Vintage shots from days gone by!

I don't like blue cars. I don't like blue cars because I have the worst luck with blue cars. if it weren't for the bad luck, blue would be my favorite color.
And I see this pic and I think damn, I really like that blue car.
Beautiful automobile right there.

 

Same company as the VW hauler ?
Also, what is the mfg of the hauler with the 'look through your knees steering ' ?

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In any of the firetrucks I ever drove, the inside wiper didn't work for diddly...
More to impress the purchasing committee than anything else.

 

Brownwood , Texas , still open

 

Gotta tell ya Rootie - they ain't there for the car!

 

Say hello to President and Mrs. Reagan


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At first, Henry Ford was to use his factories to produce the engines under license from Rolls Royce but Ford balked when he saw that he’d be supplying the engines for American and British planes.

With Ford out of the running, the government sought a suitable industrial outfit to produce the engines and Packard was their choice. Reportedly, Rolls Royce was impressed with Packard’s engineering and production prowess so they agreed and by August of 1941 the first Merlin built by Packard was fired.

These guys were not effing around. We have no idea how they changed the plants and moved the machines but they did and the photos below show it all in great detail.

You’ll see engines in all levels of construction, parts being tested, stuff being inspected, and the big 1,650ci V12s being prepped for their final homes in the noses of aircraft.

Early engines had a single speed supercharger but later engines were equipped with a two speed blower and those were the ones that out performed all others in high altitude situations. Making around 1,400hp at “normal altitude” and still almost 1,300 at high altitude due to the two speed supercharger, you can see right off the bat how their performance would be stout.

 

1965 Cobra ads the last of them




The BIG BROTHER arrives 427 time

 

That one didn't like being called "Mrs. Reagan".

 

I can tell you they are a thing of beauty, and a bit overwhelming the first time you walk up to one.

The first day I worked for my cousin, he walks over to a pair of RR heads and asks me "You think you can handle this?"

I put on my best bullshit face and say "Yup, no problem".

Then he points to a whole wall of RR engines on those heavy metal racks - some in those shipping shells, some naked, some partly dismantled and says "Good, because you won't be running out of work soon."

 

This is why I like history...... I learn something new every day. I never knew Merlin engines were also made in the USA.

 

I know, its amazing isn't it?

And what Packard did was find a way to take what were handcrafted, built one at a time engines in
England, and mass produce them AND keep the quality up. I say that, noting that the Packard brand itself was known for being a largely handcrafted low-production luxury marque. It's been so long no I no longer remember but is was a quantum leap production-wise.

Don't get me wrong - the Allison was a fine motor too & similar in size. But RR had such a superior supercharger and fuel injection system they could do full rollovers, inverted flight - stuff that Allison powered planes wouldn't dare for fear of killing the engine. THAT was something I didn't know.