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As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles along with anything else of interest in the photos. You can look back on all the earlier parts of this series here. The images are via This Was Americar. Today’s lead image is…
We are back with a fourth unique vintage video of remastered and colorized circa 1950 stock footage by NASS. A viewer of this on Youtube has reported that this was filmed in both directions on about a two-mile stretch of San Fernando Road between Pierce St. and Sunburst St. in the Hansen Hills neighborhood located…
By Robert D. Cunningham: During the 1970s, American motorists watched in disbelief as high-quality Japanese imports crossed the Pacific to flood our domestic new-car market. A similar—but reverse—flood nearly succeeded in 1923 when a determined entrepreneur developed an American automobile to be sold in Japan. Lead image – Fred Jiro Fujioka takes the wheel of…
Today’s feature images shot at the South Tacoma Motor Company located at 5602 South Tacoma Way in Tacoma, WA, highlight the introduction of the first all new post-war car from Chevrolet for the 1949 model year. The light-colored “Deluxe” convertible pictured above and below in the show room received the lion’s share of the attention…
Today we feature images of two new cars that Bob Wills either posed with or purchased. The lead image and an enlargement of it below is reported as being taken at a Chevrolet dealer located in Fort Worth, TX, at some point during the 1940 model year run. The photo at the bottom of the post…
As is the usual practice in this series, we ask our readers to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles along with anything else of interest in the photos. You can look back on all the earlier parts of this series here. The images are via This Was Americar. Today’s lead image is…
Today’s mid-1960s featured image is a “Columbus Citizen-Journal” press photo of the Northland Mall parking lot located at the intersection of Morse and Karl Roads about seven miles north of the center of Columbus, OH. It is reported to be the first Mall constructed near the City and opened in 1964. It was one of…
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