Vintage shots from days gone by!

What year & make are these taxi's ??

 

lee remick

 

thanks for the pic.

 

1941 Chrysler??

Ben

 

My guess would be that they are Checkers. They built a lot of weird looking cabs that you see in old photos, but rarely see in real life. They look like a '42-'48 shape body. If they were anything like the Checker Marathon, they could have lagged the styling of other cars, which means they could be newer.

 

Some more Old Ford Ads

Note the lack of ford Oval

 

Here are some older Checkers from a previous post above.

 

More Checkers:

 

^^^^^^^ I remember the last photo of this bunch as a kid in the middle 50's rarely seen these days, not a ad looking car , seems like it has a mild chop.

 

What't the story on the Thermo-Dine car?
Thermodyne is what Mack called their diesels in the B series trucks. The photo is too early to have a performance diesel, even though it does look like it could be Australia or somewhere else where they have hot rod four-doors, right hand drive, and cars that burn oil on purpose.

 

Laurel Camp at Wolf Creek, Oregon - around 1925-30ish

 

Crummy photo - interesting trailer concept, can't say that I've ever seen one, may not have been too popular.

 

Saw many home made ones. Fore runner of the toy haulers of today. A good way to use a 8-10' cab over camper and a Big Tex car trailer. Notice the wheels were what you see on smaller mobile homes when moving them.

 

First Toyhauler?
Another example of a great idea at the wrong time..

 

Grauman's Chinese Theater in 1927.

 

L. A. 1930

 

I think if they turned it 90 degrees to the rear they might have had something.

 

The one in front reminds me of a creepy female clown.

 

How rude of you.

 

THE Portland, Oregon Drive in, in the 50's -60's along with the Speck.

 

Hello,
I was reading an old page 3721 in this thread and thought everyone would like to see the vehicle in action. We were lucky enough to be at Lions when the Art Arfons' Green Monster showed up for some exhibition runs. It was impressive at the time. It took a minute to get going, but when it did...
Thanks,
Jnaki

 

Man, that picture is so clear.

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any info onthe image with the two linclons