Category: Automotive

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.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 909 – PB&R, Pigeon Pursuit and Ferry Fails

[Found here, here, here and here.]

The Mighty Oak

[h/t John McL.]

Google Street View

All found in (the addictive) Wonders of Street View.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 905 – Peacock Spider Kabuki, Florida Critters, and A.L. Cantrell’s Gas Station & General Store

[Found here, here, and the 3rd created from a colorized stereogram of A.L. Cantrell’s Crown Gas Station & General Store, Penfield, Georgia (1941) found here.]

Update: Link to the store photo found here.

Bug of the Apocalypse

[Images of ROMP found here, here and here, video here.

Wave Hello To Honest Joe – Rubin Goldstein

“Nobody outside his family knew his real name. Dallas knew him as Honest Joe. For nearly three decades Honest Joe’s pawn shop was one of the central hubs of activity in Deep Ellum. He sold everything from gold watches to prosthetic limbs to automatic weapons. His two-story building was covered in hand-painted signs and hubcaps – or was it? It was covered in signage and hubcaps, but as for the two-story part . . . well, that’s another story . . .”

[Top photo by Thomas Hoepker (1963) found here. Second photo found here (with a must-read history); third here; fourth here.]

Cat Charging

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 902 – Prancyboys, Seal Lion Boops & The Bus of Judgement

[Found here, here and here. The 3rd is from the final scene of The Graduate.]