It’s time we dig a little deeper into our automotive advertising past, to the days when a European war had not yet hit our shores. I was only able to dig up a few ads from the 1939 model year, but what I find interesting about them is the fact that the Nash ad is […]
We know it’s been a couple of weeks since we returned from the Charlotte AutoFair (at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina), but magazine deadlines and photo shoots have kept this series of snapshots sitting in my files instead of cyberspace.
To lead things off, the above photo was snapped when we left the swap […]
Robin Hartford of Izmir, Turkey, recently sent us this photo taken from his days sailing the Mediterranean aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga CV-60. He notes the photo was taken in Izmir, Turkey, in 1974 or 1975, and he describes the scene:
At the time, downtown Izmir’s vehicles appeared to be right off the streets of […]