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Here is a unique treat, a late night steam train ride on tracks running parallel to the North San Fernando Road, in Los Angeles County that at the time was a part of California Highway 99. It is stock Hollywood footage shot from a train car pulled by a 2-8-0 steam locomotive, and lit by movie studio klieg lights…
Today’s feature is a re-run of a post published here on Oct 2, 2014, with the hope of finding more information about the vehicles in the images, and if any of them have survived. Charles Hayer reported the following information. “My father and his friends built the car in the lead image in 1934 and…
Updated with Video: By Melanie Stevens: Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance®, is honored to present one of the greatest American classic cars ever offered for public sale (Estimate: In Excess of $10,000,000) “This incredible car embodies everything that is exciting about an automotive masterpiece: beauty, rarity, provenance,…
Today’s feature image contains an odd pairing of pre-war automobiles in 1939. The car on the left is a 1931 Cadillac sports phaeton fitted with spun bright metal wheel discs. On the right is an SS 100 Jaguar sports car. The Cadillac’s curved bar and badge between the center of the headlights that is missing,…
We have temporarily run out of photos for the “Parking Lot Series” at this point so for today’s feature a series of three images of parked cars is taking its place. All of the pictures were shot on the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The lead image dated June 6, 1961, is a view of the…
Today’s lead image contains a view of filling station attendant A.I. Norrell and a gentleman posing at a modern Shell facility located in San Diego, California. The photo taken for the Shell Oil Co. dated 1933 promoted “Green Streak,” an inexpensive blend of gasoline selling for 14 9/10ths cents a gallon introduced during one of the…
Number One-Hundred and Sixty-Three of the Kodachrome Car Photo Series begins this week with an image of a couple posing with a Lincoln convertible sporting a very patriotic paint scheme. It appears that this land yacht was initially a red car with the blue and white added to it and finished off with the stars. Could this…
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