Vintage shots from days gone by!

Very Thunderbird like.

 

Around 1970, a kid brought in a Saab Sonett - the one with the little v-4 ford engine. Stuff was always breaking on it. Michigan winters were not kind to it & already had signs of severe rusting going on with the chassis. He begged me to buy it for next to nothing. The last time he brought it in, I fixed it and he never came back to pick it up.

IMO, the motor weighed too much & made too little horsepower.

 

RayHibbard by mactexas, on Flickr

 

Me love you long time.

 

Yeah, that's a classic looking machine. The one I worked on looked like this:

http://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/4566,11799/Saab-Sonett-II.aspx

 

Yeah, the Saab Sonett seems a longer story ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Sonett

 

#72 Jag - who,where,when?

 

Dick Protheroe, Goodwood, 1954, unhurt.

 

Lots of French cars in Vietnam, for a reason. The taxi #7533 in the 1st photo is a mid-50's Peugeot 203, the rest are tiny Renault 4CV's, probably the smallest ever 4D car with a 750cc four in-line behind the rear seat.

 

Vietnam used to be known as French Indo-China.

 

Off to Bugorama.

 

Deutschland 1930's nach 1960's.

 

downtown London vacation
London strange streets and blocks
Hello,
On our vacation to London when we were 25, (46 years ago) we saw a bunch of strange cars and city streets. They were not the square blocks that we were used to back in So Cal. Walking was preferred, even though the underground trains were pretty efficient. It just did not appeal to us to take a train, when we could walk or take a taxi cab and see the sights along the way...

Jnaki

 

Eddie Sachs after a midget win at the old Cincinnati Race Bowl in the Hoffman car. That's owner Gus Hoffman with his hand on the headrest. I believe this would have been about 1955.

Edit: Now that I look closer that guardrail looks like the track might be the 16th Street Speedway instead of Cincinnati. Do you have the track name, Rootie? Thanks.

 

My info says it's the 16th st. speedway June of 55.

 

I would vote for 16th Street. From the stories I heard from the oldtimers, Race Bowl had more bank than shown in the picture.

Also didn't realize that Gus Hoffman ever had a midget. I always thought he was totally a sprint car guy.

 

The smallest one is a Saab 210

 

Byline says, Portland OR 1970

 

Way cool thing that "I did not know"!

 

"She's not bad...she's just drawn that way."

Rob