Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2014

this would be a cool thing to get for your late 60's early 70's car.. Panasonic AM FM 8 track


The unit was a 3 piece... it came with an insertable module for FM, one for AM, and pull out the module to play 8 track tapes.

Found on http://phil-are-go.blogspot.com/

Thursday, July 3, 2014

The most expensive motorcycle sold at auction, 1910 Winchester, $580,000


Found on http://thevintagent.blogspot.com.br/2014/04/the-worlds-most-expensive-motorcycle-or.html

Winchester, the legendary name in American guns, and for a very short while (1909-11) sold motorcycles under its badge, using single-cylinder Marsh-Metz engines. The Winchester was clutchless with a flat belt direct-drive, and a total-loss battery ignition; motorcycling at its most basic, yet still selling for a very expensive $160.

 Apparently around 200 Winchesters were produced under contract by the Edwin F Merry company in San Francisco,

Friday, June 27, 2014

wow, those drive wheels


Camden et Amboy railways, 1850

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/?fref=nf

That's a Crampton locomotive...the idea was to put the drive wheels behind the firebox so the builder could use larger wheels, and lower the center of gravity. (thanks to Jeff F)

Monday, June 9, 2014

Motorcyke. Yes, I spelled it correctly, the same way Harley Davidson did on these roughly 100 year old bicycles













Notice how the seat stem is reverse-able? Perhaps these are different stems, etc, but the concept of a reversible stem for the change of leg length is pretty cool


Tuesday, May 27, 2014

1902 Prescott Style 10c, steam powered









notice in the above photo the tank level tube isn't in a location the driver can see, and in the below photo there is a mirror by the gauges for the driver to see the tube in the reflection