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Updated: more photos added. Mark L. Mooney was an American automobile dealer who owned Chrysler, Packard and Fiat dealerships in Shanghai, China. Not much is known about him at this time, although apparently he was well connected in both the automobile industry and in political circles in the US and China. There is no documentation…
Today’s photo of the Albany Public Market lot in front of the Lyon Block Building on the far-left was taken at some point of World War II years between 1942 to ’45 when fuel was rationed. The automobile closest to the camera appears to be a 1941 Ford convertible, and a close look at the…
The Kodachrome Car Photograph Series begins this week with a circa late-1940s to early-1950s image of a Pep Boys store in an unknown location. The first two vehicles in this scene date back to the pre-World War II days and the pickup truck and dark-colored sedan in the background were manufactured in the postwar days. The photo…
Today’s feature image is an interesting view of a 1930 Cadillac V-16 with custom or semi-custom coachwork wearing Pennsylvania license plate IR16. No information is with the photograph and a google search for the picture online resulted in not learning more about it. Using the clues available in the shot it is possible that a…
Based on the aerodynamic advances incorporated into airplane design in the 1920s and early-1930s wealthy Chicago resident Lyman Voelpel commissioned the Hill Auto Body Metal Company of Cincinnati to construct his “Arrow Plane” in 1932. The unique coachwork was built on a 1932 Ford Model “B” chassis with the four-cylinder powerplant turned around and mounted in…
Today’s featured photo was taken in Blue Point, New York, which is located between Bayport and Patchogue on the south central side of Long Island. Five 1929 to ’31 Chevrolet cars and a truck are lined up on the north side of the Montauk Highway east of Bell Avenue. The photo source states that all of these…
The Hatch Chevrolet Co. was located in Stockton, California, and today’s lead image and the expandable version of it (above) show a portion of the Company’s “OK” Used Car sales operation. This establishment was located on a street or avenue in the City between two other used car sales lots visible in the photos below. The…
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