Vintage shots from days gone by!

Is it time to spring clean our cars yet?

 

yup you're right, thanks, she was even a rockette, very beautiful woman

 

In another time, long before solid state electronics and digital recordings, cars and light trucks equipped with enormous loud speakers like the ones seen on this sparkling 1940 Buick roamed the streets of America’s cities and towns, foisting information of all sorts onto an unsuspecting public. Whether it was a movie premier, a political campaign or the price of peas at the local market, vehicles so equipped spread the word far and wide.

We here don’t know exactly what this group of earnest ad men are promoting in this posed shot, but they certainly seem to be hatching a precise plan to target their intended audience. We invite our faithful readers to offer suggestions as to what they were up to. Much more at The Old Motor.

 

We discovered another neat photo of the Frayer-Miller in The Peter Helck photo archives, and you can learn more about all three of the 909 c.i. air-cooled racers that were built for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup race on The Old Motor.

 

In regard to the Super Constellation - rode one all the way to Japan (stops in Honolulu and Midway) in 1957, and back to San Francisco in 1960. Comfortable ride, but those nine hour hops seemed awfully long. But not as long as nighttime recon missions over the Sea of Japan.

 

Isn't that a young Charlton Heston with the lunch bucket on the left? Headed for his Science and Human evolution class in school? LOL Gary

 

This is Main St. in Clarksville looking east, this row of buildings are long gone but the two story buildings, across the street, are still there. Sue remembers the King's grandson from grade school (late 50's/early 60's), he would talk about his grandparents owning a cafe in town.

 

Back to Tacoma.

 

Gatlinburg, Tennessee ca. 1960

Notice the license plate numbers. I can see they both have National Park lettering on the back. Wonder if the belonged to the hotel or actually to the park(which I doubt)

 

RE Post 69969: I'd be willing to bet that the cars belonged to the hotel. It was a common practice for some of the hotels in Gatlinburg to provide motorized tours of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I've seen photos of a triple-axle Packard from the 1930s with the logo of a Gatlinburg motel on the door. After a closer look, I believe I can see some sort of logo on the door of the Ford, as well as on the trunks of both cars.

 

Tacoma.

 

There is one in either Athens or Sweetwater Tn. Guy that sandblasts cars, it was parked out by his blast building.

 

Maybe for weddings?

 

more.

 

like this ?

 

I have one in the 357 cal that has markings on it that says its a trainng rifle for Aust. commonwelth service. Got my first deer with that rifle in 1960.

 

Thumbs up from Downunder guys.

 

Gainesville, Florida with some mixed type of transportation on Main Street (from the Florida Department of Transportation.)

 

It's been 2 months since I last viewed this thread and now it'll take me two months to catch up!

 

Not a chance. This bird wins that award:

 

sorry scarebird, my vote goes for an F4 phantom 2

 

Nope.

It has to be one of these two.





And since this is a Car Forum, lets go with the Bugatti...

 

wat? that hump-backed, broke winged, droopy nosed smoky son of bitch?

 

Fairbanks Alaska 1958 2nd Ave.

 

two months, good luck

 

Nice pinup!