Vintage shots from days gone by!

1929 Bugatti Royale. 169" WB, 12-liter straight 8, weighed 7,000lb. Bare chassis was $30,000 in 1929.

I saw one of these at the Harrah's museum in the 70s. Biggest car I ever saw. They had cast a massive new brake drum for it, and has it on a lathe for the finish work. The shop there could do anything. I saw them forming a new aluminum fender for a 50s Ferrari. My dream job would have been to work there.

 

It doesn't look a whole lot different today...Just add more pickups and less cars.

 

Tea Time?

Is that Sterling Moss?

 

Hey Southurn,
Thanks for psoting all the cool Cadillac pics - sweeeeeeeeeet!!!
Looking forward to more.

 

June 1959: Stirling Moss enjoys a cup of tea in the cockpit of his Vanwall racing car.

dad-bud, you're welcome.

 

Just wondering if this little number had air suspension.

 

A Welsh Town, Great Britain, 1950

 

“Just to see him walk down the street…to me is worth the price of admission” - Sammy Davis Jr

 

Bandit’s Roost (1888), by Jacob Riis, from “How the Other Half Lives.” Bandit’s Roost, at 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend), was the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of all New York City.

 

Sixty years ago this week, a monstrous F5 tornado tore through Waco, Texas, leaving 114 people dead, hundreds more injured and much of the city in ruins.

See photos here.http://ti.me/11mOvqy

 

Hi Flatheadguy.You`re right.My pore ole wore out eyes ain`t what they used to be.Thanks for the correction.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

Well, I've unearthed another little cache of photos; some with info, some without. And away we go:



Taken at Bob Noble Park, Paducah, KY in '75 - the owner had just bought this Pontiac for $2500 and was thrilled about it.










These last five I got in '72 from one of my 6th grade classmates; she said she got them from her weirdo neighbor. DeSotos are from L.A., others around Chicago.


Packard, no date; looks like Cypress Park in L.A.


'39 Chevy with some bling, no running boards and a serious antenna...


'20s Chrysler?

More coming...

 

Continuing:


No idea what this thing was; no info on it and badly faded. Did what I could...


Sweet '30 A tudor phaeton on Kelseys; dated November 1938. Is that the Rose Bowl behind it?


No ID on the car (but not Ford); any guesses? Dated February 1924; Verna on the left, Hazel on the right.


MG-TD with wire wheel covers, U-Haul trailer with 1954 Nevada plates, '39 Packard 120 sedan in the back and a '35 Ford sedan converted to a stakebed truck. That's all I know...


'33 Plymouth; Thriftytone print (from Thrifty Drug Stores, so likely CA) dated April 18, 1939.


On back: "Can't make up his mind - he's a lousy driver." Dated October 1959, plates on the Pontiac look like Ohio.


On back: "Ferrari P-4/1967 Riverside Grand Prix/Driver: Straitiff/Finished 4th."


Brand new '51 Dodge, Nebraska plate, cruising the beach (CA?).

Still more coming...

 

Hey, I'll give em two hubcaps !!!!!!!

scrubba

 

...

 

No idea what this thing was; no info on it and badly faded. Did what I could...

Looks like they piled some scrap onto an empty frame to make it look like something.

 

Thanks I guess that would work but surely not "crash proof"

 

Last of the bunch.


Looks like a guy, his wife and daughter sardined into a Messerschmitt KR-200. On back looks like "H. Z. aller Swiss/R.R. Terminal" dated August 1956.


On back, in German, looks like "Reifen pani Toledo - auf der wegn. Calif. 1959".


'54 Lincoln, CA plates, dated August 1958; looks like he's trying to get away from a wildfire...


1949 Pontiac, Ann Arbor, Michigan.





'61 Mercury Meteor 600 and '58 Plymouth Savoy at my neighborhood car dump, 1971. That Meteor is a rare one; first full-size 6-banger Merc. I still have the instrument cluster from it. Both cars were burned not long afterward by the neighborhood kids.


One for SWI66: Corvair 'n' Comet on the CA coast, August 1965.

That's all for now; hope you enjoyed them as much as these guys did:

"It wash shwell (hic)!"

 

Oh-so-close on ID. This is a Messerschmitt KR175 as evidenced by full front fenders and dome that continued into A pillars as one piece. Cool pic. I've owned all three production 'schmitts, KR175, KR200, and Tg500.

 

I recall it said the E. L.Cord lost interest in the Auburn Cord Duesenberg company in favor of his airline using Lycoming-powered Stinson Tri-motors.

 

Being the gentleman I am, let me do that for you mam.....................

Doc.

 

That's all for now; hope you enjoyed them as much as these guys did:

"It wash shwell (hic)!"[/QUOTE]


How'd you guys find my graduation picture?

 

Did Ford build such a machine? At first, I thought it must be the custom built by Gordon Buehrig, but I belive that had a fixed winshield.