Showing posts with label what is it. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what is it. Show all posts

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Motoring Magazine and Motor Life, 1913, and available online to read at your leisure

  I enjoy reflecting on the cars of 100 years ago, it's amazing that they were all simple enough for a gearhead like me to work on, repair, or improve on.  What do you make of the above tire covers? A primitive retread? And that company name, Leather Tire Goods... what leather tire goods did they make? I think I've pointed out several times that roads were so bad that tires were lucky to last a

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Streamlined COE fuel tanker of unknown make built for Gilmore, 1935, either by

Good looking rolling advertisement, some think it was a White designed by Count de Sakhnovsky, and others think it was designed by Wellington Everett Millerthe above 2 photos are from Steve, and he looked up this tanker, and these photos were taken during the Yosemite Economy runs, 1936-38