Dave Gelinas (XP-300) Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 8 hours ago, edinmass said: Well known and published photos........... I had not seen them either. Great photos. Thank you for posting them Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 6 minutes ago, Dave Gelinas (XP-300) said: I had not seen them either. Great photos. Thank you for posting them Matt Me neither! I've never seen them before in either in the original faded 'square shooter' taken with 127 film as Matt showed, or a latter day photoshopped enhancement. Craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 11 hours ago, Matt Harwood said: Mexico City, July 1969. Duesenberg phaeton in a used car lot on Via Reforma. The bike looks to be an early 1960s Suzuki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Here's a better look: 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 A photo posted on a facebook page a couple of hours ago. Captioned 'Dust Bowl refugees 1935'. Any thoughts what the car might be. Something not cheap when it was new I think. Marmon maybe?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dictator27 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 3 hours ago, alsancle said: So, a kid with his HS car? Someone needs to explain how Packard went from this styling to the Bath Tub, almost like they went backwards. What I was driving in the late '60's. I think Packard did themselves a huge diservice when they brought out the bloated whale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 4 hours ago, alsancle said: "Someone needs to explain how Packard went from this styling to the Bath Tub, almost like they went backwards." AJ: The Packard Cormorant, Second Quarter 2021, Number 183, pages 24-29. Titled: From the Clipper to "Free-Flow" Styling: A Synopsis of the Forces and Events that Replaced the Clipper Styling with the 22nd and 23rd Series by yours truly... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Smits Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 4 hours ago, alsancle said: Next time you post something that was on the cover of Hemmings like it was hidden in your personal archive I'm calling you out too! If most of us haven't seen it, it's fair game!! Remember we are on page 348 and I can't remember page 340!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Smits Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 1 hour ago, nzcarnerd said: A photo posted on a facebook page a couple of hours ago. Captioned 'Dust Bowl refugees 1935. Any thoughts what the car might be. Something not cheap when it was new I think. Marmon maybe?? What a great photo. Makes me ashamed to think the kids and I thought we were camping when we jumped into the 40 ft Diesel pusher and went to the Indy 500 every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I didn't mean for it to look like I was passing those off as my own photos. I saved them from someplace with that caption, probably Facebook, and just ran across them while looking at some other photos and figured I'd post them. I wasn't even born when those photos were taken, they're not mine. Sorry for the confusion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 Matt no need to be sorry , it's all good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Smits Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 From my personal collection I think this is my Uncle’s first car. Iowa farm scene 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Smits Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Osceola Iowa Taxi fleet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HK500 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 This just in - The Harrah's Reno Tour ( for old cars ) in 1960, looks like the banquet at Lake Tahoe . Check out the antique-y outfits on the people. And the famous Lincoln collector on the label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 A photo that appears every once in a while, this time on a facebook page. Dated 1899 and comes from the Vancouver, BC, archives. It has a steering wheel and no shafts for horses, but it also doesn't appear to have anything driving the wheels. Maybe it only goes downhill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfudd Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 The rear spokes seem designed for brake drums and/or chain drive sprockets, though the vehicle has neither. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 I recall seeing this picture before. As I recall, there was quite a bit of discussion about the car and its history, including speculation about when the picture was taken (maybe later after the motor and drive mechanism had been removed?). Or maybe it was before the car was running, and that it might have been a promotional photo seeking investors? I don't recall just where the thread about it was? May look for it in a bit? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 It is becoming very hard to find pictures we have not posted 3 times already. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alsancle Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Not a bad looking body as PIII's general go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hook Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 10 hours ago, nzcarnerd said: A photo that appears every once in a while, this time on a facebook page. Dated 1899 and comes from the Vancouver, BC, archives. It has a steering wheel and no shafts for horses, but it also doesn't appear to have anything driving the wheels. Maybe it only goes downhill? Aliens with new form of energy unknown to us humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nzcarnerd Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 15 minutes ago, alsancle said: Saxon. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HK500 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Packards at the used car lot. Behind a chain link fence. High end marketing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HK500 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 And as long as the Packard Clipper theme is going, here's a '47 Custom Super 8 Club sedan. Photo taken in 1947. Grandma bought the car brand new! And still in the family today. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Those fenced-in Packards deserve a better look. The Studebaker to the left is s 1951 Commander Land Cruiser. That 1937 Super Eight club sedan must have been in very good condition for it to be displayed on a front line position as a 14 or 15 year old car, even on that type of used car lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tph479 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tph479 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 1932 Packard 900 semi custom club sedan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Smits Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, alsancle said: It is becoming very hard to find pictures we have not posted 3 times already. Most of mine will be original as I just discovered the box of photos in storage 2 weeks ago and am slowly digitizing them when I have time. Lots of fun. Thank you Walt for the thread. Interesting thought, would this thread have emerged without COVID? Edited June 19, 2021 by Robert G. Smits Spelling (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Smits Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 From an add in my collection. 1915 or 1916 Touring Roadster and four passenger Tourabout 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 In honor of today's holiday: 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted June 19, 2021 Author Share Posted June 19, 2021 3 hours ago, Robert G. Smits said: . Interesting thought, would this thread have emerged without COVID? Probably yes, since I am pro pre WWII era and felt that not many people looking here although they liked that era would make a move to express that interest more vigorously. Timing is everything and the Covid crisis just made me act faster thinking everyone needed a break to just be happy again even for a few heart beats. Words are very important ( ask any author including this one) but people like to see pictures. With no car club meetings, car shows, flea markets, cruise nights etc. this came about ( even if those events were on we still like to look at pictures). Walt 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Thanks Walt, Every day we get to see a new photo that brings us back to some great times, sure miss all the people I got to meet in the past 60 years of the hobby. Bob 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Smits Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 52 minutes ago, 1937hd45 said: Thanks Walt, Every day we get to see a new photo that brings us back to some great times, sure miss all the people I got to meet in the past 60 years of the hobby. Bob I couldn’t have said it better. This forum has become an important part of my retirement. An OOPS photo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthcranbrook Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 1 hour ago, plymouthcranbrook said: The British military bought large numbers of bikes in WW1. This one looks to be a 1915 Triumph, first year that Triumph got a proper gearbox. The year before they had a Sturmey-Archer rear hub set up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Don't know what make this is, but the location resembles the popular spot in Central Park where so many posed photos of cars were taken. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted June 20, 2021 Author Share Posted June 20, 2021 Yes, location is Central Park, looking north . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hddennis Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 12 hours ago, nzcarnerd said: The British military bought large numbers of bikes in WW1. This one looks to be a 1915 Triumph, first year that Triumph got a proper gearbox. The year before they had a Sturmey-Archer rear hub set up. Few years ago a fellow Maxwell owner John Illenye sent me this picture of him, his wife and his amazing 1917 Triumph survivor with original paint and period unit markings. Howard Dennis 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Not pre-WW2 but still kind of vintage, looks like a 1954 plate. With all the Duesenberg enthusiasts looking to reduce stress, I thought this would be a worthwhile contribution. Where is it today? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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