Vintage shots from days gone by!

Must be Canadian inches. On account of the exchange rate...

 

July 4th San Antonio Texas
SA 1920028 by mactexas, on Flickr

SA 1920027 by mactexas, on Flickr

SA 1920029 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

Since member racer-x will soon be filling Woodward Av with NITRO FUMES here it is in the "Old Days"


As many of you know Woodward boasted the first concrete paved portions of public road in the country. It started out as a path, and was eventually upgraded to logs, then planks were laid, and then concrete and eventually pavement.

The story of Woodward is in many ways the story of the car itself and the story of the Woodward Dream Cruise has definitely helped preserved a road that has been as decorated as a ribbon of pavement could be.

 

Big Daddy Ed Roth

Roth's Shop in Maywood, his Ol' 55 & plywood form for one of his Pizza-Oven 'Bubble Tops' out front.






Early Big Daddy – hand airbrushing Monster Shirts, pre-Fame and screenprint days. Above right, Justifiably Proud Big D with Outlaw, 1956-60. His 1st FiberGlass car, and its Offspring, the Revell licensed model.




Roth's Outlaw, at an early 60's L.A car show, his early airbrushed T-shirts on display.




Working on Mysterion at his shop 1963



His lightweight, rear-engine Space-Age Road Agent, used a rear-mounted Corvair engine and ultra-light construction, you’ve gotta love those StarTrek pods on the sides….preceding the StarShip Enterprise.





Big Daddy, no Average Beatnik – demonstrated a Stroke of Pure Genius completely devoid of Modern Technology….i.e. arguably the first use of what we know as ‘RGB’ color in a non-printing application.

 

Columbia, Tennessee

 

A hickey from Kanicki is like a greeting card from Hallmark.

 

Jimmy Bryan in Doug Caruthers' Viking Trailer Special. He missed the show in his first attempt at Indianapolis. I wonder if the car just stopped on the track with mechanical problems or if Bryan spun it?

 

Thanks for the photos. I'll guarantee that the corner of Michigan and Woodward doesn't look like that today.

 

Happy 4th to all.

 

I have so many hickeys I look like a leper.

BTW, what a great movie)

 

Intetesting that the brake pedals are different in CP's and Vert's. Anyone have one of each or?

 

I MISS the days when the 4th of July meant DRAGS!!!!
Butch Pipins driving the Pipins & Green AA / FA

 

Or maybe the goat is bagged?


Naaawwwww.

 

What goat?

 

Eugene, OR

 

OCIR...... Damn I miss that place!!!

 

Used the Fiat because he didn't want a Bug?

 

Let's see! Ready for the fishing trip?
Poles!
Bait!
Tackle!
Beer!
Chairs! Sunscreen!
1959 Chevy station wagon!
YEP WE'RE READY!

HEY! Caught something!!

 

Dapper

 

Glamorous Hollywood

 

Sparks Meadow, Bend, OR