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From the 1930 epic "The Big Dog House," which I regard as the Citizen Kane of talking dog prison melodramas. During the 1930s Pete Smith produced a whole series of "barkies" for MGM featuring trained dogs, often parodying hit movies of the time.
Today's kickoff is a nice Allard-influenced hot rod, a 1932 Ford roadster, channeled, sectioned grille, Duval windshield, and the 2 intakes popping up through hood suggest hopped up flathead. Bozeman probably had a few of these in 1952.
*Behind it are a 1951 Ford woody and a 1949-51 Chevy.
**Sidney Allard was sort of the precursor of Carroll Shelby, a Brit who built sports cars with American V8s (Ford/Mercury flatheads, OHV Cadillacs, and Chrysler Hemis) starting in 1946-7. One finished #3 at LeMans.
A fantastic pic, and I've been pondering and pondering the very unusual cowl. The closest I can conjure is a circa 1920 Stanley coupe, though not certain. If so this is my first Stanley Steamer ID request.
And if not, this definitely is: Grandpa almost certainly had the fastest car on his block with his ca. 1914 Stanley 606 roadster, although it took a bit of time to get the boiler up to steam.
In the early 20th Century there was a pitched battle over whether steam, electric, or gasoline would be the automotive standard. Steam certainly had a speed advantage, setting the world land speed record at 127 mph in 1906; that record for steam cars lasted 103 years.
*The reason gasoline won had nothing to do with the nefarious oil trusts, it was because you could transport and store gasoline out in the middle of nowhere, and refuel quickly.
This post-Pearl Harbor swabby looks ready for action, rocking some Ray-Ban Aviators as a 1939 Chevy coupe approaches.
You are correct sir, a 1941-46 International K3 or K4 flatbed, looks set up for hauling livestock. (unlike cars, trucks were continually made through WW2 and were titled as 1943-45 vehicles)
"Cyclecars" were small open cars mostly powered by air-cooled motorcycle engines and were quite popular in pre-war UK and Europe. The iconic example is the Morgan 3 wheeler, powered by a front mounted JAP (for J.A. Prestwich) V twin.
Yessir, what you have there is a 1949 or 50 Dodge Coronet or Wayfarer.
Re the previous junkpile ID, first clue was the engine. Plug spacing and manifold told me Dodge flathead 6; bumper narrowed it down to 1949-50 lower priced model.
Foreground car is a 1940 Chevy; regarding the background I'm afraid you are astray, as not all split grille cars are Pontiac. That one is a 1937-38 Buick.
Neat photo, and reminds me of my farmer grandpa telling me about going to Friday raffle night in town. Bottom right car is 1932 Ford sedan; 1st row is all Ford: 39-40 coupe, 37 pickup, 30 Fordor, and 34 Tudor.
1956 Plymouth Savoy. I dig how the hood letters have been reduced to "MO." Reminds me of how mini-truck guys used to blank out their Toyota tailgates to say "TOY" or "YO"
Terrific picture, and pending opinions from my Euro car friends I will say a circa 1924 Fiat 501 touring car. And it looks like rear tire has a flat-via.
Brand spankin' new 1917 Ford Model T roadster, and Lil' Grandpa in his patriotic WW1 doughboy uniform. I have a similar photo of my 5 year old dad in his tot-size WW2 uniform, and I still have that uniform.
That's because what you're looking at here is not a stock vehicle, it's a "speedster" style stripped down Ford Model T. Likely started out a 1907-14 brass era roadster.
"I accidentally drove and/or helicoptered to a 3 star Michelin restaurant in Napa for my friend's crucial once-in-a-lifetime 50th birthday party while making it illegal to open your taco stand" is some next level Animal Farm
I'm tempted to compare him to a televangelist who got caught with a prostitute, but a televangelist who got caught with a prostitute can't throw you in jail for stopping sending him payments
Twitter should just accept the fact that Instagram and TikTok are where people go to share joyous visual self expression, and Twitter is for malignant assholes to scream lunatic conspiracy theories
YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok is where nobodies go to become millionaires, Twitter is where millionaires go to become nobodies
Are you kidding me? At this very moment there are at least a dozen grad students writing dissertations on the class / gender politics of old car photos. I bet there are academic conferences on it