Vintage shots from days gone by!

Portland, OR

 

The original Laverne and Shirley. Shlamiel... shlamozzle...

 

As long as I have my coupe, I'll always have a place to sleep.

 

He looks like that nozzle was still pumping when he removed it the last time.

 

This lady is the #1 cause of the hole in the ozone. I like the shorts and the boots, though.

 

Hmm .. Factory original Ford charcoal.

 

Henry Ford created the charcoal briquette from the wood scraps and sawdust from his car factory. E.G. Kingsford bought the invention and put the charcoal briquette into commercial production.

 

Ford saw the waste from his sawmill in upstate Michigan which milled spokes, floor boards and other parts, from the 300,000+ acres of forest that he owned in upper Michigan. He was able to purchase that land with the help from his cousin's husband, Edward Kingsford. Later Ford infringed on a patent from the late 1890s that some other guy had (he might have been a friend of Ford and that's why no lawsuit was filed) to make charcoal briquettes. Together with Kingsford, and Edison, Ford built a factory to produce the briquettes by the sawmill, there's still a town there named Kingsford. They were called Ford briqutets until the 1950s when the business was sold and name was changed to Kingsford in honor of Kingsford. He died in the 1940s.

 

Here are a few of those front motor dragsters

 

If all new and being delivered, can anyone site anything different about the Roady
coupe hanging off the top ?

 

3 port fender vs. 4 port.
Cant say I'm all that up on my Bufords though.
Is one a Special?

 

Feb 2015 that time of the year $$$$$

 

3 port special , 4 port road master , century . Wheelbase longer on last two also .

 

They're '55s and the Roadmaster up top looks like it's got '54 wheel covers.

 

The late Great, Dick Page and his "It is Finished!" '32 Sedan .... Tacoma WA.