Vintage shots from days gone by!

Forward control Dodge truck must be kind of unusual?

 

Ninety Mile beach in the far north of New Zealand. Vehicle access to the beach is still the same as it always was; via a stream bed. I rode it on a Laverda 750 motorcycle in 1975. The beach is regarded as a public road so the road rules apply. Later pictures just for reference. Obviously washing vehicles after running the beach is a must.

 

Car still exists, is owned by a GM bigwig! Even gets driven.

 

It's been a good day, Gary. A milk bone for you!

 

Gary, you are the best. You old dog!

 

Well, thank you.
I'm just takin' care of business. Scratchin' the itch.
Uh huh.

 

Great job Gary!

 

He ain't nuthin', but a hound dog!

 

In the King Coal Chevrolet photo, the house in the background is a LUSTRON HOME. One of 2,500 pre-fabricated
houses designed and built by the Lustron Corporation. The factory, where they were manufactured, was the same
factory that Preston Tucker occupied to build his famous vehicle. And like Preston Tucker, the Lustron company was
forced to vacate the premises due to questionable government "actions".
There is now a national registry of Lustron houses that can be viewed online.
The homes were all metal. The outside panels were enameled in blue, yellow, tan or green, so there was no need to
paint. The roof, like the exterior walls, was made of pre-fab metal units. And then there was the interior, which was comprised of all white enameled steel panels. To keep the house heated, ceilngs had heating elements
embedded in the over head panels
One of the selling points of the Lustron Home was if the owner wanted to build an edition onto the house,
an exterior section could be unbolted and and an extra, complete, pre-fab room could be added on within a day.

Here is a link:
http://www.oldhouseweb.com/architecture-and-design/lustron-homes-part-1.shtml

 

Thanks again. Going to run some errands, got to flea the scene.

 

I wonder where it is now?

If it still exists what it looks like?

 

Catch fences of the early days