Vintage shots from days gone by!

Not a Century, one of the full size Buicks.

 

Originally Posted by dukeofearl
76-77 Buick Century think Kojak

Have you ever seen a '76 or '77 full size Buick? They are 2 totally different cars BTW and both have rectangular headlights.

It's a 72 Electra as has been stated.

 

look close that's either Aluminum or steel hulled look at the rivits along the sides.

 

yup Alky for the cooling system is what they used for antifreeze in cold weather, you had to change it out come spring or chance all the rubber in your cooling system rotting out.

 

Good eye, I think your right ... subsitute "Aluminum- Eating" with "Fiberglass-Eating" termites, from my original post! lol

I see the rivets.

 

... wow, I just re-read that, now I am really confused!

 

Looks like a Mercury 49-51 roof..... so this must be a kustomboat

 

no, i can see a split windshield, seems to be U.S. made! but a good shot for sure! waitin' for summer...

 

Ah, that rings a bell!
Out here some old timers use to put methylated spirits in their cars cooling systems during the winter "to stop it freezing"

 

Lead SD





Mobridge SD



Mitchell SD

Custer SD

 

Grants Pass OR









Eugene OR

Depoe Bay OR

Albany OR

 

Tapoco NC

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Wells NV

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Elko NV

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North Platte NE








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Colburn House, Manchester Center, Vermont

Lake Quinault Lodge, Quinault, Washington

Greyhound Post House, Mackinaw City, MI

Whitehall Resort, Palm Beach, Florida



Reversing Falls Tourist Bureau, Saint John, New Brunswick

Late '50s Borgward Isabella Station Wagon AT Ingonish Camp Grounds, Cape Breton

 

West Entrance to Algonquin Park, ON

Portland airport

 

1963 photo Crowd listens outside radio shop at Greenwich and Dey Sts. For news on President Kennedy

 

Cornelia Vanderbilt


Radio equipment on auto

1924 photo

Traffic signalling glove worn by Miss Edith Stalker of New York

1924 photo Moving Home Sweet Home

 

Howard M Gore

inside capitol dome

1924 photo Helen G. Sweeney, Adolph Busch, Joseph Gallegher, Henry Glyn

Carl. W. Mitman, Curator of Smithsonian Institution with 3-wheeled auto, 9/6/24


Black and White Taxi co.



Auto House

 

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That's a 50 Merc roof on that boat .
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Sam123 .... must be a merc-cruiser!
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Sam, now that's funny right there! Hey, folks, we have a contender
to Mart's claim as resident Wisecracker-General!


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yup Alky for the cooling system is what they used for antifreeze in cold weather, you had to change it out come spring or chance all the rubber in your cooling system rotting out.
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ScumDog -- Ah, that rings a bell!
Out here some old timers use to put methylated spirits in their cars cooling systems
during the winter "to stop it freezing"

In the early '60s, my uncle had a '53 or '54 Pontiac straight eight,
and he'd run alcohol in it in winter. I assumed it was wood alcohol,
because it sure didn't smell like grain alcohol when he's pull into
the driveway. Sad that some people still don't know the difference.
I still read stories of young people in particular drinking wood al-
cohol thinking they'll get a cheap drunk but wind up blind or dead
instead.

 

The Brox sisters




They began in the 1910s touring the Vaudeville circuit in the United States and Canada. At the start of the 1920s they achieved success in New York on the Broadway stage. Near the end of the decade they relocated to Los Angeles. The act broke up in the early 1930s after the sisters got married. They made their final professional reunion appearance on radio in 1939.

 

A jolly company, in a neighborhood of Sarvar in western Hungary, about 1910. Posted
by FlickR member ValterTorjay on a stream called Antique Photographs of Nature. (Aw,
hell. What's more "natural" than seven rollicking guys and a keg, eh? )

 

(Kinda looks like the guy on the ground was knockin' back boilermakers! )

 

Early tree-huggers have their hands full in the village of Dallovice in what is the present day
Czech Republic. Cabinet card, after 1891, posted on FlickR THANKS to the selective eye of
member JosefNovak who shows that -- thank the Lord -- the old oak STILL stands today!

Incidentally, the plaque on the tree dedicates it to German poet Theodor Korner.


NOW

 

Frederica Falls 1910, near Lawson on the Tasman Sea, NSW, thanks to the local-studies collection of the Blue Mountains Library, THANKS to whom we know the truly sweet history of this hand-colored photo image. This is a 10"-by-12" glass positive transparency by Harry Phillips, the painted effect was added around 1920, using sable brushes and Japanese colored inks, by his daughter, Isabel May (Rudge) Phillips (1903-2001) , the girl in the photo. No known copyright restrictions. Provenance: Harry Phillips, BMCC. Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/library/.

 

I was just saying it wasn't a 76 or 77 Century. I said it was a full sized car. I forgot to specify 72

 

What kinda headlights are these?