Showing posts with label Terraplane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terraplane. Show all posts

hodge podge of autos that caught my attention

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 I missed noting on this photo what this car is.
 Billie Burke in San Francisco's Presidio Park drving her Studebaker
 Century
 Dodge... with a chauffer? In a Dodge? Really?
 Henry Ford in his first automobile
 Franklin
 1927 Holland Tunnel in New York
 New York hot dog stand 1935 in Manhattan
 a safety idea that didn't stick
 1909 flight of the Wright brothers... but look at the elegant horse carriage
 Lady Astor, a parliament member in  England and her Terraplane
 a Packard 12, 7 passenger limo
 Panhard and Levassor
 Regal
 This Supercharged Graham 120 won over 4 other v8 autos in a contest to win the favor of this fire dept chief

 REO Flying Cloud
 The first Oldsmobile, 1896

A Winton stripped down for racing
all found while browsing through http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

Hudson Terraplane dash and speedometer instrument gauge, unique in being in the center of the top of the dash

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good looking design

and the shifter stalk, about the size of a normal flashlight... good looking elegant design for the 1930's. The Tucker had the same shifter

More unusual stuff from the HAMB thread "Vintage shots from days gone by"

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Annette on a scooter
Amelia Earhart with the scooter

General Eisenhower chats with Omar Bradley leaning against his '41 Clipper staff car

Aerodynamic trucks and trailers


looks like a street car getting relocated


Sept 1949 Popular mechanics

Not sure what the above vehicle is

Kaiser factory that made aircraft

Ever see any racing Hudson Terraplanes before

What a great steering wheel, look slike it'a at a car show (from the I.D. board in the window)

This grill gets it.... the Hudson Terraplane hood ornament is not easy on the eyes... so this one has a Plymouth piece instead, and looks awesome

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1937 Hudson Terraplane, without the body, still resting in peace since the late 60's early 70's

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images via Garage Journal member BB767 (Thomas) http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567&page=4 but if you think the Terraplane that the tree osmosised with is far out, look at page one of the thread an see how Thomas keep after and restored a 5 acre piece of land with a 1930's mechanics garage that included a pre 1935 "Rotary" brand car lift, a Pepsi machine, 35 ton floor press, 48 tons of junk scrap steel and 278 varous tires, a 57 chev with title but totally clapped out, two tractors an IH and a Case, NOS auto parts from the 40's, 50's and 60's and maybe best of all, a few flat head engines and a a Sun Engine Analyzer

built in the late 1930's and used by a father as a blacksmith/welding shop and later in the 50's one of his sons did automotive repair there until his death in the mid 1970's. The father carried on until his retirement in the 1980's.The shop was then was slowly under used and finally abandoned. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567

The above 46-49 Jeep work truck for the shop that this terraplane became a permanent fixture of. Work trucks (real ones) beng rarely photographed, and who ever heard of a Jeep work truck? I had to post it.

1938 Hudson Super Terraplane, barn find... with the coolest dash and gauges

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I dig the hood and grill chrome


It's got the most interesting shifter, but look just past that and see the oil pressure indicator... and it doesn't read numbers when not running, it simply says NO oil pressure... simple, straightforward, to the point. How did this not become the norm?

No oil pressure and not charging, I love it!
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