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Today’s lead image contains a tastefully executed mild 1950s “California Custom” convertible. The only visible modifications are the addition of a custom grille, windshield-mounted spotlight, different hubcaps and the plastic center of the hood badge has been omitted. It may have been lowered all around, although it at least appears to have a forward rake….
We are back in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area once again today with a set of racing-related images taken by photographer Roman B.J. Kwasniewski in 1920 next to a park. The Model “T” Ford-based specials apparently were constructed by the young men sitting in them and are fitted with attractive speedster bodies and accessories built by…
The world famous “Sunset Strip” is a one and a half-mile section of Sunset Boulevard located in West Hollywood, California. The roadway extends west from the border of West Hollywood and Los Angeles to Beverly Hills. Sunset Boulevard is a twenty-two-mile-long thoroughfare that travels west from the Little Armenia neighborhood located near the Hollywood Palladium…
Today’s post-World War II feature images taken in New London and Ridgefield, Connecticut contain street views in each community. The lead image and the expandable version of it (below) is a view looking down State Street at a traffic circle located in the City of New London, a historic seaport located at the mouth of…
Editors Note: We are back to business, as usual, today after last weeks shut down for general site maintenance. Thanks go out to all of our readers for your patience and comments about The Old Motor while this work was being accomplished. The featured image is a late-1960s view of a section of the parking…
“One an a two an a”… the lead photo today shows Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra and singers on the studio grounds where the weekly show was produced when it was not out on location or on tour. The convertible show car was supplied by Welk’s sponsor for the weekly “_ _ _ _ _…
This interesting set of images was taken by photographer Roman B.J. Kwasniewski on October 7, 1923, after Jack Matte and his riding mechanic won the 1923 Wisconsin State Dirt Track Racing Championship. The photos apparently were taken in front of a house that he and his family lived in at 840 Grove Street in Milwaukee,…
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