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Automobile enthusiasts often think about what their own custom car would look like if they were able to construct one. In the early-1950s, Harry Birdsall and Joe Mascari were able to afford to have their own concept car constructed with plans to later build and sell a limited number of the vehicles. The project began…
Updated: Earlier this year we featured a photo of “Gasoline” Jack behind the wheel of a 1916 or ’17 Studebaker six-passenger stage filled with nine riders and a rabbit. Today’s feature image contains the Stage driver and six passengers with a baby in an earlier car, information with the picture states that his last name…
Eagle-Lion Studios a British film production company which was active between the years of 1946 to ’49 was located at 7324 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The Film Company was a producer of low-budget B-movies that accompanied British film releases as double features in theaters. In 1946, at the cost of sixteen-thousand dollars, Eagle-Lion had this…
Today’s circa 1960 image contains a clear and sharp view of parked cars in a lot located at N and Ninth Streets near the State Office Building in Sacramento, California. The vast majority of the automobiles are average American sedans and hardtops, although there are four two-seat sports cars and two small imported economy vehicles in…
Today’s feature image is a view of fairly heavy rush hour traffic on an unidentified street in San Francisco. The majority of the vehicles on the thoroughfare date to the early-to-mid fifties and a number of them date back into the forties. If any of our readers can home in on the location, we will know…
The white and turquoise Edsel convertible in the lead image is parked off to the left-hand side of an unidentified dealership in 1958 (the cars were only offered for sale at stand-alone Edsel sale agencies.) The attention-getting poster in the side window offering an Edsel for fifty-eight dollars a month may appear to be inexpensive now, but…
Due to the Great Depression, the 1932 to ’33 period was the most difficult time ever encountered by the domestic automotive industry. Compared with the “Roaring Twenties” seller’s market at a time of record production and sales rates, new car sales in early-1930s fell to a mere trickle of those seen in earlier times. Automobile shows…
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