Vintage shots from days gone by!

I presume this is at the Packard Proving Grounds.

 

The Duesenberg engine looks more like the earlier single cam Model A, but with carb modifications.

 

That is Harry Miller. https://volumeone.org/articles/2016/04/07/14032_the_speed_started_here

 

The post in the center is a air hose . The mast bends to a spring loaded 45* angle allowing the hose to reach both sides of the car ...When released, it stood back up straight in the air & the air hose hung straight down ...As a youngster, I remember them also being used to, ah..., "launch" , projectiles ... Empty oil cans & things of that nature ..Pull it over with the hose, put the oil can on the tip, & let 'er rip...Not that I would do such a thing ....All the "big Kids" did it of course .....

 

Maybe tumbled off a cliff?

 

A better question is what is going on in that back seat?

 

You don't see that many people on the sidewalks nowdays...... What a shame...

 

This is the Packard Proving Grounds. What a fabulous car. It is more than likely a 1936 V-12 Phaeton. Wonder if it survived?

 

From the album of @gearheadruss kind of cool.

 

that is lightning !!!!