Vintage shots from days gone by!

[Artfrombama]

Lets see it again;

Originally Posted by Johnny Gee

Love this photo!!

[dann]

One of my grandfathers delivery trucks decked out for a 4th of July parade.



Grandpa's Harley Davidson delivery bike. That is not him on it, best family can recall is that is a delivery driver he employed named Eddie.

[Artfrombama]

Those britches should last him till he's 15
(2nd from left)

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

[lookslikerusttome]

My Dad and family with his father's Model A in 1970.

[roadkillontheweb]

Originally Posted by jimi'shemi291

IsettaJohn, man, you have to share with us any background info on this photo. If TuckerFan48 doesn't have it in his collection yet, he'll be barking this tree too. Awesome pic I never saw before, and it's the coolest find I've seen since Ed of Grimes, IA, turned up the snapshot of a Tucker on a used-car lot a couple of years back.

Great photo!
I got to meet this ED guy in Grimes. He must be my neighbor?
And he had a Tucker picture on a used car lot too? Wow what a small world!

Here is the Tucker picture I shared of just another used car on the lot!

Thanks
Lee in Grimes.

[BornBuick]

Originally Posted by automaticslim

That's Ferdinand Porsche showing off the new car to Adolph and the boot lickers. Porsche later spent time in prison for war crimes. This is a sad little scene.

No he spent time, a little over a year in a camp setting but was never charged with a war crime as he was an engineer, never a party member and had his own design spec company which in time caught the eye of the 3 Reich in the thirties way before WWII. He help design the peoples car (volkswagen) which Hitler's third reich had intended for the everyday man and the newly in progress Autobahn under construction.

Just the facts - Ma'am.

[pipopak]

Now that we talk about Tuckers, there is/was one in Brazil at the Roberto Lee museum:
http://www.autoclassic.com.br/galeri...lbum/index.htm
Long story short, the guy was murdered by his wife and the museum sat abandoned for 30 years (give or take) with predictable results:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008...pava-lost.html
But seems that recently some effort was started to recover what was not stolen/looted/rotten (museum is located in a high temp and high humidity area):
http://taiada-blog.blogspot.com/2011...o-lee-sao.html
(deep sigh).

[starwalker]

One of my parents' friends. Probably in Enid, Oklahoma.

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by Brizo

Orel Roberts ?

Brizo wins the ..............

That was fast. I thought it would take longer than that since he was wearing glasses.

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by Tucker Fan 48

Which Futurliner was this and where is it today?

I never saw anything about it till this post. I went to school at Oral Roberts University in 68-72, so it must have been one of those things that is long gone. I recognize, though I can't remember his name, the guy doing the preaching. DeWitt?, DeWeese? Something like that. He was OR's assistant for years. (OR is what the students called Roberts).

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by jchav62

If you ever come through New Mexico, stop at Blake's Lotaburger... add cheese and green chile... Highly recommended...

I'm headed through there at the end of next week. Is it still there and where?

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

Guess my family thought they ALL had to sit on the couch. It appears to be sagging in the middle.

Taken ~60 years ago. My mom and dad, on the far right, holding me and my older brother are in their 90's now.

This is one reason I love this. We're looking at them in their prime.

[swi66]

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[norby48]

Tall women for 1954?

[jimi'shemi291]

Originally Posted by roadkillontheweb

Great photo!
I got to meet this ED guy in Grimes. He must be my neighbor?
And he had a Tucker picture on a used car lot too? Wow what a small world!

Here is the Tucker picture I shared of just another used car on the lot!

Thanks
Lee in Grimes.

LOL! Sorry, Lee! You can SEE that my Alzheimer's is kicking into high gear, eh? You'd originally posted your old frined's snapshot over on the "Extinct Makes" thread. TuckerFan researched the background (from the PH exchange) a great deal and nailed it down to SoCal and a year (about '52?). Maybe he'll chime in with the particulars.

But, I never saw the pic of the blue tuck with the little girl. Sure would like to know more about THAT photo!

[outlaw256]

Originally Posted by swi66

sorry guys, i dont know how to just post 2 pics of this run but i am really interested where these pics of trimble/ dyersburg tn came from as thats where i am from.

[isettajohn]

Originally Posted by jimi'shemi291

But, I never saw the pic of the blue tuck with the little girl. Sure would like to know more about THAT photo!

Yes, Tuckerfan has seen this one. I posted it on a Tucker thread here. Its a photo of my friend's ex when she was a little girl sitting on her Dad's Tucker which happened to be # 001 - the first Tucker. He sold it in the 70's for what is chump change today. I have a couple other photos of it from then. The old man nearly died when he found out it was valued over a million now. He has since passed and the guy who bought it still owns it here in NJ.

[jimi'shemi291]

Thanks, John. Sweet car! So, this would have been the first reg-prod. unit to roll out, after the prototype Goose, right? Looks as though at least one of the pix you just posted is vintage like the one a couple of pages back.

Seem somehow ironic. Tuckers are among the most sought-after collector cars in the world at a mil-plus each. But (seems to me anyway), once you adjust for inflation and divide by about 51 the sum total of all the money Preston plowed into the company, personnel, promotion, etc., etc., I'd bet each Tucker actually cost over a million dollars, expressed in modern-day dollars. All in all, irrelevant, but I thought it was interesting to ponder the financial wherewithall that went into each of these rare units.

In the spirit of our occasional "Then&Now" illustrations, here's a pic from one of the links Pipopak posted, showing the Brazil "lost" Tucker being relocated from the dilapidated museum. Pix in the three links seem to show that somebody put some fairly serious miles on this car, though, obviously, it is imminently restorable. For sure.

Hey, and how often do you get to see a T-48 from this angle? Interesting perspective on Tremulis' design lines, eh? Some people aren't turned on at all by the Tucker, but I love them. Putting oneself in the year 1948, it seems to me that the "Torpedo" compared well -- if not epitomized -- design trends at that moment in time. Had Preston been able to squeeze out 10- or 20,000, instead of an oddity they'd have looked right at home on the asphalt with Studes, step-down Hudsons, and sleek Cads & Buicks, do you think?