Vintage shots from days gone by!

1964 Bennington VT

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The helmet makes me say Pearson.

 

Actually, this is a '61-2 MGA Mark II.

 

1940 Benton Harbor MI

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1939 near San Antonio TX - I want that V8 emblem!

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1944 blizzard, Rochester NY

 

1940 Migrant fruit pickers in Michigan

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1957 SanClemente CA

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1942

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photo: LIFE online archives​

 

1943 Rubber & scrap drive for war effort

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1942

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1942 - Effects of gas rationing?

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Main St Lockport NY

Lockport train station, now a burned out shell.

 

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Some B24 nose art

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1942 - P38 Lightning partial assembly

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That bus is sooo coool! But,
damn it......what'd ya' have to
go and post a pic of it for?? I've
never seen, or even heard of a
'Pickwick Stages double-decker
bus before....but now that I
have....I want one.....I NEED
ONE....Ahhhg...no....I GOTS
TO....I GOTS TO...I GOTS TO
HAVE ONE!!!

Mart3406
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1942

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1927 - On November 13, the Holland Tunnel opened to traffic. It was the first mechanically ventilated underwater vehicular tunnel, and it was also the first Hudson River crossing in New York City.

 

1943 Paperboy on scrap drive

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photo: LIFE online archives​

 

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Found some interesting stuff at www.oldcarsweekly.com titled as Dad’s Desirable Drivers



This photo of the first Packard Darrin was taken with trees as a backdrop in
St. Petersburg, Fla., around 1943. Notice the car’s eteneral exhaust pipes and
how daily use was affecting the paint, evident by the lifting paint on the fender skirt.


The 1939 Packard Super Eight Darrin is pictured here against
the buildings of downtown Miami around 1940.

This 1940 photograph shows the 1939 Packard Darrin after it
had just been purchased by David Osborne Hutchinson III from a
Hollywood car dealer. It is shown with Hutchinson’s 1936 Auburn
Speedster before it burned in a body shop fire.



Another photo of the 1939 Packard Super Eight Darrin.

 

some more from the same source:


The author, David Osborne Hutchinson IV, with his father’s second Packard
Darrin, a 1941 One-Eighty victoria, in 1946. The author rode in this car as
a child for close to five years.


Eventually, the colors of the 1941 Packard Darrin were reversed
from a white body and black top to a black body and a white top.
The author is shown here with his grandmother, Mrs. A.T. Hutchinson,
who used the car every day. This circa-1950 photograph was taken just
before the car was driven to Miami to be sold. The author notes:
"Grandmother was hard on whitewall tires. Remember, the Darrin did
not have power steering… I often helped with the wheel when parking."


This factory photo shows one of the 12 Count Alexis de Sakhonoffsky-designed
1940 Nash Ambassador victorias (six were sold and the remaining six were
converted back to Ambassador convertible coupes). One of these cars was
owned by David Osborne Hutchinson III, but no photos are known to exist
of his car.

from www.oldcarsweekly.com look for Dad’s Desirable Drivers

 

You sure that is Linda Vaughn? I thought Linda had bigger... errr... Hair.

 

Thanks again for another great shot, Ron! i can't decide since 20 Years for 'love' or 'don't like' these 1937 Stude Dictator Coupe..think i love it..it was a unique "face" in the croud!

Carsten