Vintage shots from days gone by!

Forget to un-latch the tailgate did we?

regards,Rod.

 

Yup! Handles up.

 

Heyyyyyyy... she didn't pay the toll!

 

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The very first exibition wheelstanders' "ah ha" moment.

 

Badge of honor

 

Pose on your car? No way. When I worked in Weeki Wachi someone got me to do that.

 

Would like to say that Yale just released a bunch of photos; can categorize them by auto only from 35-45. Pretty neat.

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/search...35&month_start=0&year_stop=1945&month_stop=12

 

Crazy Canucker

 

What the heck is in those crates?

 

hound dogs?

 

Buena Vista Ferry near Independence, Oregon

 

rode it many times.....

 

pooh from what is in the crates is all over the car.

 

Portland, OR

 

Cold storage lockers where farmers store meat and vegetables, eliminating much home canning and preserving of foods. Independence, Oregon

 

August 1939 - Monroe, Benton County, Oregon. The Wilhelm mill closed ten years ago and service station "used to be quite a trading center around here until they had good roads."

 

Arlington, Oregon - Columbia River Gorge

 

Old Celilo fishing village, Wasco County, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

 

New home of Schroeder family. They left South Dakota three years ago in this car. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. October, 1939 - Dorothea Lange

 

Nyssa, OR

 

Picnic goers, Klamath Falls, Oregon

 

Grays Harbor, Washington

 

Tenino, Washington

 

I wanted to toss in a comment about the crates in the coupe and this popped in and I couldn't delete it.
Anyway, here's my effort; Looks like bears to me. Check out the claws.

 

Looks like that car was sitting where that Lincoln Zephyr that was up for sale in another thread was. And wouldn't the ass end of that car bee draggin if it was bears. Whatever they are they are S.O.L. Hey another 'A' without a trunk lid...

 

" Do I want to sell it you ask ? Why no way …. I'm still planning on restoring it someday just haven't had the time to get around to it yet. "