
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Marlene Dietrich was a tough one... she brought a tank to a gun fight

A LOT of Americans made automobiles in 1900-1930, here are a some, a couple of them I've never heard of











All of these are only a fraction of the interesting defunct manufacturers on the Jalopy Journal thread that challenged car guys every where to post photos and information about car makers that went out of business long ago: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397594
BBNH tumbler has a couple of cool images I felt the need to share


All via: http://bbnh.tumblr.com/
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beautiful engine,
celebrity,
drag racing,
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Packard
Hugh Chisholm's 1934 woody, more than one US President are connected to it and Hugh Chisholm... because he also had a 243' yacht in the DC area
Hugh was very very rich, and had a very very big yacht built... so nice that when the Presidential yacht USS Potomac was deemed unfit for open water duty, the US Navy decided the next best yacht (or the best, as we just read that the Potomac wasn't in good condition) was Hugh's private yacht that had been custom built for him by the Bath Iron Works (same shipyard that built submarines for the US Navy)
" President Truman spent more time aboard than any president spent on a presidential yacht "
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/pg-56.htm
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Woody
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