Cars in the hood, '57 Buick

 Love the red wheels with the crazy flamboyant body lines...

Sidecar Sunday

Wilhelm Noll, with Fritz Cron, won the championship with their BMW outfit in 1954.

We used to make things in this country #343 Westinghouse Electric motors

 Photo from the early fifties, many women from the wartime were still employed winding armatures... 

I worked in the Hamilton, Ontario drawing office in the early nineties, designing an electric motor for automotive use while the production line machinery was being sold for scrap and only a few dozen people were left filling the last orders for large electric motors. Production had gone to Texas and Taiwan. 

Mid-engines in 1985

 DOHC 16 valve 1600 cc four is cool, but better to wait for the supercharged version available in 1988.

 And the competition; Fiat X1/9 and Pontiac Fiero.

Sculptural airplane

I'm trying to decide of this stylized aircraft is actually from the 40s or if it came much later- the materials look like the decor of the seventies. The lack of airfoil and propeller contours put me off and I guess the plane is an uncomfortable blend of Boeing 312 Clipper and Lancaster bomber morphing into a 50s airliner. 

 

Deteriorating house in Round Pond, Maine

2016

 

2020 The old Granite Step

2022

Very sad. More here.

Curtis A-8

 Introduced in 1929 in a call for a new attack plane, the aircraft was very advanced at the time, most other aircraft being biplanes. Thirteen went into service in 1932 but the type was quickly replaced by the radial engined version, the A-12 which was also obsolete before the end of the decade.

Suzuki GT500

Last gasp for the obsolete T500 Titan, the bike, largely unchanged in the previous 5 years, got a GT750 tank and (more or less) a GT380 disc brake front end for 1976. Definitely a stopgap as the next year the four stroke GS line was introduced. They keep turning up so they must have sold a few! This one was mostly original and had only 20,000 miles on the clock.

 

Wire Wheel Corp. wrench

 

ebay

Nice looking wrench to have hanging around but too expensive for that, and the 85mm or 3.35 inch size is pretty specific. The company was located across the street from the Pierce Arrow factory in Buffalo, I wonder if there was any connection.

Canadian Pacific Great Lakes Tour, 1939

 Artist, Norman Fraser