Vintage Photo Of The Day

[skfarmer]

any car accident is bad but them old cars were brutal. lots of steel, no crumple zone and nothing soft or anything that gives.

i know, people still died in car accidents and i have no numbers to back me up but my own experience tells me new cars are safer.

15 or 20 years ago i saw many more bad injuries and fatalities.  air bags, seatbelts, crumple zones and vehicles that keep their shape in a rollover protecting the passenger compartment keep people safer. i can only guess that many of those older vehicles without safety features no longer being on the road is part of it.

[fatfillup]

Sk you are correct on that safety of the new cars.  Just imagine where will be 20 years from now

Seeing the drag car being towed by a station wagon.  That would be a 1 ton dually today

[wantedabiggergarage]

I think it was the IIHS that did this a few years ago, but the video I quickly found was by Consumer reports:
https://youtu.be/fPF4fBGNK0U

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Some may recognize this guy....








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[Elroy]

Some may recognize this guy....

Jeff Beck............. picking himself up a Y block

[muddy]

Some may recognize this guy....

Jeff Beck............. picking himself up a Y block

Elroy knows his rock and rods!

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[muddy]

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[wantedabiggergarage]

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Reminds me of a picture from Spark your Dream, about the Zapps.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/home-is-a-journey-herman-candelaria-zapp-russia-7819922/

[muddy]

"A London bus trailing a wood gas generator. During and after WWII the supply of oil was restricted in half the world. The wood gas generators allowed to feed the petrol engines with a mix of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane obtained by burning wood with limited air, allowing the engines to work at less than a half of its nominal power.  15 millions of wood gas generators were sold in Europe in the nineteen forties."




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[goodfellow]

I remember back during the Arab Oil embargo in the 1970’s, some companies sprang up to develop wood gas generators for fleet passenger cars and delivery trucks. I seemed like a good idea at the time, but most of these companies were gone in just a few years.

I often wonder if a modern commercially engineered compact generator would be a viable fuel technology these days.


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[goodfellow]

Burger Chef was a favorite for my family back in the 1960's. Us locals hung out at "the Chef" even though McDs and BK were closer.

[fatfillup]

 Our hang out was Twin Kiss, a locally owned small franchise with soft ice cream, milkshakes, subs and pizza.  Pin ball machines and then some video games. Big parking lot sitting on the edge of town right on the highway. 

Man that is making me smile.  And don't remember much trouble.


That 7 Eleven logo is still recognizable after I would think several updates over the years. 

[muddy]

As a child mom and dad took us to Mc.Donalds to run around the play place.

As we got older in high school it was Hess. It was just outside borough limits so it was state police territory...

Then in my 20s it was Sheetz.... usually after quite a few at the local bar and line dancing. 

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[john k]

Got a big fondess for the full service gas stations.   The truck pulled half into the Sunoco bay kind of looks like a roll back, but those werent around in 1954..  Never saw a Burger Chef, my usual haunt was the A&W.   Could be wrong but remember reading the (fuel) coming from a wood generator was corrosive, and led to short engine life.  Thanks for memories.