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Really cool, but strange collection...nothing seems to tie it together as "family pics". Still cool though
Thanks for sharing - great that so many pics have been saved - but, many more lost along the way - ad one from my wife's family
Thanks, cool old photos. If this is an invite. Here's a few of my family. I've never shared them anywhere but here on the HAMB. First is my grandparents, and their T, Then my mom and dad with their 49. My Mom with our 57 Chevy. Also one of me, and my first car {1957}. pedal powered. Ron.....
Cool stuff I would like to share some of my families history- My Great Uncle Don Weyl in car crewed for Sam Car A.A.A. Big Car (Indy Car) Uncle Don was a clown- My maternal grandparents, Jim (a body/paintman) and Anna Brazie. I wish I could tell you the Ford had a Full house Flathead, or a hot 303 Olds. But other than the spotlight it was a bone stock 36 Ford. My father's families 1958 trip to Michigan and Ohio Left to right My Grandfather Robert Nelson Palmer (a seven grade school teacher and jack of all trades), My Aunt Ruth, My Father Willard Palmer, and my Aunt Mary Lou I still own the Scotch Cooler in this photo- You may have noticed my grandfathers first names Robert, and James. I was named for both of them Robert James Palmer a fact I am very proud of! My dad Willard building racecars!
Old pictures are so cool. It is a real shame that there will be no historic photographs from this period for folks to look at 50 or so years from now. The current batch of digital files will ultimately disappear as the format they are stored on gets obsoleted. Imagine if you ran across a “floppy disc “ of photos even now how would you be able to see em?? I was at my parents house the other day and grabbed these of my grandpas trucks and my mom who is currently 80 years old...pretty cool.....
I don't know any of the people in the old pics, but I'd swear the last pic of the blue '32 is taken at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds (Dan Patch Ave.?).
That first photo of the '35 roadster pick-up, looks like it was in Australia? I think that model was only made here. All neat photos from everyone too!
Today I received an email from a friend/neighbor from many years ago. She knew I liked cars and her son had this framed for her for Christmas. It is of her dad and his friend. I'm guessing a Chevy Roadster....My dad wasn't that cool, he had a 38 Ford four door and later a 40 Ford. I whined to him that he should have kept it for me He also said that it had too much power for the chassis. Dad got a new 49 Nash so the picture of the 40 was prior to that. Yeah, that's me.
Lucky to have a few of my pop's - where I got the 30wt in my veins from. Sadly he passed early in his 50's a year after I was born and my grandmother in spite or being just pissed off as she was at his shop ownership - threw a lot of stuff away - as my uncles say. The shop didn't last much longer as my uncle got going with the 195A/H roadster. His the short - I could say Italian guy - but hell they were all Italian's !
Here's a few.----MY MOM who started it all. View attachment 4957202 View attachment 4957205 View attachment 4957205
they are photos of members of their family. Not sure what’s hard to tie together? I guess if you didn’t know where the photos came from, which the article does tell us, they would just be photos of old cars and people.
Hey thanks for posting these, love the car show with some very cool rides, and great glimps into the past. AndyD
Thanks for sharing those @Ryan...a number of them I have shared here and there...truly a great collection from the good ole days... Additional thanks to the others sharing vintage blasts from the past as well...
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