Vintage shots from days gone by!

Starting to get OT, this thread was almost locked awhile back because of it...

 

Famous Canadian Championship boat "Miss Supertest." "Supertest" was a popular brand of gasoline, especially in rural areas, for many years. Saw her run several times...this son-of-a-buck was thrilling to see in action...

 

San Diego around 1950. Looking east on Broadway

 

Also in San Diego

 

Trying to crack the speed record

 

Isn't that ol' IKE ICANO's Jimmy????

 

I think this may be a still image or a prop from The Rocketeer. In 1939 the business was called Hughes Aircraft Company, rather than "Hughes Industries."

 

It is Moffet Field off 101 in Nor Cal. I drove by it many times.
http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/181906.html

 

My dad was a Navy doc stationed there when I was born - flew with the transport squadron as a flight surgeon.

 

Barney Oldfield in the Golden Submarine

 

Ted Halibrand checking over raw quick change castings

 

Stuart Hilborn at the wheel of his "streamliner" as they were known then.

 

The real Fastest Indian....... Burt Munro