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Showing posts with label women. Show all posts

Showing posts with label women. Show all posts

Saturday, April 04, 2026

to publicize the newly established Lincoln Highway, the YMCA of Sacramento sponsored Amanda Preuss and a 1916 Olds Roadster in her drive from San Fran to Times Square in Aug, 1916

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=26343954718607057&set=pcb.10162633132387481

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Jimmy's Aunt Lurleen deserves recognition for being the only person in Pecos County history to treat a transmission like a suggestion rather than a mechanical necessity.

Lurleen owned a 1961 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88, which was a magnificent automobile in every sense except for the way she operated it. she dro...

Friday, March 20, 2026

you might not recall the name Suzi Quatro, but in the 70s, she was a significant pop culture character... both in rock music, and acting on Happy Days as Leather Tuscadero, the younger sister of Pinky Tuscadero, an old flame of Fonzie's

She was born in Detroit, and opened for Alice Cooper in Chicago in the winter of 75, and was on Happy Days in 7 episodes. She had a famous d...

Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Coolest thing I heard of lately, a crossing guard put her thoughts to paper, and made 14k a month from that venture

Christine Tyler Hill turned her morning shift into a feel-good and lucrative venture with a subscription base, launching a mail delivered ne...

Sunday, February 15, 2026

you will enjoy this old woman sitting in a muscle car, talking trash about electric cars (it's a staged and scripted moment by the way) but I can't find a version of the video I can embed here, so, if you have Facebook, enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3431318220364840

Saturday, February 14, 2026

wears a great dress, enjoys hanging out for a photoshoot with a great ol truck? That's marriage material boys. You better find her before I do, I'll charm the hell out of her

reminder that Daily Timewaster is awesome, I check it every day. I wish I'd been in college / university in my 20s instead of the joi...

Sunday, February 01, 2026

meanwhile, over in vintage race car photos.... is this gem. Marjorie Eccles relaxing at Brooklands with a quick smoke and a couple of lines of knitting while a mechanic works on her supercharged Rapier Special.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/59/

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Luella Bates, the first female truck driver to receive a New York driver's license.

Bates was the first of six female employees of the Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. chosen as test and demonstration drivers, and worked from 1918 ...

the Kaiser Darrin prototype was first unveiled at the Los Angeles Motorama in 1952, just two months before the Corvette.

Automotive stylist Howard “Dutch” Darrin took it upon himself to create the fiberglass-bodied roadster himself, proof of concept for the ind...

Thursday, January 08, 2026

the right way to emphasis that your car seats are luxurious, in your advertising

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/330/

Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Mrs. Minnie M. Blandin, 74, who at the turn of the century was president of of the Racine Mfg Company that made bodies for 32 makes of 'horseless buggies,' sitting in a 1904 Franklin that ran the San Francisco to New York in 33 days in 1904. (phoot from Nov 1937

Between 1902 and 1925 Racine supplied bodies to Auburn, Buick, Case, Cole, Elgin, E.M.F., Kissel, Lozier, Mitchell, Mitchell-Lewis, Nash, Ov...

Monday, January 05, 2026

Loretta Young overlooking Boulder Canyon (Lake Mead) in 1931. I wonder if Cashman's Garage benefitted from her posing with their spare tire cover ad?

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/465/ https://vintagelasvegas.com/post/176107174844/lor...

Jayne Mansfield gets a helicopter ride to Rotterdam, October '57. She spoke 5 languages and had an IQ around 160

https://www.tumblr.com/coolthingsguyslike https://picryl.com/media/jayne-mansfield-vertrekt-per-helicopter-naar-rotterdam-1c7072

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

do you remember the wheatfield in Brooklyn I posted about in August? Ethan Hawke is making a movie about it

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 ...

Sunday, December 28, 2025

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

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

What a cool thing to pass down to your kids and grand kids.... what you did, what you were a part of, the work you did to help the cause of freedom

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10226027847189833&set=pcb.10161560068907728 grandmothers I’d card when she worked for Boeing. When ...

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Ellie the model T girl! There is hope for the future of model t's when people this young are enthusiastically experiencing driving T speedsters. Damn shame it's as expensive to make one as it is to buy a weatherproof commuter with AC, air bags, and anti lock brakes

At 14 she learned to drive a Model T, and got a chassis and motor for her own at 15. She worked to get the car running and built a racer bod...

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya was a Soviet tank driver and mechanic after her husband was killed fighting in 1941 She sold her possessions to donate a tank for the war effort, and requested that she be allowed to drive it.

In 1925, she married a calvary school cadet, Ilya Fedotovich Ryadnenko. The pair adopted the name Oktyabrskaya—”October,” an allusion to the...

Who knew they still made wicker baskets?

https://velos-mont-valerien.over-blog.com/article-kelly-brook-65608840.html

Sunday, December 07, 2025

before and after, same car

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=26300477402875130&set=pcb.2038368243670944 Yes, I see the steering wheel is different, but if you lo...

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