Vintage shots from days gone by!

The Bottom photo shows the $25,000 Custom car built by auto designer William Flajole, in 1951, for the Johnson's Wax Co. to give as a gift to Ted Williams. I think it was offered as a contest prize, soon after...

 

"1948 Tucker car lot Tulsa OK"

 

Found this in a hurry, so not quite as old as I'd have liked. But it's February 1970, so that's 43
years old! Republic F-84F Thunderstreak of the USAF Ohio Air National Guard on the line at
Mansfield Lahm Regional. Super sharp photo by aircraft buff and FlickR member Bob Garrard.



An Ohio ANG F84-F Thunderstreak, aloft in the latter 1960s. Swept-wing successor of the Thunderjet,
these entered service in mid-1954 and were flown by nearly a dozen nations' air forces (including the
Luftwaffe, indicentally), as well as the USAF Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team. Finally
completely retired from U.S. service, 1972. Photo thanks to Wikipedia!



F-84 "Thunderstreaks" belonging to the 110th Fighter Squadron after returning July 1962 to St. Louis
from France during the Berlin crisis. These were succeeded by the F-100 Super Sabers, BTW. Photo
thanks to USGenNet.



Thunderstreak arsenal, thanks to FiddlersGreen.

 

"Tucker Kustom lookalike"

 

Keen 1948 shot of The Galloping Ghost, then essentially a dead-stock P-51-D Mustang, as it was flown
in the 1946 through 1949 Cleveland Air Races (Thompson Cup 300-mile races). Bruce Raymond and
Steve Beville paid $3,500 military surplus price for the plane and took turns flying it at Cleveland
where they took a second and three fourths in four tries, with speeds between 360 and 381 mph.
The photo was taken at Chicago-Hammond Airport, Lansing, Illinois, and is thanks to ClassicWarBirds!




Thanks to the site Aviation Spectator, here's the late Jimmy Leeward piloting
his Packard/RR P-51 Mustang during a June 8, 2008, air show at Lahm. The P-51
was specially painted to resemble aircraft of 164th Fighter Squadron -- which
began service at Mansfield in 1948 -- to mark the 60th anniversary of the Ohio
Air National Guard at Mansfield Lahm Airport. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff
Sgt. Robert J. Koehler)

HAMB aerial buffs know the intrepid Leeward who was killed in a horrific
crash in September 2011 during the national finals at Reno when a tail trim tab
apparently malfunctioned. Eye witnesses said Leeward had obviously tried, un-
successfully, to avoid hitting spectators. Jimmy's Mustang, the famous Gallop-
ing Ghost, was an air-racing legend, winning in the post-WWII Cleveland Air
Races. Thereafter, the veteran warbird raced under various names and had also
won previously at Reno.

I just wanted to throw these P-51s in here because they look so pretty flying
in formation! Shown: 57th Fighter Wing, Missouri Air National Guard in their
Mustangs immediately after WWII. Thanks again, USGenNet!​

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Cool pic from the so-called Golden Age of Air Racing! A military flyby at the 1935 Cleveland National Air Races, thanks to the site, AirMinded.



The All-American Air Races, Miami, 1930.

 

The following are just great pix, though undated. Looks like probably '38 or '39, though.
(National Air Races for the Thompson Trophy, maybe?)




Above, the one-of-a-kind Laird-Turner Meteor; below, Meteor being mobbed! Engine: 1,000 hp Twin Wasp, 1830 c.i.




More plane pix here: Vintage Air Race Photographs - Holcomb's Aerodrome
www.airminded.net/shortsubjs/racers.html

 

Roscoe Turner with the Laird-Turner Meteor. The P&W Wasp engine, called "Twin Row" here, had 14 cylinders.
Predecessor to the big Double Wasp (more cubes and 18 cylinders). The "Champion" sponsorship and the "wheel pants" MAY indicate that the pic was taken in '39, possibly '38, as Turner had won the Thompson Trophy early in his career and was destined to win a total of three of them ultimately. Note that the autographed dedication alludes to doing "it" again. This plane, aka R-14, is now in the National Air and Space Museum, Maryland, I do believe. I read conflicting versions.




Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp radial. In sheer
numbers, possibly the most-produced aviation
piston engine in history.

 

Nice picture Eddie!!!

 

"Point - there's a lot more to this thread than just the pictures. It could almost become a history course."

Amen. Seems like every day we learn something.

 

I spent hundreds of hours researching this photo. It is Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA., June 1954

 

Southside of W. Adams Street in Chicago between Clark and Dearborn.

 

Someone did a fine job on this. I'd like to know more about it.

 

These vehicles were manufactured in Ohio by a man named Lou Fageol. In one of his efforts to get some 'press' for the twin coach idea he entered a car in the 1946 Indianapolis 500 mile race aptly named the 'Twin Coach Special' The car had two 110 c.i. Offenhauser engines mounted one in front of the driver and the other behind the driver. Paul Russo qualified the unusual car second quick and started in the middle of the front row but lasted only 17 laps before hitting the wall and eliminating the car from the race. He was awarded 33rd, last, place in the standings and won a whopping $650.00. I had read on one of the old time car sites that Mr. Fageol altered the car for street use after that race and terriorized the natives of Kent, Ohio by driving it to work

 

And here with his Packard, now at IMS Museum.

 

BOTH!!! High school for me early 60's. We are lucky!

 

We're both old AND lucky! I'll never forget the first time I got to see this up close and personal! Life is good!!!

 

"GESH"---And, I thought the old "DRIFTERS" of Redondo Beach,Ca. had a lot of holes in their '35 coupe!

 

After WWII, at LAX they used this type bus called "Airporters".

 

I saw pictures in one of the old little pages car mags of a "street coupe" that had so many holes in it it literally whistled going down the track it was named Screaming Mimi! I have never seen a picture of that car again and I have tried internet searches. All the required street hardware was inplace but most of it looked more like chicken wire than body sheetmetal!

 

x 2. But boy was there a lot of clothes to put back on if her mother knocked on the bedroom door, as you dived under the bed. ha ha . Got caught only once.

 

I like looking at old planes!

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I love playing "spot the Studebaker" in those pix!

 

Under the bed! Not me, I was going out the window. I wanted as much distance between her and me as humanly possible. You know what happens when you get between a mother and her child!!!!

 

Army Life, 1943:

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