Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

Side of the car tiller steering

photo of Rockford Illinios, not dated.Found on http://edwardianera.tumblr.com/Looks like a 1909 Model 22 Studebaker electric Stanhope phaetonfound at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=454635&imageID=1163604&total=907&num=320&word=col%5Fid%3A153&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=images&sLevel=&sLabel=Taking%20the%20Wheel%3A%20Manufacturers

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

motorized sled from the 1911 South Pole expedition of the Terra Nova

One of the three Wolseley motor sledges built for the Terra Nova Expeditionfound on http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

Saturday, July 16, 2011

1920 Dayton-Wright RB-1

Dayton-Wright RB-1 was built in 1920, a racing aircraft developed in the United States to participate in the 1920 Gordon Bennett Cup air race. The aircraft was a high-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear undercarriage operated by a hand-crank making it one of the first instances of undercarriage retraction for aerodynamic benefit alone, clearly ahead of his time. With a monocoque fuselage

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The space saving turntable (moves side to side, doesn't turn) at the Pullman factory in 1911

I've posted photos of it moving railcars around in this post, the 3rd and 4th photos : http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/pullman-baggage-and-mail-cars-1889-1909.htmlphotos found on http://csrrm.crewnoble.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=NEXT_BLOCK&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fcsrrm.crewnoble.com%2FSearchPullmanAll_Images.htm&TN=Pullman&SN=AUTO9939&SE=807&RN=30&MR=30&TR=0&TX

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

What do you make of this? 1910 Memphis Tennessee street photo caught a Model T Town Car... rare. Steve dug into the research for the ID and numbers

clipped from a much bigger photo http://www.shorpy.com/node/9647?size=_original1909-1910 Ford towncar compared to landaulet - the only difference is that the landaulet ($1,100) does not have a covered drivers compartment and the towncar ($1,200) does.  1909 -  236 produced; 284 sold .  1910 -  377 produced; 304 soldThe grids in the sidewalk on the top of the photo are glass blocks in the sidewalk

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

1948 Panhard Levassor Dynavia

found on http://www.cardesign.ru/forum/diskussii/obschenie/1352

1959 Curtiss Wright model 2500

photo from http://www.cardesign.ru/forum/diskussii/obschenie/1352info from http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/1960-hovercraft-lineup/the 1959 Curtiss-Wright model 2500 “Bee”, (AKA “Air-Car”) prototype. http://www.aerofiles.com/  Experimental 2p passenger air-cushion hover-car, built in test form (lower photo), anticipated market in ag application and as swamp buggy; 85hp Continental with 6′ two-blade

Some cars seem to have emotional features, this one looks mean, like a gremlin from the movie

Think it was accidentally made to look this mean? read about it here http://www.autoblog.com/2009/05/14/veritas-rs-iii-to-officially-debut-at-london-salon-prive/photo from http://www.cardesign.ru/forum/diskussii/obschenie/1352

the Santa Fe Trails "Victory Liner"

Thanks to Charles http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/   for sending these to me to share with all of you!

Sunday, February 27, 2011

the "NeverWas Haul" is the name of this vehicle at Burning Man

In the above the cow catcher is missing All three of these were from different sites, and I've posted two of them before, but never together. The middle one is new to me, and from http://megamoto.tumblr.com

Shelby Comet. Never heard of that, have you? Did you hear of the Shelby Europa? 14 made

Shelby Europa were just getting started by Claude Dubois, who raced a Ford of Antwerp Shelby Gt 350 in Spa in 1967. They came directly from Ford as semi-finished and completed by Dubois. Now it was not very many, 1971 and 72 made a total of just 14 pieces, including two convertibles.There are eight survivors, three of were in Sweden, then Norway, then to Finland.Well, so was there a special

World War one carrier pidgeon transport trucks

top one from http://svammelsurium.blogg.se bottom one from http://megamoto.tumblr.com

1922 touring body by Smith & Waddington in Sydney, Australia ... real unusual, it's called a charabanc

This is built on a truck chassis from White vintage 1922 and the huge body built by Smith & Waddington in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia. But this body type is called a Charabanc, the same name is also used for buses with open bodywork that was common at this time. This White charabanc had room for 15 people and had been ordered by Mr Day. He used it for New South Wales Tourist Bureau excursions