Vintage shots from days gone by!

Simply incredible. What a small world us H.A.M.B.'rs live in. That was 50 years ago and if you were a teenager (13-19), that would put you somewhere between 63 and 69 today. I was 28 in 1966, I wonder what the chances are that we met and said hello?

 

This car is still in existence in a private collection. Lived most of its early life on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

 

#85- now that was a killer car- Ralph Salyer's Cheetah Chev that he hacked the top off because it was a furnace inside

 

This one's all restored now & I saw it for sale a few years ago for $550K!

 

Crater Lake, OR, July 5, 1941

 

The back of a t-shirt from the Cucamonga Garage museum.

 

All from New Zealand about 1969, Kopuku 'dragway'

 

It's just photo perspective, it's not really an inline 24. But it could be on the planet Zorton.

 

Hispano-Suiza

 

Yep now I'm 68 back in those days it was one of my yearly treats from my non car loving father. Once to Connecticut Dragway once to the Autorama every year. He seemed to enjoy the car shows better. I was a bit shy so probably didn't talk to any of my heros displaying cars there.

 

Actually , I was there too.. Autorama and Maratta's show , every winter.

 

… yes great place for the area music scene .. Oh and black ca plates were a midyear DMV release for 1963 replacing the yellow plates that had been used since 1956 ...

 

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