Street Scenes of Yesterday

[GreenMachine]

  Don't know if this has been posted before, searched and didn't find it. Anyway, it was from another forum and I figured alot of you guys would really get a kick out of it. I know it's made me start taking more random pics just because 20-30 years down the road it'll be interesting to look through.


http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/338226/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1

[Brock Samson]

thanks soooooooooooo much!!!    
thyis is exactly why i'm so into old photos now.. 

im only on page 12, but i've found my favorite photo! 

[GreenMachine]

Here's some good ones

[69 OUR/TEA]

Thanks for the link,very cool,love old scenery pics like this.

[Brock Samson]

  i liked this one 

   

this is alot better larger..

[GreenMachine]

1. The streetlight is mesmerizing
2. A '71 Charger & a '68 Charger
3. Las Vegas

[rusty lee]

I was looking through and found the mystery spot in upper michigan the wife and I stopped there last year. looks about the same.

[tan top]

wow this is a awesome link     thanks for posting 

[Manfred318]

Cool pics indeed

[BigBlockSam]

wow great pics. 

[Brock Samson]

pg. 19

[Brock Samson]

his early hemi firepower powered..
anyone care to guess what/who?..







this remind you of anything?..




i'm just sayin' is all.. 

 

[twenty mike mike]

his early hemi firepower powered..
anyone care to guess what/who?..

Looks like a Briggs Cunningham C-2R, but they had Cadillac engines.

[moparstuart]

his early hemi firepower powered..
anyone care to guess what/who?..







this remind you of anything?..




i'm just sayin' is all.. 

 

  an allard ? I know they were early hemi powered ?

[Brock Samson]

worth an inclusion.. for the noobs... 





and yes we know how awesome,..  it's awesome... 




chrysler 300 pace cars! 







off to the right... lower..




check out the AWESOME two door Hudson!! 







i'm betting it's smokey and the bandit, but in the upper top left..

[Brock Samson]

   

FirePower with the OHV V8
Main article: Chrysler FirePower engine
Using their military experience with the hemispherical combustion chambers, Chrysler decided to use this layout in their first OHV V8 in 1951, introducing a 180 hp (134 kW) Hemi V8 with a displacement of 331 in³ (5.4 L). The term Hemi was not applied to this engine by Chrysler, however. Different Chrysler divisions had their own versions of the early Hemi engine, all with different names and displacements. Chrysler and Imperial called their versions the FirePower. DeSoto, (Chrysler's now defunct medium class make), called theirs the FireDome (dome = hemi), Dodge had a smaller version, known as the Red Ram. Only Plymouth didn't have a version of the hemi. Their V-8 engine, introduced in 1955 as the "Hy- Fire", didn't have a hemispherical head design. Plymouth wouldn't get a hemi engine until the 1960s.

As soon as this engine was introduced, Briggs Cunningham chose to use the Chrysler OHV V8 in some models of his automobiles designed as race cars for international motor sports. A Chrysler-powered Cunningham C5-R won first in its class in 1953—and Team Cunningham automobiles using these engines finished as high as third place overall—at the 24 hours of Le Mans Grand Prix. Cunningham switched away from these designs in 1959 when Chrysler abandoned the hemispherical concept in favor of the wedge-head Chrysler B engine.

   

[moparstuart]

very cool !       on the briggs 

[twenty mike mike]

Ooohhhhh...the C-1 had a Cadillac engine, then he switched to the Chrysler for the C-2s and other models.

[dodgecharger-fan]

worth an inclusion.. for the noobs... 





and yes we know how awesome,..  it's awesome... 

What the heck are they?

[PocketThunder]

off to the right... lower..

here kitty kitty   

[bull]

Ever notice you rarely see any fat people in vintage pictures prior to about the early 1980s?

Anyway, here's a couple of my favorites so far (I'm surprised no one posted the Manteca Dodge dealership pic):

[Brock Samson]

 no, but i stared drooling at it for five minutes...

[Charger_Fan]

Holy crap, this is downtown Salt Lake! It sure doesn't look like that these days.



Cool link, thanks for posting that.

This "all weather" drive-in looks really weathered.

[bull]

Ever notice you rarely see any fat people in vintage pictures prior to about the early 1980s?

Heh, even Santa was skinny...

[Cooperman]

Is this the Itchy lot, or the Scratchy lot?