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In this weekly series, we ask our readers to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles along with the location and anything else of interest to you in the photos. You can look back at all the earlier parts of this series here. The images are via This Was Americar. The lead image…
New car dealers have used direct mail to send postcards to customers and prospective car buyers for over one hundred and ten years. The early cards were printed and colorized, although as soon as Kodak developed “Kodachrome” and brought it to market in late 1936, it became the new standard. After WWII, it became one…
William Wayne “Cockeye” Brown was an auto racer who competed on the midwestern racing circuit. In 1919 he entered a Hudson in the 1919 Indianapolis 500 and qualified it for the race, although the car went out of the early with a broken connecting rod. At the time of this run-up, Pikes Peak to the…
Lansing, Michigan, the State Capitol, was the home of the Oldsmobile founded by Ransom Eli Olds on August 21, 1897. The Olds Motor Works produced its first automobile, the “Curved Dash” Olds, in 1901, and it was mass-produced between 1902 to 1907. The Company went defunct in April 2004, after producing over thirty-million vehicles. The…
The 197os lead image is a screenshot from the first of two NASS videos featured today of vintage film stock. It begins with traffic passing by one of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank locations in New York City. You’ll see footage at this location shot in several directions, interesting scenes of pedestrians on the sidewalks,…
In this weekly series, we ask our readers to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles along with the location and anything else of interest to you in the photos. You can look back at all the earlier parts of this series here. The images are via This Was Americar. Today’s lead image…
This pair of river barges docked in Pittsburgh, PA, on the Ohio River, on May 13, 1918, have been reported to be the first new vehicles to be shipped down the waterway. The new 1918 Buick touring cars and roadsters in the image may have been produced at a regional Buick assembly plant and loaded…
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