Vintage shots from days gone by!

Yep, like this would really have taken place. Uh-huh.



Viv: "Are your sure you've got the spark on?"
Di: "Yeah, yeah. Try putting your hand over the carb while you crank it."
Viv: "It could be flooded. Hey, wait a minute. Carb? Hell, there's no engine!"
Di: "Never mind. Let's get the roll-back. BUT, we're not roddin' something
this sweet. Let's RESTORE it!"

 

Thanks for this, Rocky. Paul LeMat had to be the best-cast actor in this movie. Plus, he got most of the cool, period-correct lines of dialog, too!

 

Its an Australian built Royal Australian Air Force, GAF (Government Aircraft Factory) MK20/21 Canberra bomber.

Doc.

 

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(PS: ALSO, looks like a lot of '60s/'70s Pontiac genes in that
'42 Cyclone! Just like people in movies & TV, the "creative"
people in the auto industry have always watched what each
other was doing, just like a hawk! Someone once said,
"There's nothing 'new' under the sun!" )
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Following on the earlier post, s'more info on one of the rarest DeSotos ever.

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The ONLY year with retractible headlamps, and SUPER-rare in 'vert form!
I've always been of the opinion that this was the production version of the
DeSoto Cyclone, designed by Alex Tremulis. Though I love the '46-8 De-
Sotos, they unfortunately dropped the headlight treatment in order, I sup-
pose, to get brand new cars out as fast as possible after the war.

'42 DeSoto Cyclone concept​

These DeS promo postcard and ad images thanks to DeSoto historian and enthusiast Alden
Jewel on FlickR who's ALWAYS looking fo more '42 DeSoto literature, pix and info about
this war-shortened model year!


Riding a tad high, compared to the above cool postcard image, aren't ya?




We love [FONT=Comic Sans MS, sans-serif]THEN&NOW[/FONT] images, right? Below is not only
a '42 DeSoto but the rarest one of all.


The Creme de la Creme of pre-war DeSoto! 1942 DeSoto
Fifth Avenue, photos thanks to HAMBer SunRoofCord.






Terrific crystal hood Ornament (Yup, on a DeSoto!)


Early hidden headlights behind those faded, now-gray covers.



Coolest steering wheel, it was designed to be helpful to smokers,
the bottom section in the steering wheel is a cigarette dispenser.



There were just 568 DeSoto convertibles built in the war-
shortened '42 model year. Of that, just 79 were the
Fifth Avenue edition!

Via: http://www.kitfoster.com/archive/200...1_archive.html
Photos courtesy of Wayne Graefen

 

I've always been fascinated by the mind and career of Joe Washington
Frazer, the man who named the Plymouth line, and former righthand man
to Walt Chrysler. Without Joe Frazer, steel and shipbuilding mogul Henry
J. Kaiser probably couldn't have gotten into the auto business, much less
built smash-hit popular cars so quickly after the war! For 1951 --- with Joe's
car career and, indeed, life nearly at end -- the most beautiful and varied
cars to bear the name were produced. Perhaps, a fitting swansong for a
man who started out with Thomas Jeffery in the Brass Lamp Era?





Great and rare "full line" Frazer '51 ad is THANKS to Alden Jewell, life-
long auto afficionado and historian and a FlickR member. Here's Alden's
illuminating and bittersweet summation on the Frazer line in 1951.

"They were using up all of the old bodies (1949-50 Kaisers and Frazers),
with rather startling new front and rear clips for the '51 Frazer," he says.
"That's why there was a "hardtop" (the old Kaiser Virginian), a body style
never previously available in a Frazer. The '51 Frazer was quite a suc-
cess, and the dealers and the public wanted more, so the story goes, but
when the old bodies were used up, there would be no more."

