Vintage shots from days gone by!

Detroit 1965

 

Detroit 1955 - Speedway 79 Filling Station

 

Detroit 1967

 

Dearborn Early 1960's

 

You sure that's Dearborn? I'm certain I've seen that shot in Cars of the Sizzling '60s captioned as being in Illinois or Indiana. It was a FoMoCo promotion where they gave everyone in town a new Ford to try instead of their daily driver - turning the town into Ford Town, USA.

-Dave

 

Ford HQ Dearborn - 1950's

 

Lexington MI 1949

 

Lake St Clair MI 1920's Prohibition

 

One of the original coneheads.....

 

From France, no-doubt!

 

Hudson. Maybe 46 or 47. First car I remember riding in. They traded it in for a 49. I am a 42 model.

 

I was just gonna log in and respond to that...

It's a Hudson Commodore. Hard to nail down the exact year from that shot, but mine is a '47 and has the same taillights, fender trim, bumpers, and bumperettes, so it's gotta be pretty close to that year. They are cool cars for sure. Very different from the rest.

 

Thanks !

 

Wisconsin 4 cyl, air cooled, ind. motor

 

OMG, a 4x4 on HAMB?

 

If they come up small: click on them to get the big versions

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Probably earned those tats in the service in WWII and if you called them "body art" he'd knock you on your ass.

 

I don't know where he got the tattoos, but I sure want to know where he got that t-shirt!

-Dave

 

Actually it is Flora, IL. in September 1960. Billed by Ford as the "Biggest Test Drive In History". Renamed Ford Town USA for a week as 1500 new Ford cars and trucks were loaned to the liscensed drivers of the town to test drive.

 

]..no, it's Lady GaGa's great grandmother...

 

I have a friend whose uncle was killed after being knocked off his tractor and being run over by the disks! Could you IMAGINE??! AAAH!

 

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Silver Streak?

 

Take your pick from this lot (Courtesy UCLA Digital Library,) Caption reads "Used Car Lot"

 

Dorothy McGrath lounging on a Los Angeles beach while using "Walkie Talkie" radio set, circa 1947 (Courtesy UCLA Digital Library)

 

Man, I LOVE these old photos. Come to think of it, I have quite a few of my own old automotive pix. I'll have to round them up, and post some of them here.