Vintage auto related photos

Started by JWC, May 17, 2009, 06:46:25 PM

JWC

I've been visiting a website for the local university library.   A local paper donated thousands of negatives and the school is scanning them and posting them.  I've posted some at a Volkswagen website....a thread based on old pics with VW's as the subject or in the background.

Here are some (VW related and not) that I thought some here may find interesting.















I'm still trying to decide what kind of van is behind this politician.  It wasn't something I expected to see in NC in 1964.




JWC

This one kinda scares me.  It is dated 1966, I was nine years old at the time.  This is the sign that welcomed you to my hometown...not car related, but DAMN!  Well, it was a sign beside the road leading into town...so kinda car related.



This was a black library in 1966, George Carver Library.



More car related:



1967 NC highway patrol car and plane



New 1967 Mustang displayed in a department store







2o6

Those Mustangs and Camaros look so........average. We today think of them as glamor vehicles, but they look like regular coupes. Also, the Klan welcoming looks really creepy/scary.


Great post.

Onslaught

I don't recall seeing any Klan signs when I was a kid. But the Confederate Battle flags flew all over the place back then. I never even thought about it back then at all.

cawimmer430

Very interesting photographs. Post more, please! :cheers:


Those were the days when you could make love to your highschool / college sweetheart in the backseat of a Camaro!  :thumbsup:

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That's a 1953-61 Goliath Express.  Goliath was a subsidiary of Borgward, the German manufacturer which folded in 1965.

You're right, what's that doing in North Carolina in 1966?


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93JC

Goliaths were sold in the United States.

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I like how all of the hubcaps are missing from the Camaros so people wouldn't steal them.
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Great post! I think I'll have the one with the camaros printed!  :clap:
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JWC



Same dealer as the Camaro lineup



Again not auto related, but the USAF sent a rocket to display at the local college  (Is that a Bell X aircraft in the back?)





Before video arcades, you had to settle for car racing...slot cars.  I remember these tracks.  You could build and race your own car.


What I believe is a Renault



Olds dealer...1964 I think



Zip Mart   Pineapple Sundae, 24 cents...get'em while you can.




JWC

I didn't notice the "Sip a Zippy" sign above the door of the Zip Mart until now.   I guess ice boxes have always looked the same.

I wondered if anyone would notice the missing hub caps on the Camaros.  I also thought someone would mention the engine in the old hot rod heading to the World's Fair.

93JC

Quote from: JWC on May 18, 2009, 04:00:09 PM
I also thought someone would mention the engine in the old hot rod heading to the World's Fair.

:huh:

Flathead Ford?

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JWC

My grandfather used to buy and rebuild these old Dauphines.  This wreck is dated August, 1960.



How would you have like to have a miniature Corvette when you were a kid.  This is dated October, 1959.



I actually worked for this man's sons.  This is Billy Brown.  The car is a prize to be given away at his dealership, dated April 1956.



The caption on the photo below described it as Officer Lilley showing a "souped" up Ford truck with dual carburetors that led police on a high speed chase.  Dated Oct, 1955.


El Barto

Quote from: JWC on May 18, 2009, 03:56:50 PM
Again not auto related, but the USAF sent a rocket to display at the local college  (Is that a Bell X aircraft in the back?)




It looks like a North American X-15.

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JWC

cops

Moonshine still  1955



1964



Roadside safety inspection  1962



Highway patrol's new radios  1953



And just for kicks....students at local college protesting the Vietnam War.  Only they want to "step up" the bombings to save American lives.  I think this was dated early 1966.




Colin

That Renault is actually a Simca 1000 (Mille).

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hotrodalex

Quote from: JWC on May 18, 2009, 04:00:09 PM
I didn't notice the "Sip a Zippy" sign above the door of the Zip Mart until now.   I guess ice boxes have always looked the same.

I wondered if anyone would notice the missing hub caps on the Camaros.  I also thought someone would mention the engine in the old hot rod heading to the World's Fair.

I noticed both but didn't say anything.

Sweet pics by the way. :ohyeah:

JWC

Love the Holden dealership.  I notice a VW on the line. :lol:

I going through some photos now of the local car wrecks that happened back in the fifties and sixties.


Onslaught

Quote from: JWC on May 19, 2009, 07:10:56 PM
Love the Holden dealership.  I notice a VW on the line. :lol:

I going through some photos now of the local car wrecks that happened back in the fifties and sixties.


Those cars are full of lead after that!

FoMoJo

Quote from: JWC on May 18, 2009, 04:00:09 PM
I didn't notice the "Sip a Zippy" sign above the door of the Zip Mart until now.   I guess ice boxes have always looked the same.

I wondered if anyone would notice the missing hub caps on the Camaros.  I also thought someone would mention the engine in the old hot rod heading to the World's Fair.
Looks like an old '33 Ford sedan with the hood removed.  The V8 flathead was the hotrodder's engine of choice before the small-block Chevy came along in '55.  It doesn't really look like much has been done to that one to hotrod it.  My brother had a '51 Chevy with the hood removed that he claimed was a hotrod.  It was just a car with the hood removed.

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The lack of progress in ice box design is worrying.

Thanks for the photos, John.  This is some really cool stuff.
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2. 1995 Saturn SL2 5-speed, 126,500 miles. 5,000 miles in two and a half months. That works out to 24,000 miles per year if I can keep up the pace.

Quote from: CJ on April 06, 2010, 10:48:54 PM
I don't care about all that shit.  I'll be going to college to get an education at a cost to my parents.  I'm not going to fool around.
Quote from: MrH on January 14, 2011, 01:13:53 PM
She'll hate diesel passenger cars, all things Ford, and fiat currency.  They will masturbate to old interviews of Ayn Rand an youtube together.
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Quote from: FoMoJo on May 20, 2009, 08:56:29 AM
My brother had a '51 Chevy with the hood removed that he claimed was a hotrod.  It was just a car with the hood removed.

:lol:

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Quote from: Raza  link=topic=18686.msg1064960#msg1064960 date=1242871597
The lack of progress in ice box design is worrying.


And the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer in the same picture.

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Quote from: JWC on May 18, 2009, 03:56:50 PM
What I believe is a Renault



That's a Simca 1000. I wonder how on earth it made its way to the USA? 
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What was a saddlery business changed somewhat over the years:

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