Vintage shots from days gone by!

Progress on all the same car

 

53 Buick Super



53 Super Riviera



54 Chevrolet




54 Super 88 Holiday




1955 C300 winner




55 Caddy

 

While we are on the subject this is a great shot of the 32 Ford assembly line



1961 Buick Line




1961 Ford line

 

Fabulous 1934 promotional film for Big Island, Hawaii:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1771397546440459

 

1952 PORSCHE "HALLER TAIFUN:" As reported in the 1953 Trend Book "Dream Cars," this was a German built custom sedan with a supercharged Porsche engine. In May, 1952 Popular Science shared the design was by Rudolf Haller - a speedboat and airplane builder.

more here:
https://www.facebook.com/ForgottenFiberglass/posts/1010097819013557

 

This looks like the Paul Weirick #1 car in 1946; probably at Williams Grove? I'm not sure of the driver at all. Could this be Joie Chitwood?

Thanks for posting, Rootie!

 

Looks like Bill Holland to me.

That Kuzma 81 was some horse. Won with Amick, Bisch, Sutton, Bettenhausen and ended up in Pa as a sprinter.

 

The girl with something extra....three legs....

 

One for each pedal.

 

Yes, it is Bill Holland.

 

"You got some splain'n to do".


Hey, its the only photo I could find with a car in it.

 

These illuminated tires were developed by Goodyear in 1961. They were made from a single piece of synthetic rubber and are brightly lit by bulbs mounted inside the wheel rim.

 

The house my wife and I have was built on the west side of Los Angeles (Melrose and Sierra Bonita) in 1930. The family we bought it from bought it at an auction in 1955 and moved it to Boyle Heights on the east side. I'd love to have a picture of the move like the one seen here. Here's the only picture I have of it from the time (only a photocopy):


Here it is now: