coffee and donuts video... this might be the coolest thing you see all day (but watch it at 2x speed setting)

an engine pod of the Graf Zeppelin

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/504/

I don't think I've ever seen a camera car that was new, and not banged up from being on set

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/502/

For some really cool ones from when movies were made in Hollywood, see https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/502/

this must have been a Rolls Royce

https://media.invisioncic.com/r277599/monthly_2023_04/IMG_1026.png.62552fa14682224dbeeb4906432c46e9.png

ever see a car that only had a way for the front passengers to get out of the sun and rain? might be a 1909 Renault

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/632/

I bet this place was full of interesting stuff

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/631/

interesting scooter

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/630

it took 12 years but I finally came across some good photos of the Wagenhals electric postal delivery cart

Steve looked these up way back in 2012, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/09/1913-wagenhals-electric.html

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/626/

interesting crane, by the Badger Body MFG Co

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/624/

Alfred DuPont

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/618/

Leon Baldwin at Old Orchard Beach, 1911. the No.3, is a special 30 hp Stanley steam race car, one of two designed for long-distance events, specifically the Vanderbilt Cup races in 1906. In one of his runs on the beach, Baldwin set a speed record for a mile in 39 seconds, 92.3 mph.

https://www.mainememory.net/record/35460

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/616/

Fancy hubcaps!

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/615/

a radio station mobile broadcast truck!

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/613/

I found that there is a guy out there, the Radio Historian, who is collecting photos of radio station remote location cars

http://www.theradiohistorian.org/remote/vehicles.html

Thank you Chuck and Lisa B for the Christmas card and kachinging my tip jar!

cool documentary on Art Himsl (legend, and winner of the 1969 AMBR) and van painting from 1970 to 73! (skip to 3:25 for the vans)

brakemen needed an out of the weather place to hang out, a place more comfortable than a step or ladder rung. Because there was no room in the cab, on the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company train tenders, they installed 32 Chevy coupes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p1ilti-i4g at minute 26

http://www.trainweb.org/highdesertrails/shlco/Wrecks.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?

fbid=10227460148042628&set=gm.3644541675813744&idorvanity=1613284028939529

http://www.trainweb.org/highdesertrails/shlco/SHLCO5.html

when the snow is deeper than the snowblower can work with, they double up with a dozer to knock down the walls, is what I'm guessing is going on here

 

torque converter 101

 

men that used to hand paint the billboard signs for Shell in the SoCal area

I've appreciated the hand painted signs for a LONG time, and this is the first time I've been able to share a photo of the guys that did the painting! With a cool work truck! 

Interesting rack over the truck bed, with a large open area behind the cab, in front of the Shell sign

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/610/

in the junkyard, getting rubber for the WW2 scrap drive, that's my guess

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/609

someone was NOT satisfied with the typical acetylene headlights... they went for the huge spotlight on the running board option. I might be mistaken, but it looks like it also has the mother in law side seat

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/609/

an early Holsman high wheeler towing a one wheel trailer! (Thank you Steve!) From Santa Monica to New York for the 1939 Worlds Fair

https://www.fayobserver.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2024/03/12/from-the-archives-along-fayettevilles-raeford-road-over-the-years/72884744007

this was how the solid rubber was attached to the rim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fgtF5vB90A

situations like this must have freaked out mom's of Corvette drivers

https://www.fayobserver.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2024/03/12/from-the-archives-along-fayettevilles-raeford-road-over-the-years/72884744007/

interesting onnovation, a tire cleaning patch of chainmail

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/605/

first time I've seen the Purina Chow factory truck! I think it's great they used the checkerboard motif around the edges!

 https://www.gristfromabbottsmill.net/post/the-old-mills-in-northwest-fork-and-seaford-hundreds-sussex-county-delaware

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/603/

https://whitefeatherfarmsohio.com/about/

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156635365230

the Governor of Delaware with his '29 Studebaker President Eight, and license plate #1, on a "Weaver brake tester" that used drive-over plates and liquid gauges to instantly show each wheel's braking power simply by driving the car on at steady speed then jumping on the brake pedal. (thank you CoSC!)

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/602

https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/weaver.htm

CoSC left me this terrific trivia info in the comment section! 

The hierarchy in the way license plates once were allocated reflected late eighteenth century political thought in most states. New York allocated “1” to the governor and “2” to the lieutenant governor. President Franklin Roosevelt got “3”

when they wanted a car to WHOA, they really meant it

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/682

custom pick up box adaptation on a 1927 Buick Standard Sport Roadster.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/681