Vintage shots from days gone by!

We never owned a Willys, but we had a couple of Studebakers - this was the second one.


edit: sorry, replied to someone else's post, my bad..

 

1947, my Mom holding my older sister, just home from the hospital, the '39
Dodge behind her. In '49 they bought a new Studebaker, cause it had the cheapest V-8 you could get- according to my dad.

 

That's a 39 Chevy!

 

Beat me to it! Nice pic nonetheless.

 

If you ever come through New Mexico, stop at Blake's Lotaburger... add cheese and green chile... Highly recommended...

 

Nm...

 

oral roberts?

 

The girl or the bike?

 

It's the curves man - It's all about the curves

 

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It sure is...

 

Wow, how cool is that!? Nice, what you did with your dash grille. I'm sure Jess and Luke the Drifter would both approve!


A 'Jess-ism' I remember to this day....must've been '57 or so I was a little shaver, and Jess was walking with me to a dance joint called Teen Canteen - a family-friendly place for folks of all ages. Not having seen sawdust on the floor before, I asked Jess "Why?" He told me "Makes the floor slippery, the girls hold onto their boyfriends tighter when dancing so they won't fall down." 'Course, I didn't get it at the time. Later in life - I got it.

And thanks to tennesseecouchpotato<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_7882833", true); </SCRIPT> for your pic; you sure brought back some memories with that great looking Merc of your uncle's.

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IsettaJohn, man, you have to share with us any background info on this photo. If TuckerFan48 doesn't have it in his collection yet, he'll be barking this tree too. Awesome pic I never saw before, and it's the coolest find I've seen since Ed of Grimes, IA, turned up the snapshot of a Tucker on a used-car lot a couple of years back.

 

Of course it's a '52 Studebaker that has been "customized". The question is if anyone knows more about this particular car.

 

Once a month air raid drill. Yes, I remember it well. like the desk is going to protect you from a bomb...

 

The curves and lack of tattoos...

 

A-Bomb testing, Nevada probably late 40s/early 50s

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Early 50s interstate road signs

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Guess my family thought they ALL had to sit on the couch. It appears to be sagging in the middle.

Taken ~60 years ago. My mom and dad, on the far right, holding me and my older brother are in their 90's now.

 

Looks like the floor is sagging also ??????????/

 

Hahaha, Yeah what the heck is with that!! I didn't even notice before.

 

Lets see it again;

Love this photo!!

 

One of my grandfathers delivery trucks decked out for a 4th of July parade.



Grandpa's Harley Davidson delivery bike. That is not him on it, best family can recall is that is a delivery driver he employed named Eddie.

 

Those britches should last him till he's 15
(2nd from left)

 

My Dad and family with his father's Model A in 1970.

 

Great photo!
I got to meet this ED guy in Grimes. He must be my neighbor?
And he had a Tucker picture on a used car lot too? Wow what a small world!

Here is the Tucker picture I shared of just another used car on the lot!

Thanks
Lee in Grimes.

 

No he spent time, a little over a year in a camp setting but was never charged with a war crime as he was an engineer, never a party member and had his own design spec company which in time caught the eye of the 3 Reich in the thirties way before WWII. He help design the peoples car (volkswagen) which Hitler's third reich had intended for the everyday man and the newly in progress Autobahn under construction.

Just the facts - Ma'am.

 

Now that we talk about Tuckers, there is/was one in Brazil at the Roberto Lee museum:
http://www.autoclassic.com.br/galeria/museulee/album/index.htm
Long story short, the guy was murdered by his wife and the museum sat abandoned for 30 years (give or take) with predictable results:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/robert-lees-museu-de-caapava-lost.html
But seems that recently some effort was started to recover what was not stolen/looted/rotten (museum is located in a high temp and high humidity area):
http://taiada-blog.blogspot.com/2011/11/veiculos-do-museu-roberto-lee-sao.html
(deep sigh).

 

One of my parents' friends. Probably in Enid, Oklahoma.