VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Hunter Brothers doing some mid-air mechanical checkups during their 23-day-long flight without landing in 1930. Over the 23 days, food and fuel were delivered to them periodically by another airplane. [960x765]

 

Hermosa Beach Pier Avenue. About 5 doors right was Taco Bills, Home of the “Original Taco Burrito”

 

Brass balls!....

 

This Pontiac powered Street Roadster was built by a neighbor of mine when we were in high school. Note the rear fenders, "approved" by the track tech when running at San Fernando Drag Strip...George Klass

 

September 1962 - NE Sandy Blvd. & 47th Ave.

 

August 1963 - NE Sandy Blvd. & 52nd Ave.

 

May 1963 - NE Sandy Blvd. & 51st Ave.

 

Canadian National Railway

 

Hoover Suction Sweeper Co. Truck

 

Pierce-Arrow’s Final Offering – The Travelodge Travel Trailer





In an effort to save the Company in 1936, when some of its last cars were being assembled, the once-proud-old-line Pierce-Arrow Motor Company set a course to enter a new market. The automaker began building an outstanding new product, the Pierce-Arrow “Travelodge” luxury travel trailer.

 

Body by Dietrich – Refined and Exceptional Coachwork

 

Babe Stapp in a Duesenberg above in 1931 at Indianapolis, preparing for the 500 and below in a Alfa Romeo practicing for the 500 on May,19 1939.

 

Double Dial Pumps

 

There's a complete rig in the Clive Custler museum in Denver, Co.

 

The Speedster And The Girl

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Somehow those aren't as unsightly as windmills plastered all over what were once pristine landscapes.

 

I have taken lots of photos of this combo at the Petersen Museum.