1920's Cigarette card series on motorcycles gallery at Moment D' Inspiration

see the whole gallery at http://momentdinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/09/image-cards-cigarettes.html

Pinups by Gil Elvgren

for a full 100 photo gallery: http://www.dieselpunks.org/photo/albums/pin-up-girls-volume-1

Renard Daimler Road Train - built for the world road transport market in the early 1900's

This probably qualifies as the first ever semi tractor trailer.

from http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2010/03/awesome-ancient-aussie-renard.html#more

Heavyweight Champion of the World 1910-1915, Jack Johnson

1912 Vanderbuilt cup milwuakee wisc is what the photo was labeled

Looking like after a race, only because of the number on the radiator and the missing fenders

photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927

Jack also founded the famous Cotton Club

Early Harleys and Indians

The above Indian riders were relay riding from New York to San Fran, and I notice there are no front brakes. read about it here: http://www.shorpy.com/node/9225?size=_original

from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=920

Really old lifesavers cars

from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=920

John's car, "built to be a kid's hot rod", last licensed in 1946

1899 Peugeot De Dion Bouton was at the Encinitas 3rd Thursday of the month cruise

Getting my day started out right, 1970-71 vintage drag racing

GM in San Paulo, early 1920's perhaps

http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/feliz-aniversario-chico/ gotta love Nik, he finds the coolest stuff!

Sam Bennett in 1921, Sidnaw, upper penninsula of Michigan, a great place for outdoorsman who trap, hunt, and fish

from the http://kentonhistoricalsociety.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=3188241

Sam is my great-great uncle, and I had no idea there was a photo of him, much less one in the internet that I would stumble across.

He was a trapper for the state of Michigan, which is confirmed by the 4 wolf furs and the front license plate on that car. (Mich dept of conservation 8)

Sam lost an arm, it may have been WW1, and was setting his traps with only one arm/one hand ... what a difficult thing that must have been to do, I've set traps too, they aren't easy, and they are really damn dangerous.

Nik finds cool stuff, that is what he does

the original is bigger and I cropped out a telephone pole, but just look at the abandoned gas station, in 1937. Ain't that just Hank Williams "So lonely I could die" lonely? Via: http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/ who found it on Shorpy... awesome website of old photographs.

Looks like two Willys Knight tiny cars... not 1927-28 whippets, wrong grill, but I'm not sure what model

via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4927350

cool old tow trucks

I love the COE look

both of these last two are convertible cars that were converted, wouldn't that blow your mind if you came across it on the street today?

via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4927350