Vintage shots from days gone by!

I google image searched this one.

Worth the effort. Houses in the way of the development of the I5. Bought by the state and auctioned off. Some were dismantled, some moved wholesale, which is a sight that always fascinates me. In the UK if we say we're moving house, it just means you're moving to another house. I like it when people used to actually move the house.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...w-seattle-homes-saved-from-i-5-wrecking-ball/

 

I dunno, he looks tired.


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Maybe it's a "one lap to go " signal??

 

Listen red shoes....YOU get the battery & I'll get the hubcaps...Got it ???

 

New definition for "Backseat driver!"

 

The driver was Ralph Ligouri at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in 1964.
His speed was too slow to qualify and this is on the “cool down” lap.

The photo shot itself could have been staged

 

Or a gas dragster....

 

Since this place is all about history, I always wondered what year the "bird" was first flipped.....

 

A long time ago, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_finger

Pete

 

Please...Please show me that used car lot right now..I'll take with a 6...

 

423 BC

 

Won't argue the point, but I thought the driver was Chuck Booth. The other guy is Wally Meskowski , his mechanic. Considering the personalities involved, I would assume they were just exchanging pleasantries.

Chuck was a hell of a guy. Never going to be one of the all time greats, but the personification of the term "journeyman driver".

 

I know I am being picky but that one is a Phoenix, the next spec up from the Pioneer. It has the extra chrome on the side that the Pioneer doesn't have. In '61 the Dart came in three trim levels; Seneca, Pioneer and Phoenix. In NZ we only got the mid spec Pioneer. At least ours were all V8s. In the US the base engine was the 225 slant six.

 

I sure wasn’t planning to ask James Dean!

 

Been in that place in 78 with my hot rod for the Yellowstone rod run.

Pat

 

Being a V8 it is nowhere near as rare as the 4 cylinder version. The book says 6585 V8s built vs 189 fours. Still only a small percentage of the total 1933 Ford production of over 300,000.

 

First On Race Day

 

Refreshed and renewed.