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Today we return to the “Images from the River Rouge” series with another set of interesting pictures by photographers who were employed by the Ford Motor Company. The lead photo of the armature assembly line dating to 1934 was taken by George Ebling, who was the chief photographer responsible for the photo-murals on display in…
Editors note: Today’s post is a look back to July 27, 2015 for the benefit of our newer readers and an interesting refresher for others. By Hampton C. Wayt: In the mid-1960s, if you were a young boy or girl interested in becoming a car designer at General Motors, you might have written to them…
The management of The Car Strip used auto and truck sales lot certainly knew that investing in attention-getting and memorable neon signage would get car buyers to stop in and look over the offerings. We are hopeful that our readers will be able to identify where the operation was located and possibly tell us more…
Today’s featured image taken on November 10, 1948, contains a view of a traffic circle and parking area at the El Toro Air Station located near Irvine, California, forty miles southeast of Los Angeles. The Marine Corps facility was constructed in 1942 and in operation between the years of 1943 to ’99. The photo by…
By David Greenlees: In upper echelons of auto racing the pressure to win races and championships is intense. Automakers, team owners, chief mechanics, and engineers sometimes bend the rules in a calculated risk to gain an advantage over their competitors to win, and afterward, hope that they can get away with it without being caught….
Gordon M. Buehrig penned the styling of the attractive 810 Cord which stopped the show at the New York Auto Salon held on January 6, 1935. Not content to leave a world class design alone many Cord owners felt the need to install cheap aftermarket ornamental gewgaws on their cars. After World War II ended…
To add to the series of salvage yard photos already posted here on the site today’s feature contains a set of artsy images by photographer Bob Fitch. The images were taken in 1971 at a former scrap yard located in Emeryville, CA, just west of a Sherwin Williams paint factory that was located on Sherwin…
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