Vintage shots from days gone by!

and this concludes "Things to not have behind you" there will now be a short quiz.

 

OOPS!

 

Interesting they are two door's (the above police cars)

 

I didn't even notice that.....mabye pursuit cars???

 

Two from my hometown's local archive.

 

I bet that big block Tennessee Trooper was fun to cruise the highways with.

 

Michigan State Police - 1957

 

Michigan State Police - 1958

 

ANNISTON AL.

 

BENTON HARBOR MI.

 

GREW UP RIGHT BEHIND THIS TRUCKSTOP!

 

ST. JOE MI

 

Sure looks like my my all-time hero, Roy Rogers.

 

That's him, alright with his hopped up Chrysler station wagon at Bonneville. He did 107 mph.

 

My small hometown on the south east Mo. Border, Mammoth Spring, Ar. Almost if not a century ago. Looks like the horseless carriage has made its way into the Ozark hills. Check out that roadster pickup leading the pack. Bottom pic old poultry plant pic by train depot. Flux

 

Neat!, I'll bet there wasn't a cooler place to live as a young boy, I remember having to walk downtown to see the train, and we only ever got to listen to the big trucks on our C.B. radios, the highway didn't even pass through my hometown.

 

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Ah, the Dat-rod, a realy cool idea if you think about it!

 

File0533 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

#99212 is a 1927 Pontiac.

 

Looks to be an early Rambler, either 1907 or 1908 like the one above.. Two cylinder under floor engine and planetary trans. That is the shift lever on the right side.

 

Tyler, Texas

 

Wharton, Texas

 

Portland Municipal Auditorium, 1917

 

Wow. This is one of those times you could really make a case for sectioning:

(about 4" 'shopped out)

 

Rodeo Parade, Killdeer, North Dakota

Rodeo Parade, Salinas, California

Rodeo Parade, Alpine, Texas