Vintage shots from days gone by!

Yup, Phoenix AZ, Camelback Mountain in the background.

 

They also test flew many fighters & bombers ----Then ferried them to shipping points for distribution!

 

There is a sleight resemblance!

 

They do prevent one problem, they wont go flat.

 

Exhaust tubing must have been on sale!

 

Can't believe no one else caught this one - they're models!
Nice job, too.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrzykat/5166544665/in/photostream/

 

very well done !!!!

 

so it is! good call. the actor second from right played "perry." he and a buddy drove that buick to california at the end.

 

And mostly Danbury Mints,when new they were around 100 each so that was a expensive diorama.

 

Tri-State Drag Strip Hamilton, Ohio 1978

 

More men at work. Fisherman's Terminal Seattle.

 

Back then you could sit on the hood without denting it.

 

After ww2 vw:s left factory assembly line with wooden tyres.... ...rubber shortage. Dealer or buyer purchase tyres afterwards.

 

Fooled me!!

 

...might be a stretch but to me the two guys on the tires BOTH resemble Jay Leno...?? They're brothers for sure ...maybe twins??

 

not Jay Leno, he was born in 1950, picture from 1959.

 

Perry was also in the three Porky's movies as "Meat"..

 

Another one of the great Indy fashion model photos in the first attached photo. I'm not sure exactly who the driver is but Louis Tomei drove this car in 1941. And the car was an original Miller-Ford but by now had an Offy engine.

The second photo is a great looking midget that I can't identify. And it may be an optical illusion but it almost looks as though the front axle is offset to the left side of the car. Could this be a midget that was raced on clockwise ovals in Australia?

And the last one is a great Pikes Peak action photo of Al Rogers. I'm not sure of the year but Rogers won Pikes Peak four years in a row in the late 1940s and gave Louis Unser fits in doing so.

 

Edgewater Drag Strip , Ohio. 1958

 

A couple from the UK

 

Samsel Bros



Slo-Poks



Tri City Motors

 

Note angle of rear exhaust pipe

 

That first Porky's movie is a classic....