Vintage shots from days gone by!

Meh! Ironworker's? HA! Your not a real man until you eat lunch hanging off the ramp of a C130 at 45,000ft!! Paratroopers!!



(PS, This is not my pic, I don't know who it is!! Older gear than we jumped!!)

Doc.

And to tell the honest truth, no I wouldn't climb out on that Iron bar without a parachute!!


Yes I will delete this pic when called to!!...........by.....well..........anyone!

 

You won't hear it from me Doc! I'm betting that gear is at least 30-35 years old.^^^^

 

Very well the flat head 8 had loads of tourque, not on the high end

 

Didn't all DeSotos of this vintage have the flat 6 engine?

 

Being as there's no automatic shut off on that nozzle he ought to mind what he's doing!

 

That would have been a six, but they were powerful.

 

Yes.

 

Check out the SHOES they're wearing up there.....

 

I have been a Union Ironworker 34 years and most structural hands I know always wore a boot with a completely flat sole so the heel wouldn't catch on the beam being walked on and make you lose yer balance and throw you in "the hole"...

 

Well well....you sissies had fall protection... we were "wingin it"!!!!

 

LOL If you fell off ,you would be 'wingin it'- literally.

 

Los Angeles, 1959

 

Yeah, you got us there but falling 40odd thousand feet without it would suck a lot more than................you know what? I think we all would have made terminal velocity on the way down, that sudden stop at the end is going to hurt just as much!!

Doc.

 

I have had days like this guy, today was almost one of them.

 

Assuming the DeS is hooked up, it's sitting pretty level, and that doesn't look to be a Desi/Luci type trailer. Even before this model, DeSotos with OD could make 90 on a flat, but that's not the point here.

If that's a '49, it would have have (I seem to recall) a 236 SIX with much of the torque of the workhorse Dodge trucks. And torque (with respectable hp) is the combo people would have been looking for at that time, for towing.

Of course, by '52 DeS had the new Firedome Hemi 8 available -- DeSoto's first eight since the early '30s. But that, too, is beside the point.

Pretty much, MoPars had struck a good balance among: reasonable hp, fuel economy, and very reliable torque in the later '30s and through the '40s. So, I think it would have done the job that, say, a Plymouth of the era would have had to struggle at.

 

Love the woodies,, thanks Rocky

 

I want to see that deuce on the right!?

 

Rocky may have it in his stash of pics.

 

From various locations in the Canadian Rocky and Selkirk Mountains.




























Photographer: Byron Hill Harmon
Source: http://www.soultones.com/pc_harmon.html


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What is the story on the Ford Country Squire Wagon? The back window says Detroit , Anchorage and Acapulco? What a trip.

 

Originally Posted by tennesseecouchpotato
I wonder how well a DeSoto of this vintage would have pulled this trailer.[/I]

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Okeydokey, looked up some stats that might pertain to the DeSoto's capability to tow that size of trailer.

About 3,500+ pounds on a 126-inch WB. Bore, 3-7/16"; Stroke, 4.25. 7/1 comp. 112hp@3,600 and 195 torque @ only 1,600. 10" dry clutch; 3.73 differential.

 

great pictures

 

Sorry, no got. I'd also like to see that. It's seriously low, just how I like 'em...

 

Sweet times,for sure.

 

HA Thats what I meant!!

 

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