Wednesday, February 26, 2014

DeNooyer Chevrolet, a small Michigan town car dealership that has been in business since the 30's or so, and I recently learned that my Great Grandfather worked there for 30 some years retired from it in the 1960's


the above was posted on Hemmings by Dan and he commented that it was taken in 1944, and he found a copy online, and it was then reposted by CarrosAntigos... where I found it. Tracking it down took about an hour, and a library in Michigan has a large collection of photos, this was among them.



from a Flikr account


From a different Flikr account


and from another library http://heritage.portagelibrary.info/cdm/singleitem/collection/johntodd/id/57 I think the year is 1963


the cars from the 1990 Total recall

Darby pedestrian broadside digger



Steam powered tractor to till the fields, solving the longitudinal stability problem, with rate and depth adjustibility

Found on http://strangernn.livejournal.com/894575.html

Skip the first two minutes... then enjoy a fan short that they made to kick off a Tron movie sequel

Car wash sign that tops every one I've ever seen


Brilliance in marketing... sheer genius. Found on George Takei's Facebook page.

George points out the amazing fact... Right now Ralph Macchio is older than Pat Morita was when the made Karate kid. Pat was 52, Ralph is 53 

what was a 23 window deluxe doing on the Indy 500 start line?

WW1 enormous German airplanes


the above has 5 engines, 2 push pull units on the wings, and one on the center nose


See video of the top at http://strangernn.livejournal.com/901515.html