Vintage shots from days gone by!

Neat car, note the inverted louvers.
Funny, they understood aerodynamics but not electric starters, I suppose that hand crank could be a backup.

 

They understood that electric starters and the batteries to run them added unnecessary weight.

 

Interesting how perspective in photography can make people look huge.

 

I was wrong, this is a Type 32 Bugatti from 1923 with a Type 30 straight eight engine. A Google search will turn up lots on current photos of restored cars. Bob

 

Yes that's what they did.Also on the front door of the car is a decal which suggests it was a Hertz rent a car at the time!...

 

God I'm glad someone asked, I thought I should know but didn't, the wrap around of the fenders to the tailpan threw me off.

 

I submit 34 Hudson.?

 

Elwood and Jake?

 

Hmmm, gas filler on the wrong side? Not sure that's it.
Thanks.

 

Flint, MI

 

Holy Smokes!!!
You couldn't drive this thing if you had legs. Man that cockpit is tight

 

Fortuitously, it was a quick trip.

 

Terraplane taillight glass is pretty obvious...

 

I sense fakey shmakey....

 

If you examine the license plate in the color shot, it looks like it’s been pounded straight(ish). And the imperfections in the straightened plate sort of match where the plate was bent in the wreck shot. Maybe, just maybe, the color shot was taken later.

That’s what I believe and I’m stickin’ with it.

 

Here’s a couple from one of my little books.


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I had one of those but a year newer,would like to have another but in much nicer shape.