Vintage shots from days gone by!

Going over all those pictures of classic cars in old junkyards (they were just old junk cars then) I realized that, maybe 50 years from now, if the world is still in one piece, people will be eagerly looking for Fairmonts or Corollas the same way we look today for '50s Chevys or '30s Packards. And this, my friends, would be REALLY depressing.

 

Not really. The pool of old cool cars are drying up or getting more expensive to obtain. I'll tell ya, as someone who spends his weekends at shows, A car like a Pinto or Vega (stock or built) gets lots of attention. You oughta be around Kenosha when they bring out the Pacers, Gremlins and Hornets. I for one would like a car of that type in a few years. Of course thats before I find an old Packard Hawk.

 

Another way of putting it

 

Long time before streched "Limos"

 

That looks like it could be a right hand drive but my guess is that the negative was flopped.

 

i was told a few years back that the diesels accelerate and stop so much quicker that load shifts in the cars killed quite a few hobos. told to me by a railroad detective. just isnt safe any more

 

When I worked at Deere, and we still got train cars to unload, we closed and locked the cars after they were empty. We sent them back loaded with returns to the factory locked and sealed.
You couldn't get into a car to ride if you wanted to.

 

Lurker Micker flipped the image back properly back on Post 46,667 on May 16. The Chrysler "C" appears forward, as in the alphabet. Rock was actually leaning on the New Yorker's passenger side. 31Dodger also noted that only a bit over 4,000 of the 4-door hardtops were made that year.

 

Guy looks a little like Yogi Berra

 

back in the eaRLY 70S i hopped a train going from elgin il to chicago, maybe 50, 60 miles. my jump off point was hanover park il.maybe 15 miles from elgin. i was 16.when the train pulled past my spot it was going full tilt. aint no way im jumpin!!! i ended up in chicago and had to walk miles to find a phone to call my dad to come and get me. he was waiting to drive 15 miles to pick me up but had to drive in the opposite direction and alot more miles.boy did i get my ass busted.instead of going to elgin to pick me up he had to go to chicago. not good!!!lol

 

And the day wouldn't be complete without at least one Corvair photo.....

 

No power no problem, We got gas

 

We also have a word (actually two) for them: milking machine.

 

This photo was taken shortly after Tucker #1027 rolled over during testing at Indy in October of 1948. The car was driven off the track. Unfortunately the car was parted out but almost every part is accounted for today. Much of it is in use on other Tuckers. Even the doors still exist.

 

"Early model T burnout"!!!

 

I'd hate to be there when the cockeyed jack gave way to vibration or a nudge, the T dropped, and sparks flew!

 

... & it ripped the pump from its mountings, scattering gas and shrapnel in all directions... I suspect the guy behind the pump is more 'sheltering' than 'camera shy' :O

 

Johnny Eck

 

Made real strong wire back then

 

TuckerFan, you'e always Johnny-on-the-Spot RE posts like this. The Tucker site may have bitten the dust due to (apparent) infighting, but you have a FAN club right here on the HAMB!

I'm wondeirng if this is one of the two or three Tuckers referred to by a gas jockey who personally filled their tanks on their way to Indy? The fella told the story over on my 'Extinct' thread, if anybody cares about that first-hand account. -- Jimi

 

The poor little woman there also had a name, Minnie Woolsley. I tried to cover "side-show freaks" respectfully a few months back, but some folk on this thread apparently didn't like reality and said they'd seen enough of that. Heck, I thought we were covering the good, the bad and the uncomfortable of history.