Vintage shots from days gone by!

Pictures from the Harold Parker Collection, Huntington Library, early Pasadena, CA



This is listed as a 1925 Rickenbaker straight 8

 

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They look fine but have a small "border" around them and it looks like something like clips holding them in place.

 

They ??? look fine you say. I only see one. 296ardun says "these" pictures. Anyway, only one to see at my end.

regards,Rod.

 

I'm sure I'll get blasted for my comment but after 5 days away and only a page and a half added one has to wonder what's going on with the best site on the web, I liked the old format better. Are people afraid to speak up or am I the only one?

 

I miss seeing real old gas stations that did everything from tune-ups to brakes and everything else in between.

I used to just sign the tickets and at the end of the month they would send me the bill for gas and repairs to the trucks.

Don't see that much anymore. Jimbo

 

Nice contributions SWI66!

 

My favorite coffee. GN

 

I too like this site and look at it every day but the new format is not as user friendly for this old timer and sure dose not get anywhere near as many post, use to grow buy a couple pages a day now it's barely moving. I vote for the old forum. Even though they won't change it there 's my two cents...

 

Excellent shots....... thanx..you don't see boneyards like the recent pic here !!

 

That's the Olympic Drive in in West Los Angeles, Its a Cadillac dealer ship now at Olympic & Bundy





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SA 1920011 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

SA 1920008 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

Chuck Jones flew over 90 feet after being thrown from the car. A broken hip the result.
http://winfield.50megs.com/Cejay/Chuck_Jones_crash.htm

regards,Rod.

 

Camaro Caribe

 

Pretty much all British, but some cool pix among them.
Taken from here: http://www.vintag.es/2013/05/old-photos-of-midget-cars.html
The site has all sorts of stuff, plenty of old car pix. http://www.vintag.es/

regards,Rod



Old Photos of Midget Cars

An interesting collection of old photos of midget cars

 

The destroyed car of prince Bernhard after he hit a truck loaded with sand on the Muiderstraatweg in November 29, 1937.
Car accidents. Collision of two cars. The Netherlands, location unknown. Before 1914.
Car racing accident on the Grunewald racing track in Berlin. The car is tilted back in the background while the injured driver is carried away, Berlin 1921.
Car racing. As if shot by a catapult, the American driver Cassidy flies through the air, followed by the cushion of his cockpit. Badly bruised, the driver ended up in the hospital. Washington 1936.
The driver of this car on fire managed to drive into the sea and jump out of the car, England, 1926.
Little boys play after a traffic accident with two trapauto and a tricycle. Netherlands, 1935.
Motorcycle racing accident. The bike is upright in the sand while the rider still flies through the air. England, 1935.

regards,Rod

 

British motoring pioneer, Charles Stewart Rolls (1877–1910), in his first racing car, the 8hp Panhard Lavassor, built in 1898 and fitted with pneumatic tyres, 1899.


The R-100 Streamline car with its designer Sir Denniston Burney, 1931. (Photo by Evening Standard)


A driver on the Horseshoe Pass in North Wales wiping the snow from the windscreen of his car during a heavy snow storm, 18th January 1937. (Photo by Norman Smith)


A motor sale at Hendon, March 1919.


Competitors setting off from Pentonville on the “Challenge Tyre Company” Motor Tyre Testing Trip to Brighton, 1912.


An early example of a commercial lorry. 9th January 1913.


A Peugeot Motorboat Car, seen from above with a van passing behind it, October 1925.


A contestant in a midget motorcycle race, left, beside a man riding a motorcycle, September 1923.


The Napier team for the Gordon Bennett motor car race of 1903 (left to right) Stock, Farrott and Edge.


A Milnes Daimler lorry at Earls Court, London, June 1911.


A Great Western Railway sightseeing charabanc outside the National Gallery, London, circa 1910.


Traffic scene at Shoreditch, East London, 1929.


Herman Frics, one-time saloonkeeper and now evangelist and principal supporter of the Hand Of God Mission of Brooklyn, New York, with the church on wheels, which he takes into the city's slums to preach, circa 1925.


Motorists inspect a device designed to reduce dazzle from a vehicle's headlights. Here fitted on an Austin, 1925. (Photo by MacGrego)


Commandeered private automobiles for army usage parked in Paris, 1914.


Laurels for Camille Jenatzy (in driver's seat), the first man to exceed 100 kph (62 mph) at Acheres, near Paris. The car, christened “Jamais Contente”, was an electric vehicle of his own design, 1899.


A camping car at the Motor Show, Olympia, showing how the inside can be adjusted to make a bed. Built by A. C. Penman Ltd of Dumfries. 17th October 1929. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine)


German racing driver and engineer Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951) driving an Austro Daimler at the Prince Henry Trial, 1910. (Photo by Keystone)


Pioneer motorist and aviator Frank Hedges Butler in his Panhard car, followed by Mr Astell in a New Orleans, a mile outside St. Albans on the return leg of the Automobile Club 1,000 mile trial, 1900. (Photo by Edgar Scamell)


New Zealanders leaving by car to catch the boat during the railway strike, October 1919. (Photo by Davies)


A mobile car repair shop during the railway strike. 3rd October 1919. (Photo by A. R. Coster)


Daimler and Leyland lorries which are being used for deliveries during the railway strike. 3rd October 1919. (Photo by A. R. Coster)


A Ministry of Food lorry loaded with beef at Smithfield market, London, during the railway strike, October 1919.


A driver leaning on his wrecked lorry, after he collided, and destroyed, a bollard in Holland Park, London, 25th May 1935. (Photo by J. A. Hampton)


A group having lunch on the Guilivant road, where the allies first held up the German advance, September 1919.


A group of men travelling along a railway track using a sail-driven wagon at Spurn Head, England, October 1922.


A car ends up in a ditch after being driven off the road, somewhere in Persia, circa 1925.


President Hindenburg of Germany (1847–1934) driving through the streets of Cologne with the Burgomaster Dr. Konrad Adenauer (1876–1976), March 1926. (Photo by Grandery)


Pioneer motorist and aviator Frank Hedges Butler driving his Benz car, 1898.


Children sitting in the back of an Austin Seven car driven by a man dressed as King Neptune, in the procession to celebrate the opening of Dartmouth's Carnival Week. 13th July 1936.


A Morris Commercial taxi-cab and its driver. 11th April 1935.


Aviation pioneer Claude Grahame-White (1879–1959) at the wheel of a motor car during the filming of a Western film, with other members of the cast as passengers, 1910.


American inventor, industrialist and motor car pioneer Henry Ford (1863–1947) driving an 1860 Pageant motor car whilst his wife Clara sits beside him.