Vintage shots from days gone by!

X-F272, many thanks for some excellent Australian photos.
Ubiquitous amongst most of the photos are FX / FJs - they were kind of Australia's version of the Model T in the 50's, with more than 50% of the market in their day - not great cars but exactly what the market was looking for when they were launched. Bigger than the average British car of the day, with a 'large' 2.2 litre 6 cylinder motor, 3 on-the-tree and seating for six, they were a good family size car with a strong enough frame and suspension to handle the typically poor roads of the time.
Thanks again for posting.

 

Who is the girl in front of Bo Hopkins? I can't place her in the AG movie?

 

I don't think the boss gave any such warning, I only saw from whiners..Gees, just skip over what you don't like..

 

You must have been asleep when the warning was given and the tread was stripped of a lot of non-car material. Flatheadguy is correct.

 

isn't that Kathy Quinlan who played Peg?

 

With the VW? Yes I guess it could be!

 

Yup.. Kathleen Quinlan played Laurie's friend, Peg.

 

Nice field car!

 

Ah, at the sock hop,""Joe Colledge strikes out""

 

I think she and Mr Wolf had something going on.

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See, I did skip over it !!

 

… kinda fateful, tragic, funny and weird all at the same time, but see how the actual star of the movie of which the basic story line was written and built upon as the loner rodder and how all the town clique kids and the rich kid with a hot chevy interact, is shown here almost Cut out of this group photo and pushed to the far left, just about like what happened to his career after this movie …. but that's how I guess, it goes more ways than not.

 

colorized

original

 

Here is the car that Francis sponsored for the '54 LaCarerra Panamerica, with my old friend Len Sutton as driver.

 

BornBuick - The AG reunion shot made me squint, for sure. Lemat standing next to the coupe, guess that's Dryfuss with Suzanne, Curt finally met the blonde in the T Bird!

 

Tuscaloosa

Bloomfield Iowa

Lebanon Indiana

Murfreesboro TN

 

Fort Worth

 

The second to last picture of Swi's is the '38 Chrysler Walter P. had built for his wife. It is all aluminum and esd just restored and shown at Hershey.

 

The VW in Graffiti was driven by Lynne Marie Stewart. I'm not that nerdy, I had to google it.
Mart.