VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Unlike today I think A/C was only on about 15% of the 1964 Chevys sold.

 

Rust Heinz, the ketchup king, designed not only the 1938 Phantom Corsair (a weird car in its own right) but this delivery truck, called the Comet. As Daniel Strohl has pointed out, the 1938 Comet was built on an Autocar chassis, and if Rust Heinz hadn't died in a car crash in 1939 at age 25, the company would probably have commissioned a fleet of these vehicles.

 

Honest Charley Hisself, aka Charles Edward Card Jr., owned a mail-order speed shop in Chattanooga and sold parts through Hot Rod and other magazines. Charley also owned a restaurant, so he customized various cars and parked them around town to draw attention to both ventures. This seems to have been a 1939 Ford in a previous life.

 

Melrose, MA 1957

 

Bob, you are hurting my heart. I touched an '08 and a '10 brush today. I think I need one.

 

Three Coal Mining Women

 

I know I’m not supposed to make a comment about politics but nothing racial to see here for sure…except for one DOM

 

Hint of the fins to come..

 

Walter Brennan

 

Any bets on “rust”?

 

Tennis racket, golf club and fly fishing gear…..great vacation

 

Walla Walla, WA

New fire truck was tested at Jefferson Park Pond the next day after its arrival on July 10th, 1961. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

 

Lyons Ferry, Walla Walla