Vintage shots from days gone by!

Super guy and Super driver, Chuck Arnold

 

Harley Topper parked out in front of the billiard hall....good boy gone bad!?!

 

Now This is my kind of Grandma.

 

Hi Mart.Yep my mistake.Herb and Ad were some great shooters,and I sometimes mix them up.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

Parallel parking! Now that's a lost art! I would bet that it's not even taught any longer.

 

She must be from Pasadena

 

Columbus, Indiana 1950


Steve and his XKSS Jaguar heritage are going to build a limited number of continuation XKSSs to the exact original spec.


One for the trailer lovers.


Shop:



Ouch!


Don't know the story behind this one.


Or this one.














Blimey!


You gotta do what you gotta do.




Awwwww


Truck reminds me of the iron man cartoon movie


Ford V8s amongst the home grown offerings.

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Awsome ! Thank for sharing

 

Interesting steering arrangement on the trailers. Not sure what is going on.


Found a little info:
Originally conceived to assist logging in trackless wilderness, LeTourneau, famed for its earthmovers, devised the first of its land trains, the VC-12 Tournatrain, in 1953-1954 with a lead cab and three trailers. A 500hp Cummins diesel powered a generator that then fed electric motors at each wheel, thus spreading the power application across 16 wheels to enhance traction. A later iteration of the Tournatrain added a second Cummins and four more trailers to put 32 drive wheels to the ground.








Showoff.












Hope they've got an effective risk assessment in place..


Nairobi


Not Nairobi:


Jimmy B's Aston.


Blimey 2


Early wind tunnel work:


Berlin airlift 1948


Living the dream


Nice. (I have a pair of Engleberts on the back of my roadster.)

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If you mean the salt flats, that's not where the dragstrip is. The strip in the greater Salt Lake City area used to be called Bonneville Raceway, but some years ago it was aquired by a new owner and became Rocky Mountain Raceway.

Bad decisions make good stories.

 

Spectacular backdrop.






One for Maggie.








Packards on test.

Packard assembly.








1959 Austrian rally.









Washington DC Motorcycle Cop. 1924. Nice clear shot of the bike.




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According to Wikipedia:
René Stapp was a French racing driver who in 1932 attempted to break the land speed record with one of the most outlandish, and ugliest, cars to ever attempt to do so.
The car was built in Paris between 1930 and 1932, then taken to the popular Daytona Beach venue in the United States for an attempt at the land speed record.
Power was supplied by two Bristol Jupiter radial aero engines. Some web sources also describe the car itself as being named "Jupiter". Assuming a generous 600 bhp per engine in racing trim, this would have given a power comparable to Malcolm Campbell's cars and so it wasn't an obviously impossible contender. However the general engineering was at the Heath Robinson level and failed to inspire confidence.
The car was destroyed by fire on the beach at La Baule, a popular motor-racing venue of the period.

 

Another pic.

 

Hudson Bay Company. Victoria B.C. Canada. HBC show window sign says The "All New" 1949 Mercury

 

How did these trucks, with only 100 hp engines and far less than stellar braking systems, get these kinds of loads out of the forests? Gary

 

Slowly.

 

Dan Gurney's first F-1 ride.

 

A bunch of low low gears. And shifting ALL the time. LOL