Vintage shots from days gone by!

No they wont they were junk even before they left the factory
the quality they have make cheap chinese crap looks like
high quality aircraft parts

 

Wow! Even trikes had ute body styles in Oz.

 

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Life on the Canadian Home Front, 1941-1945

 

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Proud to stand beside our Brothers,

-For Democracy

 

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Smoke Break!

 

The first chopper, and banana seat ?

 

That was how I saved the picture. First Chopper! Very cool photo.

 

Photoshopped probable acme.cobblers

 

I have an old friend or is it friend that is old . Anyway he helped work on the car and was a longtime friend of Dave Anderson . He said the same thing about the location of the crew and that Anderson should have never run that track

 

nope 2000 J-Rads were built 1922-3 until breaking front ends became a safety issue. Streamlining pioneer and Designer Paul Jaray maintained this was due to poor material.

Testing the effects of streamling on pedestrians...



truth is stranger than photoshop

 

Jaray inspired 1st Chrysler Airflow built by Ventetian hot rodders...





http://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-origins-of-streamline-design-in-cars-2998.html#image6

 

Additionally, I heard some talk there (which I was) to the effect that there was some desire to see a 1/8th mile track record set. This was monumentally poor judgment for a strip that puts one immediately onto a banked oval facing brick walls and guard rails with no provision for runoff or escape (take a google earth image view of CMS to see what I'm talking about). Ill handling cars like dragsters in general and rocket cars in particular are poorly suited to negotiate turns at high speed on a banked surface. (if there's a worse suited run scenario, it doesn't come readily to mind.). Additionally, the reported wreckers in the runoff area can only be reported by people who were not there. No such vehicles were present in the area. The only cars in the shutdown area were: 1. a streetcar 2. A breadvan pulling a trailer with a doorslammer on it, and a low level dragster perpendicular to the track with two crewmen suspending the front wheels of the dragster and the driver at the back of the vehicle. Moments later, the PolPacker strikes the two front crewmembers and dragster from end rotating it 90 degrees to be parallel with the strip and the PolPacker striking the grandstand was in the vicinity of the "Winston" lettering. Both crewmen were killed instantly, one largely severed in two. Officials should never had permitted those vehicles to be in that area and survival instincts would suggest that it's not in ones own interest to position yourself thusly. This was the wrong venue for high performance cars in the first place,and the officials/track marshals were negligent in monitoring where support vehicles and cars could be placed in the vicinity of the shutdown area. The event was poorly conceived and managed. Getting some runs at the CMS venue was paramount, when in fact, there was a perfectly suitable 1/8 mile strip just up the road on Highway16 at Shuffletown that did have adequate shutdown facilities. This did not serve Mr. Carrier's agenda, however.

 

I don't know where this is, but Will Manley, my favorite librarian columnist, had it in his blog. WillManley.com is an entertaining look at being a librarian.

 

Curtiss P-40 Flying Tiger American Volunteer Group----China

 

Achtung Hilda? Don't you mean "Achtung Herman"...................(Goering)

Doc.

 

1938 near Columbus OH. Buckeye Lake Park

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1938 Central Ohio

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1938 Circleville, OH

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1938 LosAngeles CA area:

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photo: LIFE online archives​

 

1939 Monticello FL

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1939 near Tampa FL

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OKAY. . . .

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photo: LIFE online archives

 

1960 Santa Barbara CA

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photo: LIFE online archives​

 

1954 West Hartford CT

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photo: LIFE online archives​