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the guy who finds the most unreal amount of info about vehicles, Steve (I've posted before about his incredible skills) is now posting his own blog! Serviside.blogspot.com

celebrity, delivery truck, electric car, GMC, Hollywood, Scooter, van

Learn what Debbie Reynolds was doing on this Lambretta http://serviside.blogspot.com/2011/08/more-scooters-another-singer-since-i.html

Learn about the Singer, Sammy and Marilyn, and why they got together for a photo shoot at http://serviside.blogspot.com/2011/08/frank-sammy-marilyn-and-singer-scan-of.html

Learn about electric GMC vans and trucks, (look at the height of this beast) at http://serviside.blogspot.com/2011/08/gmc-electric-trucks-during-my-daily.html

Because Steve knows how to dig up the info, and tells a good story on the background on the above vehciles and stars... so get a look at Steve's blog if you are into learning the story behind the photos, and what else was going on to make the photos happen

Familienfest 17 at Deerpark Winery and Car Museum

before and after, humor, Kombi, van, VW, VW bug

Jim Beam's publicity stunt of selling whisky in bottles that look like cars and other things was brilliant. People who aren't bottle collectors still buy the ones that pertain to their hobby, they are that well made

The ladder in the above photo on the left side is the below 2 photos

Gourmet food trucks are now on a tv show on the food channel, "The Great Food Truck Race"

van, work truck

Vans from San Diego, Los Angeles, Irvine, Costa Mesa, Cleveland, Boston, and New York are competing in a cross country trip for $100,000 prize, and you can watch on Sundays at 10pm/9c and Wednesdays at 8pm/7c

I posted about these when I learned that a huge shift in food vans was going on, and they started getting a bit of media attention in the news http://choosingscars.blogspot.com/2011/04/gourmet-feed-trucks-were-gathered-to.html

a variety of interesting things found while browsing through the library online photos

delivery truck, electric car, junkyard, Mercedes Benz, Oldsmobile, racing, racing. LSR, Selden, Stanley, tour bus, van, WW2

George B. Selden in his first automobile, patented 1895... but marked 1877 because that was the year he made it.

a photo of the first automobile

1886 Benz

1903 Olds Pirate, a one cylinder special race car that held a record for the one mile speed record

1904 curved dash Olds

1907 sports racer

1906 Stanley

Suposed to be the first limo in America

J. M. Quinby & Company; Builders of aluminum automobile bodies 1909

Mercer

I noticed the odd sign above the storefront "Automobile Jobbers"

1944 east 138th street ... and that truck bed in the bottom of the photo looks handmade, and put into the rumble seat area... was the neat trick to shift a car classification during fuel rationing during WW2 from car to commercial truck and then it could get more gas more often if I recall correctly.. and this is a 1944 photo