Vintage shots from days gone by!

Your right ....He always wore that hat it seems at both Ascot and at Indy..... I guess it was his promoters trade maker.....

 

Father in-law's '39 or '40 Plymouth convertible, picture taken just before he left for WWII, early '42 St Clair Shores MI:

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Post-WWII photo of wife's grandfather's friends (?) He's no longer around to confirm so assuming:

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Florida coast - probably around Miami, 1956:

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St Thomas, Virgin Islands 1958 (from wife's grandfather's massive slide collection):

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Somehow these two pics in particular
remind me of a certain 1960's 'car'
song. Hmmm?? They weren't taken in
'Pasadena' by any chance, were they
...perhaps a few years before the
Chrysler ragtop got traded in on "a
brand new, shiny red, Super Stock
Dodge"???!!!!

Mart3406
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I can't believe hippies have made their way into this kick ass thread. All good things must come to an end I guess.

 

"Lunatic-Scary" would be a major understatement....

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"Famous owners of the Motorette include the American comedian Bob Hope who wanted “an extra “get-about car” where no car could go."

http://www.3wheelers.com/motorette.html

 

From Popular Science - December 1940. Go to the link and read the full story
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/25/do-you-get-traffic-jitters/

 

Dayton, 1953.

 

LOL, yeah I didn't even think of that!

Actually it's my grandma in-law in the pics, and granddad in-law in some of the others. He was high up muckity muck with Chrysler Corp from the late 20s until he retired as production Veep or Manager of some sort at the old Jefferson Main Assembly Plant in Detroit, in 1954. The pic of Grandma was taken in front of their home in StClair Shores MI. He traded that beautiful '57 in for a '64 Chrysler ragtop.

 

Back form Haight Ashbury to our regularly scheduled program......

 

1960's style IBM computer at Washington State U. It looks like they had GEEKS back then too......

 

40 years ago??? Damn! That was the year I got busy - too busy for hippie-dom (but had a helluva 1970 & early '71):

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September 1971, Lackland Air Force Base, TX.

 

British model Eva Rhodes who was a friend of John Lennons also met a sad end. She was murdered and buried in Hungury at the age of 65 last year.

Mrs Rhodes came to England as a child and had a successful early career as a model including an appearance in a film by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

 

Mart, congrats, you beat me to the little ol' lady crack, bud! No
disrespect, I'll bet they changed the oil every 3,000, kept it in a
garage, never had the top down and never had it above 3,000 rpm.

 

It looks like they put the top down occasionally. Nice photos. Do you have any of the '64?

 

I FINALLY got to the end of this. Wonderful. More

 

Mart & DueceDon, the more things change, the more
they stay the same. The goofiness of the buxom ladies
"bobbing for spaghetti" (maybe for a charity stunt) will
never quite equal the goofiness of the group below who
were gonna elevate us to the age of -- er, uh -- OH,
YEAH! Aquarius! LOL

 

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ALTERNATE CAPTION - "Damn, I wish
Al Gore would hurry up and invent the the
internet, so I could get online and start
posting to the 'Vintage Shots From Days
Gone By' thread on the H.A.M.B!!!"

Mart3406
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(Gross and Disgusting) ALTERNATE
CAPTION - "Despite her very best efforts,
Hortense only came in 3rd in the State Fair
barfing competition."!!!

Mart3406
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Check out Bud's ride

 

she looks kind of chubby

 

^^^^ cool!

 

Couldn't locate any of the '64. I have boxes of his old slides and pictures that haven't been opened in 30 years. He took hundreds of slides and movies back in the 40s and 50s. There's likely some of the '64 someplace. If I get them I'll post 'em here.

re: the 3000 miles, only garage kept...etc. Yes that is likely correct. But Gramps would get on 'em occasionally. While he had mellowed down in his later years, he was quite the tough guy back in his prime and had some hot cars - all Mopars - when he was younger. He told stories about the early days at the plant, when the union and company "thugs" had frequent 'discussions'.

No pics of the '64, but here's one of their '54 Chrysler:

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ok, my turn (don't be afraid to push for super BIG resolution)

Ann Miller (1934 - 2001)

 

This guy would have no chance in todays TV world
(1971)

 

Hey! Why don't you put a huge nitro burning motor in this ugly little crate? And rip those dumbass fenders off, too.