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Used automobile and truck auctions are relatively common these days, although we run across very few vintage photos of organized vehicle auctions in the post-WWI days. This set of images was taken in the early 1950s at Ace Motor Sales, a Ford dealership that research shows has been in business since 1913 in Woodbury, NJ….
By Michael Lamm: In 1935, Dodge began building a series of trucks that used styling cues from Chrysler and DeSoto Airflow automobiles. They had waterfall grilles similar to Airflow cars, and most seem to have been made for major petroleum producers, among them Esso (Standard Oil of New Jersey) and Texaco. Lead image – Unlike…
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 we celebrate the…
Aero-engined specials were popular in the UK and Europe before WWI and after it due to surplus aircraft engines being available to power them. Many of these “Monsters” were based on early dual-chain-drive Mercedes chassis’ because of the high-quality construction and strength, and the ease of changing drive sprockets, and the final drive ratio for high-speed motoring….
By Robert D. Cunningham: For decades, owning a piece of real estate in one of America’s bustling downtowns had been a sure-fire money-maker for investors. But as the Great Depression settled in during the 1930s, building maintenance was often neglected, particularly when the businesses that occupied them went belly-up. As a result, many previously sturdy…
This is the second part in a series of artwork from the The Detroit Institute of Art. In Part I we wrote “One doesn’t necessarily think of the “Motor City,” Detroit, MI, as being a center for the arts. However, the Detroit Institute of Arts has one of the most extensive and well-regarded collections of…
Today’s featured photos are two of a series of newspaper press images for the Marathon Oil Corporation used to promote sales of the Company’s products in and around Ann Arbor, MI, in “The Ann Arbor News.” Marathon Oil remains in business today. Both images are dated November 1951 by the source. The expandable picture below…
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