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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…
Today’s feature image contains a 120 inch outside diameter x 66.0 inch inside diameter x 33.5 inch wide tire and tube produced by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The casing is one of the type which was used on Admiral Byrd’s “Snow Cruiser’s” ill-fated exploration of Antarctic late in 1939. The location where the photo was…
The Kodachrome Car Photograph Series begins this week with an image of three friends in a yellow and white 1950s Ford convertible. If you look closely the driver appears to be holding a car phone handset. Could this be a still shot taken from a period movie? As is the usual practice in this series, we…
The full-sized version of the enlargement in the lead image is a 1955 Detroit News photo that contains a section of the John C. Lodge Expressway (M10) taken on opening day. The picture was taken from the Glendale Avenue bridge looking south at the northbound evening rush hour traffic. This bridge is located 6.2-miles north…
Howard “Dutch” Darrin, was an internationally famed American automobile stylist who also operated his design studio in Paris, France for a time. “Dutch” designed the unique coachwork for the Kasier-Darrin, which was located in Jackson, Michigan. Earlier he signed a post-war contract with the automaker to work as a freelance coachwork design consultant on all of…
This sport exhaust system was designed and constructed last month while preparing the 1967 Volvo 1800s to run at the recent VSCCA Mt Equinox Hillclimb. It will also be used for racing at tracks that require mufflers, and for driving to and returning from competition events. The overall length of the system was recommended by Volvo…
After finding and enlarging this 1920s overhead view of Summer Street located in Boston, Massachusetts, a pair of Boston Fire Department trucks on the way to fight a fire became visible. On the lower side of the image (below) a fireman driving a Christie f.w.d. gasoline-powered steam fire pumper is in the lead and followed by…
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