 

The Farman 1923 A6A Super – Sport: This interesting streamlined design was built by the Farman company of France and was introduced in 1919 at the Paris Salon. The model A6, carried with a 6.6 liter six – cylinder engine, with an ohc cylinder head driven by a vertical shaft and bevel gears and a stated 200 b.h.p. We have a very interesting post about it filled with photos @ The Farman 1923 A6A Super – Sport | The Old Motor

 

Ms. Split Personality and the 1954 Nash Ambassador: One of many Nash promo photos along w/a video we have up today with a model in "split" clothes demonstrating how the Nash Ambassador was comfortable in all seasons. See the rest @ [COLOR="Blue"]theoldmotor.com[/COLOR]

 

Talk about "Rim Riders", I would love to see the footage that photographer shot. Great one.

 

Neon

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As long as Alden Jewell has been around, even he says he's never seen one of these
in the flesh ... er, uh, steel and chrome! (Alden is a FlickR member and has MANY
swell ads for famous, rare and foreign cars over on FlickR for HAMBers to peruse.) I
was so taken aback by this Dodge special paint/trim package that I wished to share
this here. Kind of a HINT of the new bodywork and color schemes for '55, right?

Alden Jewell's own commentary is below the ad.




'54 Dodge Two-Tone "Flair Styling" -- A mid-year styling option, seldom seen. Available
only on the Royal V-8 Sports Coupe seen here. They were definitely trying to add some flair to an
otherwise rather bland and stodgy design, and ... it did give a preview of the '55 styling, which I
thought was a knockout. I don't think this brought about the desired result, though. It looks awk-
ward and contrived to me. I've never seen one in person and had never even heard of it until I saw
pictures of one in Collectible Automobile magazine a few years ago, and I was around in 1954 and
actively collecting car literature! I didn't pick up the brochure that this picture came from until a
few years ago, and it's a dealer item, not a consumer brochure.

 

Blow me down, pick me up & dog my cats! The subject of the Czech SKODA
auto just came up days ago, and this popped up from Chris Wild a member of
a SUPER site called "Retronaut." Here's the info he presented to go with the pix:

&#8220;The &#352;koda PA-II (Panzerwagen II) featured rounded armor plate which earned
it the nickname &#8220;Tortoise.&#8221; Production started in 1923, with 12 units ordered.
Vienna&#8217;s police force purchased three vehicles in 1927, and the remaining nine
vehicles were purchased by the Czech police force in 1937. The Germans took
over the PA-IIs when they annexed Czechoslovakia in 1939, and used them as
armored radio vehicles.&#8221;

 

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My Grandma & my Dad with Grandpa's 49 Dodge outside their new home circa 1954. Everything in this shot is still with us today minus the Dodge




My Great Grandfather working on his '36 Dodge.




Dad posing with his newly minted license and the family's Country Squire.



Scan from an old framed advertisement from a local auto manufacturer given to us by my Great Grandmother. There's a local museum that has two of their cars & one of their peanut roasters on display. Neat to tie both to the "old timey thing on Grandma's wall".


Super Service.


Fleetline ad scan 1948.


And some random cold war stuff...

 

Keep up the awesome posts guys....Makes my before work coffee taste even better...

 

The photographer's next stop was the nearest emergency room to get the gravel picked out of his face !!

 

The Ekranoplan-creepy GUSTAV GUN
It could shoot a 7 ton bullet and it weighted 1000 tons.

 

Porsche

 

1961 Volvo 210

 

Ansel Adams, photographing in Yosemite National Park from atop his car in about 1942.

 

Swamp Rat Big Daddy and Big Daddy!

 

In reference to the Canberry low-flying photo, we had a squadron of RB-57s based in northern Japan in the early part of my tour there from June of 57 through June of 60. Our area was about a mile off the end of the runway and about five degrees to the right. Once in a while those guys would come right off the runway, ease right and stay low. Sounded like they were coming in one end of the barracks and going out the other. In 58 or 59, they were replaced by RF-101s. Turned out some of those Voodoo jockeys had the same kind of sense of humor. All of this stopped after an F-100 from the fighter squadron flamed out on takeoff and ended up nose down in the lake between us and the main base.