Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Mt Saint Helens..........

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/May18/MSHThisWeek/images.html







Sad....

 

Apollo 11 Liftoff Spectators

 

Public Viewing Area for Space Shuttle launch

 

Gemini with Agena on Earth (look close and there IS a wagon in the background!)

 

Awesome pics. I have never heard of the ghost parking lot. Pretty interesting. Also, the vintage bike race pics are awesome. Do you have anymore? I would love to build a few old bikes to put on the top of my wagon.

 

Yeah, I know there not wagons but.......COOL!

 

Crosleys

http://crosleyautoclub.com/WhenTheyWereUsed/WhenTheyWereUsed.html



The 1948 Crosley Station Wagon belonged to The Lancers Car Club in 1963. They were racing Ricky Scerbo from Boonton, NJ. Here is a not from the the president of the club at the time of tthe photo.

We had a car club The LANCERS, that turned into drag racing, cause it was too expensive to build a custom car back in 1960. The drive train was 48 Ford set on a Model A ford chassis which we had first, and then built the Crosley Wagon. Bought the bare body from a guy, Harry Fister, who had ARCO station in Caldwell, NJ. The picture on the Internet was taken at Island Dragway, Great Meadows, NJ. The car ran some slower times in the 14.00 and 13.00, in D/A altered. Had a ton of fun and won many thropies and some competition eliminators cause everyone else went home and the four of us stayed around to enjoy the drag racing. It is great to see it on the Crosley Website for the world to see.

The Lancers Car Club - Singac, NJ - Bob Fomen - President 1962 to 1967





Wayne sent the following caption: The '48 with the anti-fog things in the windshield was mine. These pictures were taken in Racine, Wisconsin in the late 50s. The brown 47 sedan with whitewalls was my brothers and the other three belonged to a fellow named Clarence Peterson. The 47 sedan on the right was painted up to be "The Purple People Eater". It was used in parades. It had a big chrome horn on the top and an eye painted on the hood. Of course, it was purple. Yes that's a panel delivery in the middle.



The picture was taken in May 1948 at the start of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, BC. Stan Smith drove it from Michigan to Alaska.


dealer lot in 1949.




This is another photo from my files. It has been pointed out that the sign in the background is in Japaneese so it is likely taken in Japan. The lettering on the side is readable if you know the language.

It has been verified by a Chinese professor and his Japanese friend that the four dots at the left are a Chinese symbol, too old for them to know. The next three characters are Japanese indicating some sort of commercial enterprise. The final two symols are pictographs indicating buildings. The second line is the company's telephone number.

Any additional help or information would be appreciated.



Following WWII, aircraft mechanic Charles Lincoln Nicholas returned to his hometown of Fairmont and subsequently opened a Crosley repair shop and then dealership (left photo). Later he moved into a building he shared with the Peck Brothers at 1419 East Blue Earth Avenue (right photo).



"This is my uncle Ronnie Kaczmar in front of his 1948 Station wagon.

Ronnie would have been about 15 at the time. The photo was taken in 1957 at
the Kaczmar family home in Dearborn Michigan. Ronnie had just gotten his
first car which my father still owns. The car is still located in the
garage shown in the background."



This was taken in 1968. This "blue and white" Crosley has been to the continuous 48 states. Ron Kaczmar drove this car to the most of the states with my Grandfather, Walter over the years. Ronnie visited the remaining states with his friend Jean in 1992. Visiting the missing states included a 6000+ mile trip from Dearborn, Michigan through Seattle Washington, to Long Beach California. My uncle and Grandparents would often take Crosleys on long trips, including this trip to Florida from Dearborn, Michigan."


So how did Mike Banks, one of the authors of the Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation, get interested in Crosleys.

"When I was four years old I would walk to the neighbor's driveway and spin the propeller on the Crosley wagon he owned. This gentleman, Jack Griswold, who owned a total of 16 Crosleys during the 1940s and 1950s, is still with us, now in Margate Florida, sent photos of his Crosleys (including 2 Hotshots), and the actual car that was my first memory of Crosley! This photo was taken in 1955." --Mike

Now you know the rest of the story.

 

My kind of wagon owner....

 

Playboy Motor cars

http://www.playboymotorcars.com/more_historical_photos




Two photos of another Playboy station wagon. Or is it? There are rumors that there was only one wagon built, and the color was changed periodically to give the public the illusion that there were more cars. Again, these wagons are now lost.
Do you know where one is???