Vintage shots from days gone by!

" Monaro motors " Now thats a great company name for a muscle car dealer.
Only meaningfull in Australia.

 

I have that same Valvoline can hanging in my garage.

 

[er: 52251"][/QUOTE] And then John D said- lets see if the Grand Prix engine fits in the Tempest !

 

Can't ever have too many utes, thanks.

 

SW Main and SW 19th 1966. City of Portland Photo

 

B & J Automotive




Bit of a Bear



Bushwhacker

 

same car

 

Before there was carbon fiber or fiberglass bodies, there was the hole saw...


A couple of families in the neighborhood are going to have wet newspapers in the morning for awhile...


Wow! Just wow...
There was a time when you could go to the races with a Top Fuel car and carry pretty much everything you needed in the back of a pick-up truck...


Forget Pisano's Corvair. In the background is the first (technically) In-N-Out burger stand...
Yes, the early drag strip pit area was frequently a large weed patch, and nobody complained. Good luck trying to get racers to pit their cars in the weeds today...
Pomona. Probably in the 1950's (the track first opened in 1951), long before the Winternationals began (1961)...

 

Store location from the Rob Reiner classic movie, "Stand By Me".

 

these shots are from castlewood, mo., which was a big resort area in rural st. louis county. the top pic was from 1946; the "bow wow" mentioned was a gangster called bow wow mcquillan. castlewood was a great place to get a drink during prohibition. bottom two shots were taken in the '20s.

 

" I have that same Valvoline can hanging in my garage."....

Do you think they know that you took it ????

 

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