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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Here Comes Tomorrow - 1948
1947-8 Studebaker Starlight CoupeA thoroughly modern postwar girl in a stylish ride, with Dad back in the turret, enjoying the view. Design was apparently tweaked in secret late-night sessions in Virgil Exner's basement while his associates in Raymond Loewy's South Bend studio worked on the official proposal - Studebaker Engineering VP Roy Cole's attempt to maneuver the flamboyant and expensive Frenchman out of the picture. 1948 DavisOne...
Riverside Special c.1939
Bankrolled by Hank O'Day, owner of a Charleston, Illinois tavern that featured an open-secret gambling room with slots just up the stairs. From Bob Lawrence's Vintage Auto Racing Web Ring, "O’Day had owned other big cars before he commissioned Louis 'Curley' Wetteroth, a noted racing car chassis builder in Southern California, to build a new 270 cubic inch Offenhauser powered big car over the winter of 1937 and 1938. The creation was white, trimmed...
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Dornier Do-X Flugschiff 1929
The largest aircraft of its day, the Dornier Do-X Flugschiff (flying ship) was powered by twelve Curtiss Conqueror V12s mounted back to back on a small auxiliary wing above a 157' X 31' main wing. Built to test the market for a transatlantic luxury liner of the sky, the triple decker's passenger accommodations included sleeping quarters, writing rooms, wet bar, lounge, kitchen and 60 foot dining salon. Cockpit, navigation center, engine control and...
Erma Moving Right Along
Subject steadies her '41 Chevy against prevailing crosswinds on a lonely stretch of highway somewhere in New Mexi...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tacoma Motorcycle Club 1938
Founded in 1926, Washington State's Tacoma Motocycle Club is still going strong. I believe these shots of prewar Harleys and Indians in action were taken in 1938, the date on the Bob Knox Memorial Day Trophy....
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Happy Journey
1962 promotional film of Czech racing driver Jaroslav Pavelka tossing a Tatra 603 around over field and stream, town and hillside, accompanied by a party official in line for new wheels and his lovely daughter. The wave of shock and awe as the thing roars past means its pilot can do pretty much whatever he wants, blowing by lesser vehicles on the highway at twice their speed, endangering motorcycles and horse carts, old ladies and bikes as he fishtails through the crooked narrow cobblestone streets of the old city, blasting up into snowy elevations...
Elmer's Trip to California 1921
Nebraska farmer Elmer J. Sweet treks to Southern California by Model T to visit his sister and 'wonderful pal' Jane and family, accompanied by one L.E. Cruise.&nb...
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