VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Duesenberg aero engine

 

'56 Olds Golden Rocket

 

1954 salt flats

 

Man painting a car top, San Antonio 1939

 

That's quite a scene. The mountains for a backdrop. Packard on the right and other cars and the ladies all dressed up walking along. Different time and culture for sure.

 

Picasso's Hispano Suiza

Here the artist and his son Paul is pictured with his 1930 Hispano-Suiza type H6B with coachwork by Henri Binder on the Cote d’Azur in 1953.

Quote from Picasso's biographer John Richardson: "Here was a man mad about cars, yet when he purchased his top-of-the-range (1930) Hispano Suiza he decided that driving it would be bad for his hands and so he had to employ a chauffer."

 

Elkhart Lake

 

ex-army '41 to become Milthorpe Spl. '48,

and eventually John O'Niell's ' first Hot Rod type vehicle in Australia '
(Custom Rodder, Autumn 1968)

 

Once apon a time.....

 

"We warned you!"

 

LOL that little boy squatting down could be me. I was fascinated by "Snakes"

 

That's how I remember big trucks creeping up a steep grade in the middle of summer.

 

Hopefully it was a 6 cyl. all door.

 

Creede Colorado 1940