Vintage shots from days gone by!

I posted a couple pictures, earlier, of a younger appearing Annette with a white '57 T-Bird. Maybe it's the same car...

 

Before today, I never realized that they were anywhere other than the southwest. After viewing there internet home page, I learned that they were originally out of Florida, moving to Tenn. and then to Texas. Yes, good food for the price.

 

Big hair, mini skirts and go-go boots the look of the late '60s and the '70s.
I always liked the look.

 

Mart, far as I'm concerned, you are one of the greatest resources of knowledge AND fun on Dog's thread. Your sense of humor is irreplaceable, but I know your own threads and other contributions on the HAMB.

To answer your question, though, I am NOT SURE if the front-wheel drive feature was on the Frazer prototype. I do remember that Henry Kaiser WANTED FWD in the car HE envisioned producing. Joe Frazer, on the other hand, had already envisioned a nice, fresh car, outwardly speaking, but otherwise pretty conventional -- easy for home mechanics and even the average pro mechanic to maintain.

I remember at least drawings of Henry Kaiser's dream car. Give me a day, and I'll try and find those, buddy. (Needless to say, the Kaisers and Frazers, mechanically, were first to market (December 1946) but about as conventional mechanically as cars of the era came.

 

Gloria Swanson

 

paint by Watson

 

Always love the step-down Hudson pix! Here's an old
warrior, not Hudson, though.

1931 Wanderer Cabriolet ad, thanks AGAIN to Alden Jewell

of FlickR. His comment: "Wanderer became a part of Auto

Union in 1932, along with Horch, Audi, and DKW. The "four

ring" emblem represented these four makes of cars."




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That Transcontinental airliner is a
very rare (one of 10 in total built, the
first one off the production line and
the only one used by Transcontinental)
1939 Boeing 307 "Stratoliner". Howard
Hughes owned Transcontinental
and after buying up several other
airlines, he merged them all to create
TWA later in 1939. This particular
Stratoliner (I don;t want to use the
word "plane") still exists today, albeit
in a somewhat "different"and "altered"
form and is now known as the "Cosmic
Muffin". Do a google search using words
"Cosmic Muffin" and see what it is now!
You'll be amazed at what some people do
with old airplanes!

Mart3496
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Okay, Mart. I found SOMETHING, but they didn't want it reposted. So here's where there's more info and graphics on the Kaisers and Frazers during the developmental stages.
1947ka-1947 k85 Kaiser

circlekf.com/kfhandbook/kfoci%20handbook-pdf%20files/KFOCI%20HANDBOOK%20VERSION%...

 

This has got to be one of the sadist responses I have ever seen..

I love the old cars, old buildings, old planes, old trains, young dames and everything in between.


Live and let live.

 

Here's some interesting pics from the rural areas around Vancouver BC. Lots of history in them, please enjoy.

 

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Pot meet kettle. Perpetually posting the same redundant opinion oriented questions looking for other opinions only slows this otherwise great thread down. Worse still using an obnoxious eyesore writing 'style'. Vintage shots thread - not post rambling novels about vintage shots thread. Perhaps you're merely upset that you can't keep up commenting jimi.

This thread became even better after placing jimi on ignore over a year ago. Unfortunately when one of you quotes him that garble still leaks through.

Pictures and/or short facts/memories are the way to go.

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If we can't agree on what photos should be posted or who can post them it is highly unlikely we'll ever agree on a way to keep our six year olds from being shot at school. Pretty sad isn't it?

 

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My daughter's father in-law grew up in the Vancouver area, he (Ray) has driven bus in the city for years. He & his wife now live in Ladner, I will send these pics to him he probably knows about some of them.

Do you do any car shows out there? We were at several in Ladner, Richmond and White Rock B.C. last August. Ray has a restored green '67 Dodge Coronet Sport and goes to many shows in that area.

 

More from the Ladner area, the one of the house being moved, is the Burr family homestead, as in Raymond Burr.

