Vintage photos....Awesome!

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audifans

· #2,182 · Jan 22, 2012

1944 Toronto

They had to take snow out of the town on rail cars there was so much of it

no place to put it

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mavric_ac

· #2,183 · Jan 22, 2012

and Toronto drivers are horrible in the snow:laugh:

It's a national disaster here when we get 2" of snow

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lil' thumper

· #2,184 · Jan 22, 2012

More Toronto '77

Big Storm

1968

'88

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Jesarray

· #2,185 · Jan 22, 2012

The old cars in snow..... that looks like a challenge

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LT1M21Stingray

· #2,186 · Jan 22, 2012

mavric_ac said:
and Toronto drivers are horrible in the snow:laugh:

It's a national disaster here when we get 2" of snow

They are probably better than Vancouver drivers in the snow. :laugh:

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LT1M21Stingray

· #2,187 · Jan 22, 2012

Charles Sheeler.

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barry2952

· #2,188 · Jan 22, 2012

Mtl-Marc said:
Charles Sheeler.

Those are cool. Industrial photorealism.

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Ed52

· #2,189 · Jan 22, 2012

mavric_ac said:
and Toronto drivers are horrible in the snow:laugh:

It's a national disaster here when we get 2" of snow

No way...it's actually 1 cm that causes major havoc..body shops and tow trucks love it! The salters and sanders are nowhere to be seen till the snow stops.

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jeff james

· #2,190 · Jan 23, 2012

U.S. / Mexico Border crossing

'20's

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RabbitsKin

· #2,191 · Jan 23, 2012

I was thinking the same thing.

As a kid, we had:

-rear drive
-no ABS
-no traction control
-no airbags
-bias ply tires
-possibly retread snow tires, but not usually

And yet, the school buses still ran, the govt. didn't shut down, everyone got to work, etc. By comparison, a modern car is light years better in the snow, and safer too. But everytime we get an inch around here....mayhem..

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kowabonga

· #2,192 · Jan 23, 2012 (Edited)

In the ditch.... a perennial adventure for many

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kasbah

· #2,193 · Jan 23, 2012

Calvin Coolidge and his radio equipped Buick

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Lightnin'

· #2,194 · Jan 23, 2012

Sailing across the snow

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Massive Attack

· #2,195 · Jan 24, 2012

'49 Lincoln Cosmopolitan

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Blunderbuss

· #2,196 · Jan 24, 2012

Original "Roadmaster"

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vwlarry

· #2,197 · Jan 24, 2012

Massive Attack said:
'49 Lincoln Cosmopolitan

Trivia factoid about the Cosmos (I can't resist

): The "sad-eyed" look of these first all-new postwar Lincolns was the result of a decision made not by the designers, but by the accountants. The original proposal for this model carried concealed headlamps, behind body-colored doors, similar to the 1942 DeSotos. But, during the tooling-up period for the new car, when the location and mounting of the headlamps was locked in, the decision came down to cancel the hidden lights. So, the designers, in a burst of "necessity is the mother of invention"-ness, fashioned the chrome nacelles that are "frenched" into the fenders to replace the doors, and the sad-eyed Cosmopolitan was born.

BTW, the bottom photo is Ronald W. Reagan, with his first wife, actress Jane Wyman.

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barry2952

· #2,198 · Jan 24, 2012

vwlarry said:
Trivia factoid about the Cosmos (I can't resist ): The "sad-eyed" look of these first all-new postwar Lincolns was the result of a decision made not by the designers, but by the accountants.

Ugly bulbous car is ugly and bulbous.

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