Old Cars and Old Planes

[CWBuff]

Came across this photo on this page... looks like a buncha shots of wings and wheels...




And I dunno why this didn't pop into my head sooner... it isn't as 'vintage' as most everything else posted here, but it's still pretty groovy. I used to have the poster, and somewhere have a larger color image. But this'll have to do for now...



Some more photos of Big Daddy Flyin' Navy, this time on the USS Lexington, here...


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[CWBuff]

Awright... one more, then I quit...

Most everyone here has probably seen this one many times... and it doesn't show a bird, just a car tryin' to fly like one, but what the hey...

LAUNCH THE ALERT PLYMOUTH!!




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[The Inspector]

Had a girlfriend in High School that drove a F eeble I talian A ttempt at T ransportation 1800, it was a really nice car that would sometimes go nearly two whole weeks before coughing up some critical and expensive, long lead time part or other.

[hang the expense]

Had a girlfriend in High School that drove a F eeble I talian A ttempt at T ransportation 1800, it was a really nice car that would sometimes go nearly two whole weeks before coughing up some critical and expensive, long lead time part or other.

That is an apt description.LMAO. The 124s were a blast especially if you knew how to work on them.Found in atlanta thumbin.

[Steve T]

The very first car in the thread appears to be a 1932 Studebaker ambulance...surely the most elegant "Krankenwagen" I've ever seen! This is a fun thread. Here's one from me...1962 Studebaker Lark (mine), parked in front of an Avro Canada CF-100 at Mt.Hope in 2009. The Clunk had recently been removed from the pylon where it had been displayed outside 447 Wing RCAFA at the airport. The aircraft has since been disassembled and is now part of the Thomson/Rubin collection based at Markham north of Toronto. The intention, at least initially, was to use it as spares for another CF-100 being restored to fly...Both the car and the airplane were built here in Ontario, the CF-100 at Malton (Avro's plant was on what is now Pearson airport) and the Studebaker at Hamilton (in a plant slated to be torn down this summer)...



Stand by for a couple more...

S.

[Steve T]

My '62 Lark with CWH's gate-guard CF-104D...


And another shot of the Lark and the 447 Wing CF-100, this time while the Clunk was still mounted.

Lark and a Canadair T-33 at the Hamilton Air Force Assn in Dundas.

S.

[Steve T]

And three shots of another "car that wants to be a plane"...seen in South Bend, Indiana, in May 2010, this is a 1950 Studebaker Champion Starlight, quite stock (flathead six and all) excepting its beautifully-done P-38-themed paint job...nicer than some I've seen on actual Warbirds.


Somebody here must have a shot they could post of the famous Aussie '55 Chevy dragster with the Merlin occupying the front half of the chassis, and markings inspired by a 352FG Mustang...wild.

S.

[JohnB]

A couple of years ago the Avanti club calendar had a Studebaker Avanti inn front of a F-89, IIIR, the one in Vermont.

Steve...good to see another Studebaker fan here. I have a 63 Avanti.

[The Inspector]

Steve T,
Believe you're right about the meat wagon in photo #1, I took a couple shots @ a GOOD GUYS Show of a 25 Studey sedan that had been sort of Resto-rodded, impressively huge car, it was near a 27 BUICK coupe that was full on hot rodded with an Hilborn injected 455 nail head.

[Mark Allen M]

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[Craig59]

The car second from the top of the ones parked side-by-side is a 1936 or 1937 Lincoln Zephyr Four-Door Sedan.

I'll throw a few into the mix, if I may...

These first two are from my collection, the rest came from various web sources.


I dunno why, but this reminds me of fly-in breakfasts... and the pancake breakfast at Genny...


Project 914 Archives (S.Donacik collection)

[The Inspector]

SB-17G-105-VE 4485746 crashed near Tyler Peak in the Olympic National Forest in N.W. Washington 1/19/52, three fatal 5 survivors, wreckage still there. Truck looks like a BROCKWAY or FEDERAL.

A HAMILTON METALPLANE of NWA (no, not the rap group!) Hamilton absorbed by Boeing and merged with Standard Steel Propellers to give us Hamilton-Standard propeller Co. before the 1934 trust busting fiasco. The truck is a FORD 'AA' belonging to Railway Express Co.(kids, ask your folks)

DC-3 N 21746 l/n 2104, model -208A delivered to AA 2/39, WO 1/5/47 @ Jones Beach N.Y. fueler is a WHITE (still in business but now speaks with a Swedish accent, ya shoore).

A stagnantwing (old inside joke) and a Holden UTE.

Goodyear gas bag, 35/36 FORD 3 window coupe 34 FORD Roadster, 34 FORD Sedan (Bonnie and Clyde) 36 Chevy sedan.

It's possible the 20th P.G. P-40's are at either Hamilton or MUROC in midd-ish 1941

[Asterperious]

not so old but a good one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1KTWHyvy0A

this one too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHC94PR4ygs

[JohnB]

A HAMILTON METALPLANE of NWA (no, not the rap group!) Hamilton absorbed by Boeing and merged with Standard Steel Propellers to give us Hamilton-Standard propeller Co. before the 1934 trust busting fiasco. The truck is a FORD 'AA' belonging to Railway Express Co.(kids, ask your folks)

The sole airworthy Hamilton was recently sold to a buyer in the Seattle area. He's a friend of a friend and I hear he hopes to fly it.
"Trust busting"..isn't that another name for FDR's anti-big business demagoguery? It drove Bill Boeing from his won company in disgust.
And don't forget his parnoia about the air mail contracts led to a lot of fine USAAC pilots losing their lives doing a job they were ill-equipped to do.

A stagnantwing (old inside joke)...

And a bad joke at that. That's no way to describe one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built.
I've flown in one, what a beautiful ship. My friend loved his, but said it was a handfull when landing.

[The Inspector]

Came across this photo on this page... looks like a buncha shots of wings and wheels...




And I dunno why this didn't pop into my head sooner... it isn't as 'vintage' as most everything else posted here, but it's still pretty groovy. I used to have the poster, and somewhere have a larger color image. But this'll have to do for now...



Some more photos of Big Daddy Flyin' Navy, this time on the USS Lexington, here...


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If you go to NHRA.com and click into DRAGSTER INSIDER by National Dragster Editor Phil Burgess, about 2 months ago he did a three or four parter on GARLITS and 'Big' spoke a great deal about the Navy sponsorship on Swamp Rat and how the Navy dropped the sponsorship over a cross Garlits painted on the cowl of the car. Every Tuesday and Friday I check Phils column and always learn something about drag racing's history.