Vintage shots from days gone by!

Chevy Chase MD

Coronado CA



Las Vegas 1948

 

That must be a fair way back on the thread! What page are the comics on?

Doc.

 

Delaware









Dover

Wilmington

 

HAha, thanks guys! At least I know what the bumpers are!

 

Wow! Bob's got all the McKinnon info and history anybody could need! Thanks, Bob!

Another RARE bit of Stude-in-Canada TRIVIA that I ran across MANY years ago and never again. When the bean counters who'd decided to continue Stude's EXIT from the auto industry -- instead of hanging in as Egbert had advocated -- they had one important cost-cutting/engineering hurdle to clear. That was adapting a GM engine to the Borg-Warner transmissions (if memory serves, this applied to the standards, if not automatics as well), since there would be no more Studebaker engines produced.

The problem was soved when they found that Checker Motors already had cleared this hurdle themselves by producing a mating plate to marry the B-W bell pattern to the GM block and bolt pattern. A deal was worked out. (This might be handy info for guys wanting to put an SBC into Studes of the mId-'50s through '64.)

(Of course, then, one might argue, the '65 and '66 Studes were pretty much assembled cars. Doesn't matter to me; SOME Studebaker is better than NO Studebaker. I wish they'd continued, ChevyBakers or not. Once you leave the car business, it's hell to put all the logistics and facilities back in place.)

 

Did somebody say BUMPERS???
Sounds like a trigger word!



"Slowly I turned!
Step by step!
Inch by inch!"


Pic thanks to MPTVImages.com




History of this OLD, long-running gag here:

<DL><DT>"Slowly I Turned": A Piece of America's Pop Culture</DT></DL>

 

BTW, that link takes you to -- guess what? -- a NIAGRA FALLS newspaper article! LOL

 

Early Dr Who?

 

"take me to your leader"!!

 

Hope this is ok to post here......I think you guys will like this!

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45764

Not all HAMB friendly, but quite a few are! Neat website in general!

 

Yeah....those bumpers are ACTUALLY from a ...........

 

Dam great pics!!!!

 

There needs to be a new issue with the Daimler "Smart" car on it as the poster child for how to blow 4B Euros.

 

No, they are not....

 

Clearly their from a whatchamacallit!!

Doc.

 

The Sand Springs Railroad in 1967 just west of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

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The dyno-wheel motor bus is a revolution in mass transport. The driver may not be able to see to turn right, the drive mechanism may take up so much space that there's only room for four passengers, and getting in and out involves an undignified scramble through a door ten feet off the ground, but on the plus side it... There's... That is...
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Your new car for 1942 as seen by Detroit in 1940. Streamlined, spacious, and air conditioned, it's newly-designed rear-engine drive with automatic transmission promises to be the epitome of comfort and style.

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The car of fifty years hence will be genteel; far more suited to a night at the opera than blowing down the motorway. The emphasis will be on spaciousness; a bubble canopy for clear views, and if speed is required, then helicopter blades are the obvious answer. I doubt if any of this makes up for the appalling hats, though.

 

Wheels? Those are so 20th century. What you really want is the Ford Leva; the car that floats on a thin film of air as it sails along effortlessly. ​

True, it can only go in circles on the custom built track and has no luggage space, but it has super jet exhausts and can seat up to one person.

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The Atmos. Another of those wonderful fin-mad cars of the '50s. If the Jetson's bubble canopy or the jet fighter pilot driver's seat didn't sell you, then those needle-sharp protrusions on the front will. Why knock down pedestrians when you can skewer them outright? Progress!

 

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If you're going to the movies or to outer space, then the Ford Futura is the one for you. Its bucket seats go one better than our competitors with the patented Silence Domes&#8482;. These eloquently formed glass bubbles seal you off from your passenger and eliminates all that tedious conversation that ruins so many long road trips. If the Futura looks familar, then you've been watching too much '60s television. The prototype Futura was recycled by Hollywood for the Batman television series as the legendary Batmobile. There its sleeks lines and bold looks were offset by its appalling handling and its tendency for its brakes to fail and send it crashing through the back of the Batcave.
Holy no fault insurance!

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An especially nice feature of the Bat Cave&#8482; is the presence of so much randomly assembled laboratory glassware performing no discernible purpose. Especially nice is the open beaker on an elevated burner hoop (connected in some vague means to a burette) with no burner gas supply anywhere in sight. Exceeded only by "Quincey, M.E." for unrelated equipment randomly positioned and apparently acquired at a lab surplus salvage yard. Ed Wood would be impressed!