The Week In Pictures 2

Driver Babe Stapp & riding mechanic Johnny Apple in Pirrung Special Shaw-Offy w/ Chevy Suburban in background, 1936 Indianapolis 500.

1957 Fiat 600 Multipla with skis on the roof and freshly made bed, in lobby of 1951 Gibraltar Savings & Loan Headquarters at 9111 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The building's architect, William Pereira, was preparing for the jet-age redesign of Los Angeles International Airport when this was taken.

Circa '17 Chalmers Record Speedster.

1941 Mercury Coupe.

Circa '18 Studebaker.

V12 powered '36 Lincoln Model K, one of thirty $5000 Convertible Phaetons or fifteen $5500 Convertible Sedans coachbuilt that year by LeBaron. '37 California plates.

Exclusively for the American market, 1965 Sunbeam Lady Imp and Lord Imp in front of I.Magnin. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A new car a man wouldn't want to drive but would be more than happy to give to his wife as the "ultimate present" is the new Lady Imp. Based on the popular Sunbeam Imp sport sedan, the Lady Imp comes complete with such totally feminine features as a hair dryer, mobile Princess phone and cosmetic perfume console. It is richly upholstered in a bright and striking floral pattern, and interior and exterior trim are equally feminine... Designed specifically for men, the Lord Imp has features such as ship-to-shore radio, marine compass, ship's bell, air horns and portable bar. It has nautical theme upholstery and the trim inside and out carries forth the boating motif. Both cars were exhibited by Rootes Motors of England at the New York International Auto Show. Price of either car is placed at about $3,700. Color details of Lord and Lady from the wonderful Imp Site, which reports that milord was found in Sacramento, California and repatriated by a Dumfriesshire UK Imp fanatic, her ladyship was spotted in a Dubai auto museum in 2009 by a Dutch enthusiast.

H/Stock '69 AMC Javelin sponsored by illegible Truro, NS dealership. At time of post, driver Dewayne Cleveland was Director At Large of ATVANS - the All Terrain Vehicle Association of Nova Scotia.

Circa '17 Saxon roadster cyclecar.

Oil man visits drilling site in his '56 Lincoln Continental Mk II.

Lotus Eleven. Wardan Hill 1963.

 

June 29, 1955. Apparently this Dual-Firebomb is actually the 1954 Dodge Firebomb show car built by Ghia for Chrysler. As Dual-Ghia owner Carl Kofron explains in a comment left @ Car Styling, The black car that Blackhawk has is the Firebomb and is the prototype for the Dual Ghia. That car is what Casaroll showed at the '55 Grosse Point Yacht Club as the up coming Dual Ghia. In the 1930s, Gene Casaroll's Auto Shippers firm revolutionized the delivery of new cars in America with a fleet of 100 open tractor-trailer transporters criss-crossing the country. He founded Dual Motors shortly thereafter, building twin-engine lowboy tank recovery vehicles during WWII. By the time series production of the former Firebomb began in 1956, discrete tail fins had been added. Sources say 117 of these were built between 1956 and 1958, but Mr. Kofron's is #131.

'33 Chevrolet w/ Orleans County Fair, Barton, Vermont billboard. Myself on the farm w/ my old Chevy, 1939.

1931-3 Auburn Speedster On Muroc Dry Lake & Route 66

Muroc Dry Lake 2/38

93 mph Muroc Dry Lake California 4/7/40

Wild Youth - Stockers, Hot Rods, Jalopies, Bikes, Customs

1951 Studebaker.

Model A Ford.

1941 Ford.

1971 Ford Torino GT.

1936 Oldsmobile.

Circa 1948 Mustang.

1938 Oldsmobile 6.

David Greenlees at The Old Motor has the scoop on this Auto Red Bug buckboard, likely a Smith Motor Wheel driving a Smith Flyer, the complete unit revised and rebranded by Briggs & Stratton in 1920.

1951 Ford Tudor.

1957 Chrysler.

Xydias/Batchelor SoCal Special, Bonneville 1950.

Model A Ford.

1938 Willys.

Circa 1920 L-Head Mercer in Southern California, Bob Biggs Balboa Beach Spring 1928.

1939 Ford Deluxe, '48 Minnesota plates.

1950 Mercury Monterey, Texas plates.

1956 Plymouth Surfin' Suburban.

1941 Ford.

1949 Buick Super Sedanette.

The DangLer No.2, flathead Ford V8.

1962 Ford Galaxie 500 390 or 406.

Jim's Triumph T100 & Lorrie's Vespa, New Orleans 1955.

1939 Plymouth.

1938 Ford Deluxe.

1920s Dodge, California plates.

Tarzan & Jane w/ 1950 Ford.

1946-8 DeSoto w/ Wisconsin mirror enthusiast positively identified by adhesive letters on the hood apex spelling The Fox.

Circa 1972 hippies being hassled by The Man.

Hal Monsor, San Francisco CA, May 1942.

1956 Chevrolet 210.

1960 Chevy Impala.

1950 Ford w/ sharecropper shack.

1930s Austin Ruby.

1940s Indian in Southern California.

Mystery sprint car, Central Valley California.

1934 Ford, Astoria Oregon vicinity.

Aberdeen, Washington Piston Pusher w/ 1952 Ford & new 1956 Plymouth Plaza.

1940 Ford in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Ginger riding by in my car.

South Side Chicago, Illinois.

Amoco gas pump jockey & 1932 Chevrolet.

1950 Olds Super Rocket 88.

1950 Buick, Fort Bragg, North Carolina vicinity w/ offending digit.

1933-5 Ford, Southern California, top chop in progress.

1971 Ford Pinto.

1947 Cadillac, Texas plates.

1957 Ford Skyliner, Chicago vicinity.

Model T Ford near Binford, North Dakota.

1950-2 Nash Rambler Convertible Landau, restoration not in progress, What are you looking at?

1940 Ford & 1947 Studebaker.

1949 Chevrolet Deluxe.

1947-8 Chevy, California plates. Surf's up!

Harley Davidson.

1965 Chevelle Malibu SS being used as intended.

1954 Ford Customline Sunliner & Petermobile.

Model T Ford & 1946-8 Dodge.

Mother's ruin w/ 1951-2 Dodge Coronet.

Powell P-40 Streamliner, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Sportsman oval track car, Aberdeen, Washington vicinity.

1953-4 Ford, '53 Pennsylvania plate.

Wild West 1960 Ford Fairlane 500.

Mystery cycle car.

1936 Dodge somewhere over Bangor, Maine.

1955 Ford, '63 Connecticut plates.

1938 Chevy & friends.

1965 Chevy Impala & 1968 Mercury Cougar in Florida. Car I stayed on in West Palm.