Vintage shots from days gone by!

[Still_Crazy]

Originally Posted by empire

Straight out of one of those "Cars" animated movies

[Blown30Chevy]

Just joined the forum so here's my very first contribution.

Pic is from March 1966. Car was my dad's '40 sedan. My uncle "borrowed" it at a party for a beer run. Sadly they already had a lot of beer to start with. Story is he was hauling butt through town and went down an alleyway behind a store. The alleyway was a dead end with a brick wall at the end - he went right through it. Long story short, my uncle is now no longer with us. There's a bright side to that, he died a few months ago at a crusty old age and not as a result of hitting a brickwall . As far as the accident, like most drunk driving accidents go - he went through it very well. A few scratches but that was about it.

I do have another picture but need to get a battery and MicroSD for my scanner to scan it. My dad never got another '40 though he has been longing for one for quite a while.

[Fatbob309]

Great pic and story! You have done well FNG... you have done well.

[automaticslim]

Originally Posted by SouthUrn

It can only be (and is) the Flxible plant. The same two pictures are found in Thomas McPherson's Flxible book on page 259. Records show 49 units were built in '59, although there were two additional made in pre-production to re-enter professional car field after a seven year lapse not counted. Just a few '59 Flxibles remain today and most are in one collection.

Thanks for the info, SouthUrn. So I guess that Flxible had the same kind of deal with Buick that Henney had with Packard.

[Deuce Daddy Don]

Originally Posted by Blown30Chevy

Just joined the forum so here's my very first contribution.

Pic is from March 1966. Car was my dad's '40 sedan. My uncle "borrowed" it at a party for a beer run. Sadly they already had a lot of beer to start with. Story is he was hauling butt through town and went down an alleyway behind a store. The alleyway was a dead end with a brick wall at the end - he went right through it. Long story short, my uncle is now no longer with us. There's a bright side to that, he died a few months ago at a crusty old age and not as a result of hitting a brickwall . As far as the accident, like most drunk driving accidents go - he went through it very well. A few scratches but that was about it.

I do have another picture but need to get a battery and MicroSD for my scanner to scan it. My dad never got another '40 though he has been longing for one for quite a while.

"A little bondo will fix it"!!!!

[swi66]

[moefuzz]

Originally Posted by jimi'shemi291

Moe, one awesome pic! Is this a well fire, OR is it a case of the old (common) practice
of "Flaring off" natural gas??? Thanks for this post, either way! -- Jimi

Jimi,

That's a blow out and the thing is pretty well toast and sheet has and will happen in order that we all drive a car.

Pic is offshore Portugal ~~~ 1930's give or take...

[norby48]

Originally Posted by empire

Just a little creepy..........

[Crispy Critter]

Originally Posted by jimi'shemi291

The newspaper Mersey Beat was published by Bill Harry, a former classmate of John Lennon. Prominently featuring the popular Beatles (as it usually did), this issue is from Jan. 4, 1962, who would soon springboard to international prominence -- without drummer Pete Best, right. The paper took its name from the Mersey River and county Merseyside where the long-time trade center and working-class city of Liverpool was located. "Merseyside" above the paper's masthead basically refers to the fact that the local music scene was centered in Liverpool on the east side of the Mersey. Local and visiting bands included the likes of the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, The Undertakers and many others. The above image is THANKS to Wikipedia. Though it is copyrighted, there's no other way to adequately discuss the publication without showing a sample, which is how I understand the fair-use provision in regard to copyright.

Regarding the British Invasion musical movement, I have bittersweet feeling, still. As a kid in the '50s and early '60s, I really didn't analyze things much. Rock&Roll music was in the air, and I just thought it always would be -- meaning in the same form as that period. When the English bands stormed onto the scene, I sort of thought it was just a new, likeable sound, an ADDITION to the American R&R scene. By about '64 -- certainly by the end of '65 -- I suddenly woke up and realized that British groups' domination had driven trad rock down the charts, putting many old-timers out of work, or even driving to England. Was it really over? As the '60s wound down, it was apparent that Rock&Roll as I'd known it had been itself transformed into new forms.

Thank God for those old 45s and 33s! At least, we can turn back time by sitting down and turning on a now-old-fashioned phonograph.

My sentiments exactly!!!!

[Suprcharged]

RE: 39010 - thought that was Vivien Leigh at first - dead ringer!

[gas pumper]

Colleen Townsend, selected "Miss Safety First" by the Southern California Timing Association, poses in a streamlined car, made from an airplane belly tank mounted on a Ford frame in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 21, 1948. The car, built by Bill Burke, is powered by an inverted Mercury Motor, mounted in the tail, and has been clocked at better than 139 miles per hour. It will be featured in the First Annual Hot Rod Show here Jan. 23-25. (AP Photo)


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/50-aw...#ixzz1ka8yZ0MY

[jimi'shemi291]

Originally Posted by Crispy Critter

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My sentiments exactly!!!!

Thanks, man! As I see it, the HAMB trad era and TRAD Rock&Roll go pretty much hand in hand. I think of true old-time R&R as "THE theme music" of trad hotrodding.

[NOTGETTINGRICH]

Originally Posted by gas pumper

Colleen Townsend, selected "Miss Safety First" by the Southern California Timing Association, poses in a streamlined car, made from an airplane belly tank mounted on a Ford frame in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 21, 1948. The car, built by Bill Burke, is powered by an inverted Mercury Motor, mounted in the tail, and has been clocked at better than 139 miles per hour. It will be featured in the First Annual Hot Rod Show here Jan. 23-25. (AP Photo)


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/50-aw...#ixzz1ka8yZ0MY

Note that the photographer managed to exclude any hint that the car has more than two wheels.

[Cut55]

Originally Posted by empire

Myrna

It just doesn't get much finer that that IMO.

[gnichols]

Originally Posted by empire

How'd this one slip in? Vintage commuter bicycle lanes? Gary

[lordairgtar]

Originally Posted by gnichols

How'd this one slip in? Vintage commuter bicycle lanes? Gary

It's modern. Look at the font on the rooms sign, and the light poles are modern.

[raceron1120]

[SouthUrn]

Originally Posted by NOTGETTINGRICH

Note that the photographer managed to exclude any hint that the car has more than two wheels.

Shadows are hints.

[fbi9c1]

Originally Posted by raceron1120

Raymond Loewy's personal car.

[jimi'shemi291]

Originally Posted by gnichols

How'd this one slip in? Vintage commuter bicycle lanes? Gary

Originally Posted by lordairgtar

It's modern. Look at the font on the rooms sign, and the light poles are modern.

Just my 2 cents. I think this happens because we've never agreed on some rough cutoff for what we are going to consider VINTAGE. I think a rule of thumb would at least help well-meaning guys and gals avoid pretty recent pix. There's no PERFECT definition of the term. I've suggested before maybe 1980, just for SOME practical rule of thumb. That way, we'd be assured material (usually) would be over 30 years old.