Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Henry Ford racing Alexander Winton, crazy hot headed young hooligans, they must have reached speeds in the 40's (whoopee!)

Friday, July 22, 2011

heading off to the races, Paris, 1908

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

motorized sled from the 1911 South Pole expedition of the Terra Nova

One of the three Wolseley motor sledges built for the Terra Nova Expedition
found on http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

Monday, July 18, 2011

102 yr old Bleriot designed aircraft with a 100 yr old engine flys for the first time

 Experimmental Aviation Assoiciation enthuisiasts decided to undergo 1000's of hours to build an aircraft to the design specs planned out 102 years ago.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/flying-a-102-year-old-design-for-the-first-time/#more-36045
and the source of their story: http://eaa.org/news/2011/2011-06-06_bleriot.asp which has the full uncondensed story
EAA’s project also commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first air mail flight by Earle Ovington’s famous Queen’s Bleriot, on September 23, 1911.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

taking the pretty girl for a ride, 1911. She is a airplane passenger pioneer

her name and the circumstances at http://www.shorpy.com/node/10200

notice they don't have seatbelts, but her dress is carefully tied around her legs so her ankles will remain demurely out of sight. The look on their faces is terrrific

100 years ago, this was the comfort best in tour busses. They look like overstuffed couches on wheels

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10308?size=_original  for the original with comments, like, the license plates are sequential

Friday, July 8, 2011

A sunday drive in the Adirondacks in 1909 on a Franklin

the ride must have been rough before paved roads, but this road does look like it has been graded, and maybe recently... looks very loose, or maybe just really sandy. Those seats on the car appear to be as plush as leather couches
Found on http://www.shorpy.com
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