Art & Inspiration Interesting images from old magazines

I need some more coffee ........

 

Wisconsin car, very cool build.

 

Cool!

 

Car Craft October, 1957
I'm guessing that the "secret formula" was candy paint. Can anybody with this magazine take a look inside and let us know?

 

Here you go...

 

Thanks, rbantique, for posting the story on the color chrome -- now we know!

 

For programs like this they would have an illustrator draw a generic car so it wouldn't favor any one of the manufacturers. So today we might think of the generic car as a custom. This one looks pretty interesting. It's lowered to the point that the tires would be rubbing on the undersides of the fenders. That high ground clearance makes it look awkward, though.

 

Model Race Cars, October 1948
Well, this is one way get your model car around the track.

 

That's how you start a tether car or 'spindizzy'. After the car starts, you step out over the fence. There's a thread about them at www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-tether-cars.280837/.

 

rbantique,

How in-depth is that article on installing the quick change rear? Might be a fun one to add to Tech Week!

 

Thanks "rbantique" for another great trip down memory lane.
I always enjoy seeing your posts and reading the stories.
Jimbo

 

rbantique you might want to find an old picture frame that has nothing it in and it's it's the correct size lay it over the old small books open on a table or something to hold it open to the page you want. Easier than holding it

 

I am just posting found images ... the fingers , technique, and photo content are not under my control. I've posted and sold most of my old magazines. The ones from my stuff were scanned (see the early posts).

 

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Speed Mechanics February, 1962

 

Motor Age, November 1952

 

Car Craft, March 1961

 

Hey that car show in Hartford at the top is the FIRST ever car show I convinced my father to take me to when I was still too young to drive myself..

 

Image originally posted by rbantique

The instrumentation on the firewall suggests the builder enjoyed a lot of time hovering over the engine.

 

This car still exists!!! It was built by brothers Carl and Bob Austin in the mid-fifties. It's first iteration was as seen here with the flathead, black paint and '35 Ford wires. The brothers took the cat completely appart in the early sixties and put a deuce frame under it, dropped in a SB Chev and repainted it a stunning Candy Apple blue. They drove it everywhere. Then they got into building super-modifieds which they raced at Oswego, NY. The T sat for a long time until Carl decided it needed some TLC. He was in the midst of that when he got cancer and died. I HATE CANCER! The car is apart and sitting in one of his son's garages at present.

The Austin brothers are the sole reason I am still putzing about with old cars. And, it would be nearly impossible to find two finer humans on the face of this earth.

 

I was expecting a flying car when younger for good reason!