VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Witt-Will Truck, built in Washington DC ~

 

Willow Creek OR '39 ~

 

Tombstone AZ '40 ~

 

'One-room hut housing family of nine built over chassis of abandoned Ford in open field between Camden & Bruceton TN' 1936 ~

 

Tulelake CA '39 ~

 

Who? What?


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No weeds at that motel.

 

Lots weird about that motel picture.
The '57 Ford is a fake, along with the flying saucers!

 

Looking at all of the very old homes and conditions people had to live through years ago makes me very grateful for everything I have today.
Just watching people using a well pump to fill a cup with water is painful.
Sometimes I think we kind of forget just how good we have it today.

Jimbo

 

a great way to lose an arm or two, astronauts "practicing" or peacocking, superbike meets panzer, First ATM, another take on panzer/bike baby, pace car wiping out grandstand, loading cars the hard way (with plank floor and metal rollers. good for pushing 3k on), nice close up of fireball's car, wingfoot express, 20th, 27 millionth fords, Homelite towing Offenhauser?, 100yrs of stude, springfield mass fleet, DIY V-8 dealer prop

 

tire wear test, display gas pumps, navigation unit, mud fun

 

True that !!!!!

 

Art/inspiration. what car is the emblem off of?

 

Jack Smith poses next to his #47 1962 Catalina.

 

Fireball Roberts shows off a new race car for 1963.





Tony Nancy on the right

 

Jerry Ruth

 

1951

 

Before I take you out to the black tie formal, you must wash my car in your evening dress

 

Before the ban on dual quads in early/mid 1957. I believe the 1957 NASCAR season actually started in late 1956 like it did in prior years. You can see the extra ridge on the outer ledge of the top which was exclusive to the Ford. You can also see the spot on the Purolator decal where the part number went is also cut off, also something the Fords did.

 

Amen! I have been thinking the same thing looking at these pictures. I taught history for 30 years and when discussing the Great Depression I often reference a book entitled, "The Old Days Were Really Rotten" These photos prove the point. That all thanks goes out to those posting these photos.

 

That kid got a hold of his dads electrical conduit hole punch again..

 

"Bert Hardy photographed Sugar Ray Robinson in Paris before his fight against British middleweight Randolph Turpin."

 

Rootie, I think you are likely correct about this being a Peters car. I'm not real good at blowing up photos and then reading text but it looks to me like the passenger car in the photo has 1947 Florida plates. If so, that makes sense as I believe Fred Peters had a Florida residence. Also, in 1947, Joie Chitwood drove the Peters big car in the East and also in some Midwestern events.

 

This is Jerry Hoyt's Pat Clancy ride for the 1951 500. It's a beautiful photo but Hoyt missed the show. Hoyt had been drafted into the Army at the time but managed to wrangle some kind of leave that allowed him to try to make the field at Indianapolis.