Excellent! Forest Service guy...the pet fox mystery...Okies on the move. It looks like the inside of my mind.
If by "so far on the beach" you mean close to the water, I would guess that more than one car got sucked up by the soft sand and surf so they decided to put up cones for a travel lane. Once that surf starts to undermine a car, it doesn't take long for it to sink in the sand. http://www.flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/182813946/
Thanks Ryan, every time I see pics like this I wonder if I was born a little too late. Doesn't everyone what a little 'foxy' thing at least once in their life? Love the Studie in one of the pics, not another car is a cool as this thing! Cat
There's a thread on here with over 57,000 posts with lots and lots of cars being shown in their natural setting, and Ryan has decided to start another one. Am I missing something - why not just post the pics on the Days Gone By thread? It has to be one of the most successful threads ever, anywhere - getting on for 13 millions views. OK, I know it's his forum (well, and everyone else's too, but he started it (thanks Ryan)) but surely there is something else that could have been the subject.........?
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=17727# This pic is cool for alot of reasons, innocence of the time it was taken. Barebones truck in the background. Kids having fun, not a safety pad in sight. Wipeout? dust youself off go again. I recently gave my granddaughters a low speed ride in the back of my daily driver '69 shortbox Ford pickup to the back 40 acrerage to climb up in my deerstand. And my youngest granddaughter (3 year old) just thought that was the coolest thing and every old truck she sees now is papa's truck, she wants to ride in back. My parents would take us and the neighbor kids to the lake hot summer days after chores and riding in back you were dry of before you got home. While we need to keep our kids safe, some things get lost. Picture didn't copy over from Ryan's original post, but it showed kids on skateboards with the truck in the background.
Ryan started this thread because he could. Just as you or I can start new threads with specific content in mind. I haven't looked at the Vintage shots from days gone by! thread in a year or more. Why? Problem one, that thread has 57,000+ posts Problem two, that thread has 2879 pages. Problem three, that threads content is a free for all.
Love these shots too.. Especially when watching movies that are set in past years. I couldn't imagine seeing '50's and '60's cars daily that are being treated just as they are - transportation. Not some garage jewel or museum piece. The "regular" modes of transportation today are eyesores compared to these.
I have this picture as my screen saver to remind me where I was a couple weeks ago in the same era car.
Here's one of an original photo print I collected and have hanging on my wall. Not really future hot rod or custom material though. I couldn't get a good scan of it for some reason but the actual photo is very nice and crisp. Something about the composition of it with the 2 men and just the generic word "gasoline" written on the side of the tank - and of course being a Studebaker truck.
WOW !! All great but #18 on Fremont St.(glitter gulch) was a real flashback for this "kid". We cruised it on the weekends to find out where the action was,checking out the chicks, parties, fast out of town cars. It was a natural as there was a circle park at M ain st . just in front of the Union Pacific depot. Now occupied by the Union Plaza. They put a canopy over the whole damn street , shut off traffic and screwed up big time !!
Thanks for the great photos. Now I've got two new screen shots. Cars on the beach and two hot rods going at it!
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