Vintage shots from days gone by!

So you have demonstrated you don't know what Carole Lombard or Betty Grable looked like. Believe what you like. but I am not wrong.

 

Peter is here with the screen name, guess what ? " Swifty "

 

Henry, what sort of overhead motor is that in the Eddie Ford T?

 

G'day Mart, 318 cu in Dodge. BTW, h.a.m.b member Flat Oz is Swifty,s son.

 

Somebody please school me on the partial tire overlay on the tire of the twin Ardun car ! Purpose ??????

 

Thanks for the interesting photo of Troy Ruttman, Rootie!

I have to wonder if this is being done a day or so after Ruttman won the 500. Towing the race car behind the truck with the movie camera crew is a little different. This footage might show up somewhere in an old manufacturer's film of the race. Back then it was the various automotive accessory firms that made promotional racing films.

 

LSR tires are very thin and made of Unobtainiem. The tire overlay is to protect the tire surface while on the trailer traveling to Wendover.

 

post above #167572 -R&R Cyclone Overhead Valves - I never head of - but, Robert Roof designed/built many motor upgrades -1931 the "Cyclone" F Head and the "RCO Flash " SOHC for the model A and B Ford were introduced. Roof mounted Cyclone head on '29 roadster - over 2 1/2 mile course in Anderson, In - car did 100mph against the wind & 101 with the wind

 

Would be a hit at a modern day car show today

 

Way in the background....Is that a Divco?

 

If it is she's looking in the wrong direction to find the milk man.

 

No, thats a shack,,,,but I do see a jaguar

 

Time to do some digging..











Mart.

 

You guys share the coolest old photos, I love this thread!

It would be really cool to be able to get high quality reprints made of many of these great photos!


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A few more - all from LA.





Nice roadster pickup.


Dig the trike.


Unusual to see brand names that are still about now.


Unusual tyres on the 32 5W


Hope you're not getting bored of the gas station pics..




A Willys drops into the Victory Girls gas station.


Mart.