Vintage shots from days gone by!

More LA randomry.

One of these gents is earl Gilmore (so the caption says)


A kid on a bike doing what kids on bikes do. I like what he did with the handlebars.


Cars parked for the Charles Lindberg parade.


Unusual billboard with a car featured.


Jalopy or Gow Job. Discuss.


Floods.


Nearest car seems to be missing a fender.


T either half in or half out of the water, depending if you're a pessimist or an optimist.


Car near middle of pic could be a gow job or jalopy


That'll do for now, don't want to overdo it.

Mart.

 

Can anyone guess what the body style is of the partially hidden car with the white fabric top is?
I think it's a Model A.

 

I'd say it was a Model A Sport Coupe.

 

Same car different season? Doc MacKenzie in the Cresco Special. The car is restored today. Bob

 

When I first saw the photo I thought it was either an A-400 or a B-400, then I enlarged it and saw a barely visible quarter panel, leading me to your same conclusion.

 

You can just see the top of the landau iron that S shaped bracket that some people mix up and put on the wrong side.


Bob

 

"Unusual tyres on the 32 5W"

As I recall, these are tubeless ones developed back then that were puncture proof. Solid rubber with the holes in them so they had some "give". Could be wrong, though, since they are white even under the fender.

 

your pic post a ways back -#167584 - of the 4 guys sitting on the coupe runningboard makes me think of the characters Curt, Steve, John and Toad from American Graffiti but, in another town

 

Chicago. Look at that magnificent architecture!

 

If that is Carl's in Fullerton on Harbor, you couldn't get near that place on a Friday or Saturday night. And some of the hottest, baddass cars for that time period could be found cruising there.
They had rent-a-cops directing traffic. Of course when you had that kind of activity you also had the hottest babes too
Some of you don't know what you were missing in the 60's
I'm grateful to have experienced all the facets of the era.

 

I did see the shape of the iron but wishful thinking that it was the edge of the canvas top of a B-400 had me questioning.