Vintage shots from days gone by!

Either this guy lost a contact lens or lunch at Howard Johnson's didn't agree with him......

 

These are from my hometown...

 

Would you buy a car from this guy?

 

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YA! That Ranchero is killer!

 

Alright, I have no idea where this picture was taken but it took me back to my younger days. If you could go to google maps and get a street view of 936 N Mockingbird Ln, Abilene, TX...you will see the ONLY place in town that would sell shrimp pizza or canadian bacon with pineapple to some kids who asked. I wish somewhere here in Indiana would.

 

Then & now:

 

This pic is of the swedish Prince Bertil geting a customised corvette
as a gift from GM it later got a customised front and was dragraced
a lot called the snoopy i think its now restored and still in sweden

 

In many of the old photos you see very few trees,or even bushes,hedges,like it's all been clear cut.And a fair amount of trash laying around.

 

Yeah, I remember the trash everywhere.
Also note in many of the highway photos the oil stains down the center of each highway lane where oil dripped out of the vehicles. As well, note the dirt on the cars since many of the roads ouside town were still not paved. The road grit just sandblasted parts of the paint off the sides of the cars.

 

This looks same as the truck my parents said they had when they brought me home from the hospital in it. They said it was dark green.

 

My mother in 1942 at age 17 with her first car. she gave me this picture last week
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Ogunquit,Maine

 

Hollywood Freeway,mid 50s
Los Angeles,CA

 

1919
Pikes Peak Hill Climb
Pikes Peak,Colorado

 

1920
Pikes Peak Auto Summit
Pikes Peak,Colorado

 

1920
Pikes Peak,Colorado

 

1916
Paige Auto

 

early 1900,s
First automobile in town!
Meeker,Colorado

 

I'm sure some was dripping, but more was from the road draft tube as there was no PCV system and motor blowby was directed downward to the road.................