VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

That’s one tall dude.

 

Italian actor Renato Salvatori and a Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder - Italy 1961

 

This is why we are in the shape we are in today

 

Mickey Mantle and his son Danny June 1965​

 

Home Trailer Camp in McAllen Texas in 1944

 

1908 Packard in front of the Packard building.​

 

Actor Craig Stevens and a Jaguar MK2 in London, UK - January 1963​

 

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1933 Chevrolet Assembly Plant​

 

I was thinking the same thing. I'm 6' 157 lbs and I can barely fit behind the wheel of my '55 post with it all the way back.

 

A Douglas SBD Dauntless of Marine squadron VMB-2 crashed into a house at Rockwell Field, California. Early-1941.​

 

Even better, it was the assembly line that Chevrolet built for part of the GM exhibit area at the 1933-‘34 Chicago Century Of Progress.

 

Maybe ‘55 Chevies didn’t have much legroom?
I’m 6’2 185 lbs and fit fine behind the wheel of a ‘57 sedan.

 

Don,,

 

Peter Sellers and a Ferrari 275 GTB, summer 1965

 

Some one is “auditioning”….

 

1887​

 

George Barris customized Continental for Jayne Mansfield.​