Vintage shots from days gone by!

US112 in Michigan was renamed US12 some time around 1956 iirc.

 

June 27, 1935: Just 16 months after a tiny car made its London debut, the United States trotted out its own unorthodox transport gizmo: a motorized unicycle. The news alert mentions its inventor’s “flaunting laws of balance and engineering,” although perhaps the author meant to say “flouting.” The rider steers “by a secret device that causes the wheel to lean and thereby turn while at the same time allowing the rider to keep an upright balance.” Walter Nilsson, the inventor, also believes that “with the addition of a pneumatic tire, the wheel can make 100 miles an hour.”

 

June 27, 1935: Just 16 months after a tiny car made its London debut, the United States trotted out its own unorthodox transport gizmo: a motorized unicycle. The news alert mentions its inventor’s “flaunting laws of balance and engineering,” although perhaps the author meant to say “flouting.” The rider steers “by a secret device that causes the wheel to lean and thereby turn while at the same time allowing the rider to keep an upright balance.” Walter Nilsson, the inventor, also believes that “with the addition of a pneumatic tire, the wheel can make 100 miles an hour.”

 

Manhattan Bridge
1939

 

Looks like a Stutz

 

I'd really, REALLY like to see one of these do a panic stop!

Mart.

 

parade organized by ugly women because they were no longer getting dates

 

Swi66 have you seen this one yet?

 

im guessing this is a screen shot from american graffitti 2 but anyone know anything about the vette in the pic?

 

i dont know why when i quote the pics dont show back up

 

That's what I thought too, but I couldn't find one with a set of fenders that look like those. Maybe we all just think Stutz because it's a speedster, but other companies offered them too...

 

Didn't McCoy make model airplane engines? Regardless, the little engine on this one doesn't seem big enough to make the advertised speed. But it will blow smoke up her shorts! Gary

 

This is indeed a PWR-4360 and an early C-124 Globemaster, prior to the nose radar. I have the original LIFE mag issue from Aug 27. 1951 and the caption mentions they are unloading the engine for a B-50.

 

I never get tired of this one!

 

Ester Eddie, you da' man!

 

No ,NO You DA' Man !

 

Betty Brosmer, ain't it?

Mart.

 

I don't think it's a Corvette.

 

Topeka 1940. This is the original owner of my my Dad's 40 Mercury. It was blue from the factory. She had it painted yellow. Dad bought this car in 1968 and still owns it.