 

Interesting stuff.. I'm, sure glad
though, that you had the foresight
and self-control to not post the actual
information and the additional pics
here and instead, chose to just put out
the link to it. Otherwise you might
have pissed off certain self-appointed
potentates and arbiters of propriety!
Heaven forbideek that you'd ever
want to risk doing that!!!

Mart3404
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Good pics.

 

I learned a lot from my D.I. Perhaps we could all just sit back, chill out and take some advice from SGT Hulka (Stripes)

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I do go to many cars shows in the Vancouver area, and actually work just up river from Ladner, on Annacis Island. Wouldn't it be something, if we've already walked past each other, and didn't know it!

 

If we can't agree on what photos should be posted or who can post them it is highly unlikely we'll ever agree on a way to keep our six year olds from being shot at school. Pretty sad isn't it?


This post should be "Pinned "!


scrubba

 

I will be back out that way next August, hope to make it to a few shows prior to our cruise out of Vancouver to Eddie's land - Alaska - for 2 weeks.

 

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Kissimmee (yeah, that's what it said!) Florida, about 1955. Looks more like next to the ocean someplace, maybe Daytona or Cocoa?
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About 1963, unknown location

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I'll be sure and wear a HAMB shirt to all the shows in August. I'm hard to miss, at 6'2" and 300 lbs. Here's some more pics.

 

1947 KAISER K85 4-DOOR SEDAN
(No examples exist – listed for historical purposes only)
Factory PR photo of the K-85 featuring whitewall tires. Note the wider rocker panel molding and the
curvature of the front bumper as it wraps around the front fenders.
Number produced: 2 Prototypes
During World War II, Henry Kaiser tried to work up a viable automobile for the postwar market.
He wanted his automotive namesake to have front wheel drive and sell competitively with Ford.
Although Kaiser’s “Hobby Lobby” came up with a number of ideas, none were considered
worthwhile. With the creation of Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, the Kaisers had access to GrahamPaige & its engineering expertise. The low-cost, front wheel drive project was back on the table.
Graham’s agreement with Howard Darrin to license Darrin’s car design was amended to allow
Kaiser-Frazer use of the property, and K-F engineers, under former Hupp Vice-President Vern
Drum set to work on developing the new engineering for the Kaiser car. Drum and Ed
MacCaslin decided to try and incorporate a number of new concepts. Besides the front wheel
drive, the car would have a unit body, torsion bar suspension and magnesium castings for front
end components. Kaiser hyped the car from a team that (at least publicly) never failed to
deliver, but it seemed that the public was skeptical. When the company started taking orders
(for delivery at an unspecified date, at an undetermined price) in January 1947, Graham-Paige’s
Frazer was the runaway first choice.
Kaiser-Frazer’s engineers were having a variety of problems moving the concept into production
form. Originally, the company expected to spend $200,000 to hand-build 4 test cars. Reality
was that nearly $450,000 was sunk into just 2 automobiles. In January 1946, Henry Kaiser
attempted to ramrod Kaiser-Frazer into leases on 3 facilities which, together, could produce high
volumes of aluminum sheet. The idea was to use aluminum for car bodies rather than the hard
to get sheet steel. Problem was that up to that point there was no viable way to weld aluminum
the way you could weld steel. A deal was brokered in the boardroom at Willow Run that gave
Kaiser Engineers, Inc. 90 days to work out a way to weld aluminum. If it could not be done, the
Henry J. Kaiser Corporation would take over the plant leases. The War Assets Administration
(WAA) agreed to the deal. The steel K-85 bodies were scrapped out, and 2 replacements were
made by hand from aluminum. Ninety days later, the engineers had to admit defeat, and the
leases were transferred to Permanente Metals Corporation another Kaiser company; the


Great find..thanks

Les

 

Now that's "TRADITIONAL" to the extreme.

 

If we can't agree on what photos should be posted or who can post them it is highly unlikely we'll ever agree on a way to keep our six year olds from being shot at school. Pretty sad isn't it? [/QUOTE]

I don't think photos have anything to do with bullets and they are NOT posted here.

Live and let live.