Category: Automotive

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.]

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.