Vintage shots from days gone by!

[MrFire]

http://www.500race.org/Marques/Cooper.htm

[MrFire]

http://gallery.antiflux.org/v/mcarmi...+Car_.tif.html

[MrFire]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...-Dagenham.html

[MrFire]

[MrFire]

DKW driven by Vic Elford:



http://www.vicelford.com/bio.html

"Vic was hired by Steve McQueen to do the high speed close-up action driving the 917 for Steve's film "Le Mans"."

[MrFire]

http://www.townhousecompany.com/blyt...y/history.aspx

[MrFire]

Road and Track - July 1965 - roadtest:
http://www.m-100.cc/600/magazines/ro...965/index.html

[MrFire]

Check the Mercedes Messwagen....




http://adverdriving.blogspot.com/201...-mercedes.html

[jimi'shemi291]

Wow, MrFire. I think that's the fanciest kid's car
I've ever seen! What a lucky youngster.



(And, DITTO on the Mosquitoes!)

[jimi'shemi291]

Yeah, but NEW definition of a BAD day! You crack
up your GTX, AND hit a cop car??? OUCH!!!

[mart3406]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrFire
http://anonymous-generaltopics.blogs...-mosquito.html

"In October 1938 the Ministry rejected their
proposal, sceptical about the idea of a
wooden plane and the concept of the unarmed
bomber. They informed de Havilland that their
contribution was best served by building wings
for one of the existing bomber aircraft programs.
Regardless, de Havilland was convinced the idea
was sound and continued development on their
own. The support of Sir Wilfrid Freeman eventually
proved decisive and a contract for fifty aircraft,
including one prototype, was finally placed under
B.1/40 on 1 March 1940."

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Originally Posted by Bob W

"Yup, G.M.built some of them."

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Nope. General Motors didn't have anything
to do with them. Some Mosquitoes were built
in Canada....by 'Victory Aircraft' in Toronto.
Victory Aircraft was a 'Crown Corporation' -
ie - a Canadian government-owned company
- created when the Canadian government
nationalized the assets of the originally
British-owned A.V. Roe (Canada) Ltd. aircraft
company. There was no connection at all to
General Motors. The only 'U.S. automotive
industry' connection was that all the
Canadian-built Mosquitoes - and a lot of
the later British-built ones as well - used slightly
revamped and improved Packard-built copies
of the V1650 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. You're
probably confusing the Merlin engine with the
quite different, G.M designed and built V1710
Allison engine.

Mart3406
===========================

[Vintageride]

Plus the airframes were made out of PLYWOOD. Incredible when you think of that.

I saw a Mosquito at the air Museum in Ottawa many years ago. Quite important when considering WWII history.

Vintageride

Originally Posted by mart3406

Quote:


----------------------

------------------
Nope. General Motors didn't have anything
to do with them. Some Mosquitoes were built
in Canada....by 'Victory Aircraft' in Toronto.
Victory Aircraft was a 'Crown Corporation' -
ie - a Canadian government-owned company
- created when the Canadian government
nationalized the assets of the originally
British-owned A.V. Roe (Canada) Ltd. aircraft
company. There was no connection at all to
General Motors. The only 'U.S. automotive
industry' connection was that all the
Canadian-built Mosquitoes - and a lot of
the later British-built ones as well - used slightly
revamped and improved Packard-built copies
of the V1650 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. You're
probably confusing the Merlin engine with the
quite different, G.M designed and built V1710
Allison engine.

Mart3406
===========================

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by MrFire

http://www.townhousecompany.com/blyt...y/history.aspx

is that a kustom?..looks a bit like a Jaguar?

[Andy]

Stock Jag.
Fixed head coupe. Maybe a XK 150?

[Bob W]

Originally Posted by mart3406

Quote:

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------------------
Nope. General Motors didn't have anything
to do with them. Some Mosquitoes were built
in Canada....by 'Victory Aircraft' in Toronto.
Victory Aircraft was a 'Crown Corporation' -
ie - a Canadian government-owned company
- created when the Canadian government
nationalized the assets of the originally
British-owned A.V. Roe (Canada) Ltd. aircraft
company. There was no connection at all to
General Motors. The only 'U.S. automotive
industry' connection was that all the
Canadian-built Mosquitoes - and a lot of
the later British-built ones as well - used slightly
revamped and improved Packard-built copies
of the V1650 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. You're
probably confusing the Merlin engine with the
quite different, G.M designed and built V1710
Allison engine.

Mart3406
===========================

" In Canada, fuselages were built in the Oshawa, Ontario plant of General Motors of Canada Limited. These were shipped to De Havilland of Canada in Toronto for mating to fuselages and completion. As a secondary manufacturer, de Havilland Australia started construction in Sydney. These production lines added 1,076 from Canada and 212 from Australia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito

1943

"Production of Canada’s 500,000th fighting vehicle celebrated in Oshawa
Mosquito airplane fuselage production reaches one a day "



http://www.gm.ca/inm/gmcanada/englis...gm_canada.html

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by Andy

Stock Jag.
Fixed head coupe. Maybe a XK 150?

thank you

[Black_Sheep]

A few I found on the Minnesota Historical Society website while surfnig one night...

[wvenfield]

I love this pic. LOL

[jimi'shemi291]

Yeah, one of those hilarious pix that really doesn't
need explanation, WVEnfield! Glad you found it.

[twin6]

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