Showing posts with label brass era. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brass era. Show all posts

Beautiful advertising from 1909 and 1928, from Moment D' Inspiration

See galleries of far more of this small sample at the very cool blog http://momentdinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/11/old-american-cars.html

Cool old cars

the Miss Houston is featured in a gallery about the Houston Speedway in the 1920s http://www.sloanegallery.com/houston_speedway.htm Stanley Steamer that didn't need a restoration The front of a Packard dealership 1912 Moon Raceabout Speedster, see a whole gallery of one at http://www.flickr.com/photos/94957089@N00/3607440577/ The building of the Nurburgring, photo from http://

The winner of the 1907 Paris to Peking endurance race

The 1907 ITALA mod. 35/45 HP won the prize of a magnum of Mumm champagne. The race went without any assistance through country where there were no roads or road-maps. For the race, camels carrying fuel left Peking and set up at stations along the route to give fuel to the racers. The race followed a telegraph route so that the race was well covered in newspapers at the time. Each car had one

A couple of brass era vehicles from the movie "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday" a Lee Marvin movie

Don't know what they are specifically, but the movie was fun to watch, and the antique cars were frequently on screen.