Thursday, January 01, 2026

Poof, and just like that 2025 is gone, and it's January 2026. Happy New Year to you all

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Free digital sample issue of Vintage Trailer magazine

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https://vintagecampertrailers.com/free-sample-issue-of-the-vct-magazine/

I am glad to find and share the rare stories of people that were lucky enough to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right resources, and the good idea on how to make it all become a money maker... like Kern Schumacher in 1956, Oakland, Ca

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Kern Schumacher was a young nineteen-year-old man who happened upon a great business opportunity in Oakland, California, in 1956.  The lower...

impressive display, well of course. If it wasn't, the image wouldn't have been made

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/561/

I haven't seen a new photo of Aloha Wanderwell in years

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/549/

Made between 1926 and 28, in France. The builder is Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud.

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/563

A Straker Squire Motor Lorry pictured at St. James's Gate, c1918. Likely, the 1st Guiness cargo truck, each barrel held 104 gallons

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Interesting brushed hanging from the hub caps https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/rpsi-collection/52/504-guinness-grain-van https://www.matic...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

the (Wehrman) Machine Shop Special... what a cool name for a custom hand built race car. It looks a lot like the Wisconsin Special in miniature

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/544/

Goodrichs test trucks, note the one on the left has a couple BIG tires strapped down

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/543/

interesting innovation, using flip down steps instead of a ladder

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/542/
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Springfield Mass in the 1950’s and the swill wagon was still horse drawn. Pig farmers picked up the swill from each house twice a week and fed it to the pigs in Chicopee.

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As the neighborhood where the farm was started to build out, people complained about the smell.  Thus the farmer converted over to a dump.  ...

a 1929 Chrysler 77 with Wood Lites

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/535/
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intriguing billboards go back a long way

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Yellowstone once used this horse drawn coach as a tour bus

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https://www.geyserbob.com/yellowstone-park-transportation-c https://www.ebay.com/itm/126324936737 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=12216...
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National Park Service windshield stickers

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In the 1920s and 1930s the “must have” souvenirs weren’t created to be collected at all. National Park Service windshield stickers served a ...

a Stutz with the unusual accessory headlight that mounted under the radiator cap

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interesting huge sticker on the passenger side of the windshield, but I can't make it out completely, something about .... Permit, state...
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The end of WW2, was a situation that the military had no idea how to deal with... how to demobilize the troops, the Army had 8M men, the Navy had 3Million, and the railroads needed employees back on the job (one of my few long form reading posts if you're interested)

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When WW2 ended the Army analyzed its qualifications for discharges based on the labor needs in industrial areas, such the railroads.   (afte...
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the "armless" driver Bill Baldwin and his 1926 Velie Roadster, which he drove across the United States in 1927

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The Velie company was founded by a grandson of John Deere https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/p...
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when it comes to bridges, what is more unusual and rare, then a cast iron private one, over a public street, in a major city? Oh, and it's got a 3 car garage. Except no one wants to live there, everyone only wants to flip it

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The 118-year-old bridge, which picturesquely hovers above a cobblestone street that  was a private access lane to the horse stables of wealt...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Peter DePaolo, winner of the 1925 Indy 500, (nephew of Ralph DePalma, winner of the 1915 Indy 500), in the 1925 Duesenberg race winner. Check out the sidewinder centrifugal supercharger (Thank you Steve!)

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/521/ In his obit, it's pointed out that he declare...
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I think this is Barney Pollard's collection

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/520/

I don't think I ever learned about Christie making a tank until now... in 1930 a Christie tank was finally sent to the USSR. Christie failed to supply a turret or detailed blueprints as initially agreed, as a result of which the USSR withheld a sum of $25,000.

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https://x.com/Tank_Archives/status/2003854769002287560
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do you remember the wheatfield in Brooklyn I posted about in August? Ethan Hawke is making a movie about it

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Agnes Denes, a pioneer of ecological and land art known for work on a monumental scale, will be the focus of an upcoming documentary  The ...

a family wanted their tractor restored and a tractor restoring student needed a tractor to restore for the Missouri State Fair but couldn't afford one. It won Grand Champion Restored Tractor at the Missouri State Fair.

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When Kendall Borts was asked to restore a 1970 International 826 Gold Demonstrator tractor, gears started turning — and not only on the ...

China has set a new world speed record by accelerating a 2400 pound test vehicle on a superconducting maglev to 400mph in just two seconds. It looks like the purpose and eventual application will be launching jest from aircraft carriers

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This speed broke the global record for the same type of platform, making it the fastest superconducting electromagnetic maglev testing speed...

a meteorite the size of a Christmas turkey broke up over a small village 60 years ago, the largest meteorite to hit the UK, was on Christmas Eve 1965. A kid found a 3 pound piece of it, and sold it to buy a 10-speed Raleigh racing bike

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When a meteorite the size of a Christmas turkey broke up over a small British village 60 years ago, David Radford was a teenager who had a s...