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Vintage Photos Archive
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Vintage Photo: A DC-3 Comes To Innsbruck In 1952 – She’s Still Flying Today
Posted on November 25, 2022 | 15 CommentsThis looks familiar: The airport in Innsbruck the way it was back in the 1950s, right down to the DC-3. This photo is from 1952, when the planes were still […] -
Vintage Car Carrier: International Hauling Drag Racers
Posted on November 20, 2022 | 12 CommentsA random shot from about 1966 or so, of an older “Emeryville” International COE and a 1950s MHS trailer hauling the Rocky Mtn. Drag Team. -
CC Gallery: The Editorial Art of Doug Wright
Posted on November 19, 2022 | 24 CommentsWhen I was very young our city paper had editorial cartoons by several artists. 5 year old boys don’t have much of a feel for politics or social commentary, but […] -
Vintage Postcard: Greetings From 1972
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Vintage Photo: Ward LaFrance M1A1 Heavy Wrecker And Driver – The WW2 Equivalent Of Calling AAA
Posted on November 17, 2022 | 20 CommentsThese big and gnarly Ward LaFrance “Heavy Wrecking Trucks” were built during WW2 to provide a variety of services out in the field, and not just towing broken down Sherman […] -
Vintage Postcard: “Everybody Drives A Used Car” – I’d Like To Drive Some Of These
Posted on November 14, 2022 | 16 CommentsUmm; there’s some sweet cars in this shot, at the L.F. Jacod & Co. Chrysler-Plymouth Used Car Lot. Can you identify them? -
Vintage PR Shot: Miss America 1950 And Her New Bathtub Nash
Posted on November 13, 2022 | 19 CommentsWell, I’m not so sure it was actually “her” new Nash; maybe just the official car she got driven around on on this publicity tour? More likely so. I doubt […] -
Vintage Post Card: 1952 MG YB With de Havilland Comet – Why Make Your Out Of Date Car Look Even Older?
Posted on November 6, 2022 | 23 CommentsI’ve seen a few of these type of renderings from the UK in this era, with frumpy cars that look to be relics from the 1930s posed in front of […] -
Vintage Truck: Hay Hauling International
Posted on November 6, 2022 | 11 CommentsI love old truck photos, but they’re always better when there’s a driver in the shot too. This guy has quite a pose too; somewhere between proud and bored. Proud […] -
Vintage PR Shot: 1948 Gatso Aero-Coupe (Netherlands) – Got Aero Conditioning?
Posted on November 4, 2022 | 9 CommentsMaus Gatsonides was a Dutch rally driver and inventor. In 1948, he cobbled up this, initially called the Gatford, since it was Fprd-based. But Ford objected, either because it sounded […] -
Vintage PR Shot: 1958 Toyopet Crown – It Bombed In America, But The New Crown Is Back For Another Shot
Posted on October 27, 2022 | 23 CommentsI ran into this shot by accident, but it reminds me that although the Crown bombed out here twice before, Toyota is bringing it back again, right now. Will the […] -
Vintage Snapshot: The New ’55 Buicks Are Coming
Posted on October 22, 2022 | 21 CommentsDon’t know the location, and it looks to have been colorized, but it’s a nice shot, especially as there’s what looks like to be a little Fiat Topolino just behind […] -
Vintage PR Photo: 1958 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud – A Six For The Price Of Two V8s
Posted on October 22, 2022 | 63 CommentsHere’s a somewhat unexpected PR shot of an American suburban family about to go off for a ride in their new R-R Silver Cloud. Dad must have been doing what […] -
Vintage PR Shot: 1957 Mercury Ambulance: The Only Hardtop Ambulance?
Posted on October 15, 2022 | 32 CommentsIf you were unlucky enough to have to ride in a ’57 Mercury ambulance, at least you rode in style, as this one one of the very few wagons that […] -
Vintage Postcard: 1923(?) Lancia Lambda Limousine Coupe Weyman – Way Ahead Of Its Time With Unibody, IFS, 4-Wheel Brakes And A SOHC V4
Posted on October 13, 2022 | 16 CommentsIt looks like a typical 1920s town car that’s been chopped and channeled; look how low that driver is sitting, like in a sports car. We’ve sung the high praises […]