Vintage shots from days gone by!

Real life Hot Wheels!

 

So : "Tell me again about "Big and Little tires and wheels," AND about this "DROPPED AXLE you'er saying I should have installed? "

 

Gary, saw this on our tour of Oregon, before we headed to LARS
wonderful sight
Noel

 

Interestingly, I used to run a camera crane very similar to the one that is just out of frame to the right. I believe that is a Chapman crane. Chapman camera cranes were built from a US Air Force bomb loaders for B-52s. They chose these vehicles because they will "crab" as all wheels are steerable. The guy on the right in the blue parker could easily be me (it isn't.)

 

...and then along came Jay Leno...

 

Lived there 1958-1966, nice town to grow up in.

 

A very interesting photo showing a lot of technical detail. With the De Dion rear suspension I should recognize the car but I don't. Do you have ID on this one, Rootie?

Thanks for posting.

 

"After putting up with grandpa's shit for 60 years, granny finally snapped, and killed the old coot with her kitchen knife (that's grandpa's shoe in the foreground).

Now all that was left to do is to cut him up into little pieces, throw him in the trunk, and drive the car into the river."

 

The Jay Leno crash car!