Category: Automotive

Memories of Daytona

[Found here.]

On Shore Wake Rider

“Surfer Mary Ann Hawkins. The photo was taken by famous surf photographer Doc Ball in Long Beach. The date usually given for the photo is 1938 and there was a flood in Los Angeles area in 1938; however, the license plate on that 1935 Ford looks like a 1936 California plate.”

[B&W photo found here, caption found here.]

Crime & Punishment in the UK

Someone got demoted.
[Found here.]

Vintage Lineup

[Found here. Unknown source, location, photographer. Could be AI.]

For Want of a Jump

1950-54 DKW F89 Meisterklasse, Sweden. Dieter Klein 2019.

[Photo of an abandoned DKW Meisterklasse by Dieter Klein found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 914 – Pupholstery, Entranced & Playing Atari Freeway

[Found here, here and here.]

James Groceries

James Groceries, Tacoma, Washington (circa 1940) colorized.

[Black & white photo found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 911 – Oakland A-Holes, OctopusOctopusOctopus & Magic Hairspray

[Found here, here and in here.]

1940 Pontiac Drive-In Special

June 11, 1940. “General Motors exhibit at Golden Gate International Exposition,
San Francisco. Transparent Car with Pontiac Chassis and Body by Fisher.”

Plexiglas model demonstrates the ease of smuggling friends into the drive-in and/or transporting bodies out of town.

[Images found here and here.]

The Aftermath

Damage from torrential rain and subsequent flooding, Valencia, Spain, November 2024. [Image found here, story here. Google Maps street view of Avinguda Gómez Ferrer, Alfafar, València here.]