VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

western PA's Dick Bailey at Daytona reported as 1959

 

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Chicago Northwestern railroad. My grandfather worked for that rail road for much of his life.

 

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This could easily be a 1959 ad.

1 more car I promise, Rex Winter
Dry n windy Lubbock TX

 

That Cheetah is just one of the best looking cars ever, especially the rear. GM must have had their finger in the styling.

 

OCIR late 60s early 70s. I'm pretty sure I was at that race.


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My grandfather had one of those. I used to ride on the package shelf! And yet, I'm still here.

 

I had to google image the less than pretty six seater car. Beechcraft Plainsman. Interesting.
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I looked it up, and it had an air-cooled engine driving a generator with an electric motor at each wheel. Talk about ahead of its time.

 

Jocko?

 

in 1921, the “Great Olympic Blowdown” downed vast expanses of Douglas Fir trees on the Olympic Peninsula and toppled steel smokestacks.


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Marshall Teague daytona 52



Daytona 1947



Daytona

 

Fomoco promo photo

 

Diesel submarine engine room

 

Waiddaminnit!
Is this before it went through the bridge deck, or is the one where it appears to have gone through the deck a photoshop job???