Vintage shots from days gone by!

HAH! I can just make out "Spark plugs need cleaning too!"

 

We had one of those little devices at my friends gas station in the late '50's. It had sand in it. You screwed the spark plug into it and attached an air pressure hose and it sandblasted the plug clean! Then you checked the gap again and back into the car it went

 

That's correct. That's a shot of one of the "Harveycars" that were used in the Southwestern Indian Detours. You can see the "Harveycar" script on the radiator.

 

Wonder what the could have been saying here?

 

Car made from a drop tank.

 

"Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!"

 

FDR at the dedication of Bonneville Dam

 

My dad helped build those combines in East Moline, IL. The IH combine plant is an empty lot now.

 

Bill Snyder, was Minnesota Dirt Track champion from 1946-48, and was ranked fourth nationally in 1947. Bill would go on to set numerous diesel land speed records at Bonneville.

 

dang! drove by there just today!

 

Looks like McNary, We'll be driving by Saturday morning.

 

all that candy apple paint and chrome along with a swinging engine ,no fender covers and shirt buttons...

this pic made me cringe!!!!

 

Livin' dangerously!

 

Never saw a window in a smokestack before....

 

Gees they do it on TV all the time, script writers must have seen that pic?

 

I'm going to take a wag (wild ass guess) and say no one walked away from these wrecks.

 

You can see the boom mike and it's shadow in the shot.