Vintage shots from days gone by!

This picture of the SAAB reminds me of a funny remark my first wife (Brand "X") made the first time she saw
one of these. She asked me "what kind of car is that?" I told her it was a SAAB. She said "well it looks like
someone should "sob" about that!"

 

Weird things noticed: The brown sedan out front is actually up on blocks. The little orange Studie over on the right side - first one I recollect seeing in that color.

 

Could be staged but I've sprayed paint outdoors without anything before. I wasn't trying for anything perfect, just good nuf.

 

Check out the guy in the pits at 3mins 53-55 secs having a cigarette while his car is worked on. Lots of Hudsons in this race.

 

Just let it go Steffen! You won't win any fights here!!! There is a fine line to stay on track and it can be derailed from time to time but!!!

 

wherever this is they sure got some big ugly bats hangin around LOL!!!

 

Foxbats over in India are that big, no lie, and you don't walk under the tree they are all in either.
If you recall the scene from Bridge on the River Kwai where all the foxbats take off out of the tree after the explosion, they block out the sun like a cloud, and the racket they make is something else.

 

Hope this is "murican enough & early enough...lol

"Driver Harry Grant and his riding mechanic Frank Lee pose in their 1909 Alco (American Locomotive Company) racer at Worcester, Massachusetts' Dead Horse Hill Climb."

 

"A Briggs and Stratton Flyer on the Streets of Boston"... it says.

 

don't worry, the hall monitor will make sure you are all safe

 

This concept really wasn't far off from being something Mercury could have sold.
Story here: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=1954_Mercury_XM-800

 

If the shoe fits.....

 

That's true; it's just that the styling advanced so fast they skipped right over this design and used the next one - the Turnpike Cruiser - as the inspiration for the '57-'59 Mercurys.

 

Where's my damn shoe?

 

Flipped 1949 Dodge Coronet 6-Passenger Club Coupe in 1958 Accident in Taylor, Texas

 

1958 Plymouth Belvedere, or was.

 

1920 Mack Truck

 

James Ward Packard in an early Packard automobile


Henry B. Joy behind the wheel of a 1907 Packard Model S Runnabout


Henry B. Joy was the real brains, vision and "force of nature" behind Packard.

A quote attributed to him was "let's do /something/, even if it's wrong!"

 

Thelma and Louise and Betty and Fran and Jane.

 

Here's a thing I did not know. My understanding was that the Pontiac brand was first introduced by Oakland Motor Car as a lower priced model in 1926. And the following year or so, GM acquired Oakland, dropping that marque, but keeping the Pontiac line.

But there it is: an ad for a "Pontiac" in 1908:

 

NOT the same company as the later GM Pontiac.

 

That's correct. That's the purpose for my post.

 

A set from New England Dragway at Epping




















NED Dragmaster




Roberts



Slider

 

Gordon Collett AAGD, Tulsa 1966. Among his great career accomplishments was being Top Gas Eliminator at the NHRA Winternationals in 1966, 1967, and 1968. The Collecting nickname came from the prize money and trophies.



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