Click for full image Car parked in front of a large lodge. Appears 1920s.
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Changing the Tire, 1940s.
Click for entire image Changing a tire on a snowy mountain road. Appears 1940s.
Studebaker Municipal Vehicles, 1962.
The 1962 Studebaker Lark had all sorts of features that a city would want in a fleet vehicle: the compact Lark was redesigned for 1962, with a 5″ longer frame and a 109″ wheelbase, and their “police-built” engines came in 112 and 225HP versions on ‘regular’ gasoline. Studebakers had been operating as police cars for […]
Car Parked In The Snow, 1930s
Car parked in the snow, appears 1930s.
Street View, 1950s
Unknown location.
Red Crown Pump Shield, 1940s
Young girl standing on a repurposed “Red Crown Gasoline” sign. The sign is being used as a shield to prevent the ground around the pump from becoming too wet or compressed. Dated by lab “Oct 23 1945”.
Travelling By Corvair
America’s only car with an airplane-type horizontal engine! America’s only car with an independent suspension at all 4 wheels! America’s only car with an air-cooled aluminum engine! This ad for Chevrolet’s Corvair from 1959 shows just how advanced the little car was — largely inspired by the Volkswagen, the Corvair put an ample air-cooled engine […]
Changing A Model T Tube
What we see here is the hindquarters of a mid-1920s Model T Sedan. The first clue is the license plate, issued in 1927, but the dented-up body would indicate that the car isn’t right off the showroom floor. Aside from the year, it’s pretty clearly the Ford T Sedan: the fabric top, the under-scooping back […]
4H IH Scout
The float aside, that bright red truck is the focus here (also seen here, and here) The owner of this truck was a forward thinker: the shiny, new truck seen here was from the first year International Harvester made the Scout, its answer to the Jeep. At the time, tractor manufacturers weren’t specifically tractor manufacturers: […]
18 Miles To Norfolk
We’re going to Norfolk! My guess is that these sailors were on the way to Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia, ready to work on the steel-clad steamships that dominated the US Navy in the earliest parts of the 20th century. Given the style of car and the uniforms, Norfolk was probably a short stop: World […]