Vintage shots from days gone by!

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One of the very last Dixie Flyers to be built in 1922, possibly registered as a '23. Powered from
1920 on by Herschell-Spillman engines, these are ULTRA-rare today, with three complete, plus
one pile of parts (in Louisville) accounted for. Dedicated car afficionado Bernie Jacobson lo-
cated what is probably the only remaining Dixie Flyer "Firefly" about 120 km from Melbourne
in '07 and spent three years gathering correct parts and literature to restore it. Scarcely was he
done than he shipped it back to the U.S. where he ultimately sold it to Kentucky Trailer, the de-
scendant company of the old Kentucky Wagon Mfg. Co. which built the Flyers originally! The
car was to be put on permanent display by the Louisville company. Dixie Flyer and Jackson
were apparently subsumed into National some time in '23, with remaining Dixie cars having their
hubcaps and radiator badges switched for Nationals. So, if you have a '23 or '24 National Model
6-31, you might want to compare it closely to its rarer cousins! BTW, the TWO other known Dixie
Flyers are in Weathrford,Texas (a 1920 touring), and Iceland (1918)! Below is an up-to-date shot
of Bernie's restored Firefly HS-70 speedster as it looked completed, mid-2010.







Dixie Flyer logo, Motor Age, April 17, 1919, thanks to FlickR HiveMind.

 

GM Aerotrain. My mom took this picture behind our house in Barstow, CA in 1955. That's me and a friend scampering up the side of the tracks to get a closer look. This thing had air ride (!) and could easily hit 100 mph on the flats between Barstow and Vegas, but needed a helper engine to get up Cajon pass.

 

Waldo, NOTHING like a great, one-of-a-kind family snapshot AND a first-hand story to go with it! Thanks!

 

This photo wa staken in this decade, but that is the original paint from 1936 in the truck's original home town of Jefferson City, Misosuri.

 

what Jimi said, thanks, nice to read!





Carsten

 

Could this be the car that inspired the song,
"Surrey With the Fringe on Top"???





Postcard thanks to Chuck Test and his huge site.



1948 Kurtis Kraft, thanks to Chuck Test . Nicer looking than Muntz's Jet, no?

 

Ton of cool conversation pieces here! Check the '31 Detroit Electric and Moon's Diana, plus the rare DeVaux.


Chuck's Toyland

 

Great stuff today so far.

 

What a great shot. Too bad they didn't keep making those high speed trains.

 

I love the 59 Pontiac "Wide Track" warning at the car wash!

 

Thought at least the Fordies out there would enjoy the piece below. 37Kid's noticing the Ford Model "W "
that was ACTUALLY ADVERTISED in 1907 but never got made (at least under that letter series name) got
me interested in looking closer at early Ford "letter series," if you will. THANKS, BOB, for jolting my cur-
iosity, as the search was very educational! (E.g., I didn't know anything about the Y series, built from '32
to '37 for sale in Britain and Europe! COOL little cars!)

Early Ford series from Wikipedia; click on any one for more info:

Ford Model A (1903–1904, 1927–1931)
Ford Model AC (1904)
Ford Model B (1904) (1904–1906)
Ford Model B (1932)
Ford Model C (1904–1905)
Ford Model C Ten (1935–1937)
Ford Model F (1905–1906)
Ford Model K (1906–1908)
Ford Model N (1906–1908)
Ford Model R (1907)
Ford Model S (1907–1909)
Ford Model T (1908–1927)
Ford Model Y (1932–1937)

Illustration thanks to Chuck's Toyland

 

There was an article in Corvette Magazine a while back about this car. It was an AHRA record holder when the owner was shipped off to Vietnam. He did not return. Many years later his friends rolled the car from it garage in NYC where it had sat waiting for years and did a gentle restoration and as I recall. They ran it one last time in honour of its owner. When they were cleaning up the interior they found the timing slip from the last day it ran.

Brought tears to my eyes. I am glad The Astoria Chas Corvette made it to Vintage Shots from Days Gone By. Great thread.

 

This book is a great resource for the early Ford cars.

http://www.earlyfordcars.info/

-Tim

 

The green Dixie Flyer was in the AACA musuem last year.

 

Right on. I think the AACA folk were, ostensibly, husbanding this one-of-a-kind Firefly until the Kentucky Trailer people could construct a proper DISPLAY area in their main lobby. One account stated that it was due to go to the Louisville main HQ about April 2011. I do not know if it worked out, OR if it's still at the AACA museum. Anybody?

 

Huntington Beach, Ca.

 

'69 Javelin. Which MODEL do you guys like best?



Okay, okay! I KNEW you would say, BOTH!!!

 

So you come down the slide and hit the concrete arch?

 

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'66 International pickup. (Inventors of the "SUV" with
the '53 Travelall. Hey, why not? They invented the pickup
too.)

 

look closer and you will see that the exit is behind the arch,,

 

Neighborhood Watch..

 

Chrisbcritter, your photos are awesome!! Thumbs up!

 

It's not there now.

 

It appears the slide dumps out behind the swings.