell Street