Vintage picture thread

[70shortfleet]

Here's a pretty neat one

[doubleb's69]

Heres one. 31 Chevy 5 window built in the 60's by my great uncle who still owns it. 64 Impala 283 with dual quad high riser. 4 speed, 57 chevy rear end and metallic green paint with scales painted on the trunk. It has been parked for around 30 years and he won't let anyone buy it or even get it running ( believe me I've tried ) so it can go out for referance of how they were actually built back then. This pic was taken in the early 70's. Check out the silver El Camino in the background.

[ChevLoRay]

Here's a pic, taken in October of '63. The truck is a new '64, and the Impala is, too. The dirt track car runs a Chevy and they were getting ready to go to Memphis, which had an asphalt track. The racer would hook up so well it spent more time standing, than rolling. On dirt.....different story. The cars belonged to a guy I work with, who still has the '67 LWB Chevy he bought new.

[powerdriver 1958]

Go easy on the chick pics , They have closed many threads

[darkhorse970]

Originally Posted by ChevLoRay

Here's a pic, taken in October of '63. The truck is a new '64, and the Impala is, too. The dirt track car runs a Chevy and they were getting ready to go to Memphis, which had an asphalt track. The racer would hook up so well it spent more time standing, than rolling. On dirt.....different story. The cars belonged to a guy I work with, who still has the '67 LWB Chevy he bought new.

Love the look of that truck! Between this one and Delmo's Blackbird build, I want to paint my '63 black...

[richards72chevy]

[jocko]

here's the front gate of what is now Naval Air Weapons China Lake, CA - back in 57... one of my favorites. A few others added below that may not qualify, but close enough (sorry, even a f0$d in there too...)

[pritch]

EightBanger-Thanks for that picture of Little America. It's in Southwestern Wyoming on I-80, about 20 miles west of Green river, Wyo. It's changed a lot since then, but it's still there and open for business. I drive past it twice a week on my way to where I'm working these days, in Rock Springs, Wyo. It's owned by Earl Holding, who owns Sinclair Oil.

[Fred T]

Some old family photos. The 47 Dodge dad bought in Seattle to move to Kansas. Loaded everything he could in it. Had to have been a long drive in 50. The 55 Chevy I remember the morning dad brought it home. I'm in the first and last photo.

[capev86]

ok....really need to pull out all the old photos and scan them in. got pics of my grandpa's 78 blazer that was chief tow rig until my dad bought his 72 burb in 1983. a year later we picked up a 71 Holiday camper and we have a ton of images of the two. that very trailer is now sitting in my driveway and once it is fixed up a little i plan to haul it behind my 72 Burb c20. my dad's 72 was a c10 highlander package custom deluxe (mine is just a reg c/d) and was darker blue w/ white roof, tripod mirrors and yankee chrome cab lamps (doing the mirror swap and putting the actual lights from his truck on my burb). this is not a vintage pic and i've never actually hitched up my truck yet (used my dads 99 burb c1500 to bring the trailer down from my grandmother's) but you get the idea:



and yes eightbanger, she is gorgeous little thing! i'm almost 32 now and she's likely old enough to be my mother....oh well.....

[Andy4639]

Top left my mom getting some cold ones out of the cooler in Key West.
They would pull the little smokey trailer there every year for 3 -4 weeks of vacation. 67 camaro
Next was a 68 camaro that we had and the Impala in the back ground was the Chevrolet dealer back then from West Jefferson NC ( Gratham's)who were good friends of ours.

M&D getting the camper ready are just getting back home from Fla. Nobody can remember which. Newton Conover NC. 67 Camaro

My brother & me standing in front of the 67 Camaro, I was 7 years old!

The last 2 pictures are after James one of my older brothers bought the car from dad. Clairmont NC.

[eightbanger]

Originally Posted by pritch

EightBanger-Thanks for that picture of Little America. It's in Southwestern Wyoming on I-80, about 20 miles west of Green river, Wyo. It's changed a lot since then, but it's still there and open for business. I drive past it twice a week on my way to where I'm working these days, in Rock Springs, Wyo. It's owned by Earl Holding, who owns Sinclair Oil.

Your more than welcome pritch...I must say I'm really glad to hear that it still exists, perhaps if you were ever able you could take a pic of it now and post it. Places like that are, and always were, for outsiders like me, quintessentially American and just plain perfect.

Originally Posted by Fred T

Some old family photos. The 47 Dodge dad bought in Seattle to move to Kansas. Loaded everything he could in it. Had to have been a long drive in 50. The 55 Chevy I remember the morning dad brought it home. I'm in the first and last photo.

Those are great Fred....real life. Thanks for sharing them. I do love this thread.

[powerdriver 1958]

I dug this up , not nearly as old as some but over 30 years (at least) , Cat on the running board is free .

[special-K]

This one is from I lived in Flagstaff 30 years ago:

[haminator]

Here's a few. My dads tractor, that was about 69, I was 3 or 4 I think. Notice the Volvo in the back.
The 70 SWB my folks bought new, I still have it. This Dec. 1980 w'ere rebuilding the 307. Yes it is Dec. in Phx. AZ and I'm wearing a half shirt.
Rebuilding the 283 in the 57 in 81.
Canping in Parks AZ. about 78-79. Just a coup[le weeks after it got rear ended, you can see the crunched RR fender.

[haminator]

Some more: My buddy's 72 Blazer he bought after his Firebird burned to the ground. 1990
What paople do to steal a radio.
Do'in head gaskets on my 72 442 1988
Movin back to Phx. from Kansas in the big town of White Deer Texas 1986
Burned the paint of the 70 when our house burned down 1989

[haminator]

More: Our 70 Blazer lookin good in KS. about 1993
"Fixin" up the 70 SWB, never finished and put it back on the road 1991
Buildin a derby car with the 70 in the back ground 2003
The 70 Blazer chained in the front in northern AZ 1990
1963 Jeep Willys with the 70 waiting for some attention 1989

[Steve Hafner]

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Here's one for you to think about.

VERY Early Texaco Station -

But what is being done to this car ?

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[eightbanger]

Wonderful pic Steve, it looks like the rear wheels are on some sort of rolling road...early dyno testing?

[jim-bob]

subscribing: metal:

[dhaymaker]

There are some great pictures here! I don't have a lot of pictures from the early vehicles I bought and sold. It's unfortunate I wasn't really into taking pictures back then, because I've had an incredible number of trucks, as well as cars. Unlike many of the vehicles you all lhave owned over a long period, I've always had a tendency to buy and sell, not holding on to a vehicle for very long.

Here are a few pictures I've found and scanned in...The '55 is from Indiana, I believe this would be summer (looking at the corn, lol) of 1970. The '69 Chevelle was a BB, 4-spd, SS and the picture was taken in a parking lot at Dover AFB, DE in 1973. The '57 was setting in my front yard in Woodside, DE and is probably from 1975. Finally, from Hawaii, the '70 Olds is a W-31 car, 350 Olds powered, B&M auto. This was a wicked quick car. Managed to stuff some 15X10 Cragars with N50 15s, all in the wheelwell. This picture was taken at Bellows (a recreational area) where we were staying after packing our house up for the move back to the mainland. Shipped the car back to Oklahoma and sold it in 1981.

[richards72chevy]

[eightbanger]

That's how it was in the good ol days....if they had a problem, they came up with a solution.
It's the kinda thing that would send the saftey obssesed of nowadays into a tail spin.

[eightbanger]

More color 40's.

[Indyuke]

I love the pics, eightbanger! I'm amused with the last pic of the set... no hearing protection. You know they didn't have any hearing later on in life.