A variety of interesting car stuff, on tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com

Imagine, how crude a car has to be to think that 2 hundred miles is an incredible achievement

Air pump, relevant tools permanently attached, and a rack to hang the bike while working on it. Installed on campus at the University of Virginia.

 A 1920's photo of a sign pointing the way to the Lincoln Highway

 Reason that big wheel is called a Penny Farthing

And the pain in the butt that a rental car can be.
these and more mixed in with an ecclectic and informative collection http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/

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Radioactive spark plugs... for the extra punch your engine needs

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/

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Spare car parts art, cool stuff, innovative

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Ruxtons, quite the colorful way of calling attention to a failing car company during the depression, trying to increase sales

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Gilmore's 1934 traveling neon sign fuel tanker (mack chassis)

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/471611.html#cutid1

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1909 Grand Palais Air Show in Paris

 I have had the top photo so long I don't know where it came from, the bottom two are from http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/409946.html#cutid1

above image Robert Esnault Pelterie Monoplane at Exposition, 1909 from http://edwardianera.tumblr.com/

to look through a book online of the photos below

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8438642s.r=1910+Salon+de+l%27automobile.langEN 

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1st scheduled autogyro route in the world, 1939 airmail from the roof of the Philadelphia post office to Camden NJ, 10 times a day, 6 days a week

Eastern Airlines was headed by Eddie Rickenbacker  http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Eddie%20Rickenbacker

found on

http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/?skip=190

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P51 Mustang field service reference manual... its astonishing what you can stumble across at the swap meet, selected interesting pages

 

 

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Midco Magneto generator and Excelsior motorcycle

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harley drawings from 1918, some with sidecars

 I can't see much that is different in the above and below, just the luggage rack over the back wheel

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