Vintage shots from days gone by!

The tank is in the cab on these truck? What is he filling?

 

1935 Popular Mechanics, submitted by the Good Idea Fairy.

 

San Antonio PD, Nueva St.

 

You better like this music...

 

Just West/South of intersection with Harbor Blvd.

 

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52-3 Ford with a roll bar..now that's not something you see everyday...I think she will need to move up the seat a little to reach the clutch.,but I doubt anyone noticed.

 

52-3 Ford with a roll bar..now that's not something you see everyday...I think she will need to move up the seat a little to reach the clutch.,but I doubt anyone noticed.[/QUOTE]She could reach the CARBURETOR with those gams!!

 

I guess he would make it if he didn't have a heart attack =[

 

More on this subject...

 

ididirod training

 

I had a customer that would pay me with a $2 bill every month(the rate was $1.50 per mo.).
I found out later, that was a "calling card" back then for certain kind of people. Learned later he was one!

 

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Except that it is a '49 Buick.

 

Except that it is a '49 Buick.[/QUOTE]I think he was bragging that his Dodge could float and the Buick can't.

 

Getting caught up again. All new to the H.A.M.B., first from Del Rio, TX High School in 1956:

 

Next, Redmond, OR High School, 1948:

 

Finally a couple family photos. 1957; my parents' apartment in Evanston just after the neighbors got a new Fairlane 500:

And this was a mystery for a long time. My mother in the late 1940s, when she was in high school, with her friend's car:

When I was little, I asked her what make it was; she thought it was a LaSalle. Looking at it today for the first time in years, I knew it wasn't, but what was it? I knew it didn't match any GM, Ford, Mopar, or Studebaker, so by process of elimination I tried Nash - and whaddya know:


1938 Nash Lafayette. Turns out Mom was half right - it was named after a famous Frenchman whose name began with "La"...

 

Christchurch, New Zealand 1920s.

 

I think he was bragging that his Dodge could float and the Buick can't.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I see. Missed that completely

 

The 1883 Ladd Carriage House

 

"Apparently, DOT used to be less in your face. My uncles log truck in 1947, Lane County, Oregon." Duane Huddleston

 

Sherwood Lodge, Yachats, Oregon - around 1955.Originally built for the CCC and then turned into a lodge later. Burned down in 1960. Pretty popular spot.

 

Christchurch, New Zealand 1920s.