Vintage shots from days gone by!

Now that's really cool....

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I wonder how many miles of advancement you lose each time you fire it

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Before there was a trunk monkey

 

Chihuahua Mexico

 

This must be where the term Riding Shotgun originated from

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Paradise Inn, Mt. Rainier, Washington

 

If people would read the history of American Auto Manufactors interaction with the German Government prior to 1939 they would be surprised - There are also interactions with the Nazis and other European countries that fell to them involving their Auto industry

 

Fulton Park Dairy, started by the Raz family. Wilson High and Rieke Elementary Schools now reside on the property.

 

Famous West Coast racer, Rajo Jack.

 

New Shell station, Bandon, OR

 

Popular Mechanics
1935


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This would be wild....

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Did you top off the fuel tank?..,No...Good thing you did.... I didn't.,......Mayday ...Mayday..... Were going down.....

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Popular Mechanics
November 1935

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Popular Mechanics
November 1935

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Right.
https://networks.h-net.org/node/350...otors-and-nazis-struggle-control-opel-europes

 

Anyone Notice the chopped 34? waiting at the crosswalk?

 

Eagle Auto Supply




Jim the Painter Hartners 1947 Austin Panel truck... BB/GS car out of Philly

 

Darrell Waltrip's first Daytona ride.

 

Fire engines like this early 1930's Mack were more common in bigger cities back then, before the advent of breathing apparatus and the better safer clothing (turn-outs). Rubber rain coats didn't offer firemen much protection and so a lot of fires were fought from the street rather than going inside the burning buildings. In Los Angeles, these type rigs would be called hose wagons or monitor wagons (with their oversized deck guns). This fire engine has no pump and could not pump water from a hydrant. A pumper would be required to feed the big monitor.


This would be the L.A. Fire Department's 1937 version, an American La France. The monitor on this rig was what the fire boats had, and it required water hoses from pumpers connected to the seven inlets (per side) to feed it. It had a very small pump, just enough for the 50-gallon water tank for the hose real (enough to put out a fire in a trash bin). The water from that "cannon" could knock down brick walls and that was it's downfall in many ways. It put so much water on the above ground fire floors that the floors collapsed from the weight.

As I said, the Hose/Monitor wagon carried no pump to hook up to the hydrant. Pumpers like this one had to accompany the Monitor wagon. Also a '37 or '38 American La France, the LAFD's Duplex Pumpers. The only hose it carried was just enough to hook up to a hydrant (sometimes two hydrants). It had two pumps, one in the front (that also powered the truck) and one in the back. Both 1500 gallon per minute pumps and both driven by ALF V-12 engines. When these things were at a major fire, parked in the middle of an intersection so they could draw from two separate hydrants, and both engines were roaring, the fire looked out from the burning building and just said, "let's give up now before we drown"...

 

The pump operator (the engineer) had to wear ear-plugs, these engines were both un-muffled (all LAFD fire apparatus were un-muffled when I was young) was deafening...

 

They probably used that L29 Cord grill shell because it had less resale value than a Ford shell back in the day.

 

Does Donna know?