Vintage shots from days gone by!

I'd take any car in that picture.

 

Rootie, you got me again. This car and driver doesn't look familiar at all. Any info on this photo?

Thanks!

 

Going by the tail number, this was Curtiss C-46A serial 44-77567. The date was March 20, 1945, and the accident was listed as "CBLEF" (Crash, belly landing, engine failure). Location was "10 miles north of Chicago", so this is probably adjacent to what is now O'Hare Field. (per aviationarchaeology.com)

 

Cool old add....

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A family friends parents cars. 271hp. Also the beginnings of his dads hot rod

 

Accident, Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA.

Accident, Pasadena, CA - late '40's


Accident, Pasadena, CA, early '50s.


Making a cowboy movie (or ad, maybe). Photo by J. Allen Hawkins, who was not only one of Pasadena CA's most famous photographers, but also drove a '32 Ford cabriolet


Wreck, Colorado Blvd. 1945


Later the Colorado Street Bridge, built around 1912-13.


Wreck, Colorado & Oakland, Pasadena, CA, 1945. Another picture of this crash shows two sailors standing by this disaster, which obviously took out a fire hydrant.....they look like they might have had a few too many....

It snowed in Pasadena, 1949. Those of us who lived there then will never forget it...City Hall under a blanked of white stuff....

 

It was owned by Ray Koch a Harley dealer in Denver. It was raced both blown and n/a on the ovals in the central states and at the PP hillclimb in the late 50s early 60s. Earl Kouba was often the driver.

 

Let's see more of this one! Windshield looks like '55-'56 Dodge or Plymouth; that framework must have been very strong but very heavy. Was it skinned with metal or fiberglass, and where is it now?

 

Wallula, Washington in the early fifties!

 

Yeah....

 

Put a Dodge in your garage!
The Little Old Lady from Pasadena with Charlie Allen.