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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, if it has to be 25 years old then this one just qualifies:


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I bought a house in 1986 just down the street from my father which was where I was storing my car. I got a couple of buddies to help me push it down the lane about a block to my new house. Technically the picture doesn't turn 25 until November but I thought I could stretch it a little.

Here is a 1955 Canadian custom. This was my fathers boss at the mattress factory. They had gone to Lac Du Bonnet fishing one summer day in 1961:

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Notice how the wheel centers are darker than the wheel outers, this should give a clue as to what colour the car was.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think even in '55, Canadian Customs would have had turn signals and not semaphores.

Another mystery. Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

here you can see some old pics

http://www.mundoescarabajo.com.ar/fotos/Fotos%20pe...thumb.html

This Oval is from a friend, It was own new by his granfather in the Argenitna´s patagonia and my friend still own it.

Also you can see an old movie taken by his grandfather over an icy lake on circa 1958

you can download from this link on my site.

http://www.mundoescarabajo.com.ar/download/berni1.wmv

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:44 pm    Post subject: Are these? Reply with quote

Are these european cars only?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:12 pm    Post subject: 60's surfin Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Euro? The surfin one looks like an Aussie RHD.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They're whatever cool old photos you want to post.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool wheel ramps.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:52 am    Post subject: Accident on Little Railway!! Reply with quote

Thanks to Everett for loading a photo from August 1967 of an accident on the 15in gauge Romney Hythe&Dymchurch Railway.The locomotive No;5 Hercules (4-8-2)driver Jim Brodie was knocked out on a sheep bridge,hence why the train didn't stop in the terminus station at Hythe Kent.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That little bitty train looks like something from a carnival.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That itty bitty train was first started by two well known racing drivers of the 1920's-Count Louis Zborowski and Capt.Howey.......
Zborowski being famous for racing Chitty Bang car's,later written about by Ian Fleming-thus becoming the film Chitty Chitty Ban Bang.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's another cool vintage oval photo from Pogel.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The story behind this:
Grandfathers flight was delayed in Chicago and he did not want to wait,seen this bug for sale,bought it and drove it home instead of waiting.
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