Vintage Photo Of The Day

[goodfellow]

Love the "ice cold beer" signs. People forget that refreshing cold beer was a prime luxury in the 19th and early 20th century. Most of the stuff was consumed at room temperature. Even deep beer cellars or caves couldn't chill the suds down to a point where it was considered "ice cold".

I recall that my grandfather used to bring fresh beer home from the pub or the local brewery in a milk can and just store it in his home cellar for a day of two. That cellar temp was just a few degrees cooler than the upstairs rooms.

[slip knot]

years ago the local beer joints were ice houses. Beer was just piled into metal water troughs and covered in ice. The ice house out by my house didn't even have electricity except for a few lights. But damn that was good beer.

[muddy]

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[goodfellow]

Holy Moly!! -- Lacquer paint job - 10 coats hand rubbed? Even back then that was a hell of a deal. I color sanded and rubbed a lot of lacquer paint in my day, and that is a long tedious process given that you had to use extreme caution not to cut through the layer. Acrylic lacquer is finicky -- and the time involved is very lengthy.

At $10/hr for custom work, this place must have have been very popular.

[john k]

Poor Studebaker Lark, got it coming and going.  A forward control Jeep truck as a wrecker had to be rare even in 1961.  Price of a custom paint job was 2-3 weeks wages back then,  remember that bubble top custom car in a magazine from about 1966.  Thanks for those pics.

[muddy]

Holy Moly!! -- Lacquer paint job - 10 coats hand rubbed? Even back then that was a hell of a deal. I color sanded and rubbed a lot of lacquer paint in my day, and that is a long tedious process given that you had to use extreme caution not to cut through the layer. Acrylic lacquer is finicky -- and the time involved is very lengthy.

At $10/hr for custom work, this place must have have been very popular.

Or was it a Earl Scheib kinda place....

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[J.A.F.E.]

The car in the shop labor sign is the Predicta built by Darryl Starbird in the late 50's. It started as a 57 T-Bird.

[muddy]

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[john k]

The fine specimen looking over the flathead powered coupe looks to be Big Daddy - Ed Roth, a major 1960s hotrodder-custom car builder.

[Rural53]

Avro Lancaster bomber Q for Queenie, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson, DFC, AFC, DFM, flies under the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 22 October 1943.

[muddy]

The fine specimen looking over the flathead powered coupe looks to be Big Daddy - Ed Roth, a major 1960s hotrodder-custom car builder.

Yep the Rat Fink himself

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[john k]

The ladies pumping gas at the Standard Oil station,  into a 1941 Ford, probably during the war when women took over many jobs.  The 1956 Chevy lot is highlighted by the Chevy Cameo pickup,  a rare model still,  the rest are standard step-side pickups.

[fatfillup]

The ladies pumping gas at the Standard Oil station,  into a 1941 Ford, probably during the war when women took over many jobs.  The 1956 Chevy lot is highlighted by the Chevy Cameo pickup,  a rare model still,  the rest are standard step-side pickups.

Picked up on the Cameo too.  Saw one sold yesterday on a Mecum repeat.  Said the fiberglass sides were installed over the stepside bed. didn't know that and yes they are quite rare. 

[muddy]

Starting to think? We're all the trucks stepside back then (GM Ford, Chevy etc)? I'm pretty sure I know the answer.....

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[The Magic Ratchet]

Ford introduced the Styleside bed in 1957. Chevrolet built the Cameo from 1955-1959 until the Fleetside was ready in 1960. I'm not sure about Dodge et al but they were on about the same timeline.

Lou Manglass