Vintage Photo Of The Day

[slip knot]

That green one was my dream car for many years. loved those Tin Indians.

[john k]

The GTO's!   I was 15, older sisters boy friend shows up with a new 66 GTO, tri power 389, 4 speed, tossed me the keys.  I had been driving a Ford with a flhead six,  could drive to school at 14 then.  Took it a mile down the highway, never wanted to give it back.   2 years later, another boy friend, 67 GTO, 4 spd.  Same run down the highway,  lets say it ruined me for anything less.  Which led me owning too many fast cars, and driving them hard.  Memories. 

[goodfellow]

That green one was my dream car for many years. loved those Tin Indians.

So true! It was the only US produced muscle car I ever longed for. John DeLoren may have gone off the rails later on in life, but at that point in time he had the keenest insight into mass market automotive design and performance at GM. He had the same vision for Pontiac as did Edsel Ford for Lincoln a few decades earlier. Sadly both of them were stifled in their creativity by their respective corporate bureaucracies.

[fatfillup]

Buddy in high school had a 67 GTO that I found and he bought.  Man we had a blast in that car and he ran the every living dog crap out of it.  400 with a 400 turbo behind it. 

[muddy]

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[DeadNutz]

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth was quite the artist. I think every kid of that era knew who Rat Fink was.

https://www.ratfink.com/

[goodfellow]

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth was quite the artist. I think every kid of that era knew who Rat Fink was.

https://www.ratfink.com/

I was at the tail end of that era. Rat Fink was staple in most of my automotive reading materials at the time. Big Daddy, Gene Winfield, and Larry Watson were automotive art "gods" back in the day.

[muddy]

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[Rural53]

This little tumble scraper - scoop was 1 of Bill Hamiltons early developments (CWF Hamilton) Bill brought Irishman Creek Station in MacKenzie country a 10,000 hectare block in 1921 & quickly set about building a workshop & dam for a hydro electric plant to power the farm & workshop, when they started they found digging out the ground was tough work so Bill built 1 of these to make it easy which it did, now back then this was cutting edge, others heard about it & next thing Bill is making them for Contractors, Councils & Government, he marketed them as I.C. Excavators even sold a licence to a British manufacturer to build them & this happened during the depression, this was the start of many years of earthmoving machinery development & production, in 1939 Bill started CWF Hamilton & in 1948 operations were relocated to a 10 hectare site in Christchurch & now made the workshop at Irishman Creek clear which Bill turned into his R & D shop & out of that in 1954 came the Hamilton Jet Boat powered by a 100E Prefect engine, Bill never said he invented anything! Just Perfected It



Working on Great Barrier Airfield

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diesel gas station around me

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[slip knot]

interesting heater in that bug.

[john k]

Interesting bunch,  putting the roof on the '50 Chevy Carryall,,looks like the next station is leading the A pillars, but the body is already painted. 

[DeadNutz]

Interesting bunch,  putting the roof on the '50 Chevy Carryall,,looks like the next station is leading the A pillars, but the body is already painted. 

It looks like the next station is to weld the top on as that looks like a welding flash curtain.

[muddy]

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[jabberwoki]

Mmmm pam goodness.