'I love looking for classic real books'

1957 BMW 503 hardtop

1967 Ford Falcon Sports Coupe (USA)

cars in Sturgis, South Dakota, early 1950s

 Present day view : 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FP95VRVgpkKrAwHU6

Air France poster from 1934 featuring a Dewoitine D.338

 See this earlier post from 2012

Bedford J6 LZI bus

 A still from the movie Operation Finale which is set in the early 1960s.

traffic in San Francisco, 1940s

 Colorized with added sound. It includes some steam train scenes.

1957 Standard 8 saloon

 

1939 American Bantam Roadster

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some of the dumbest drivers out there

They are probably not the dumbest drivers ever (a typical YouTube click bait heading) but some of them are bad.

'I like shopping for real books'

1948 Austin Sheerline

 

Good for going hunting and fishing in -- these days it would be a SUV and probably without the red hunting jackets and white britches.

Soviet steam railway art

A train leaves the Yaroslavl-Glavny station, info about the station is here

a tram from Newtown to Thorndon in Wellington NZ is seen in Riddiford St, 1963

This was the year before trams ended in Wellington.  The black smoke looks like it is from a Wellington Hospital furnace -- what was being burned?

For lots more, see the books Wellington: a Capital century and Wellington Transport Memories.

freight trains around Sheffield, England, 1966

It includes several scenes of road vehicles of the era. Steel is still made in Sheffield although the focus has changed to quality rather than quantity.

railway art set north of Birmingham on the Western Region line to Wolverhampton, 1950s(?)

We are big admirers of the talent of Britain's railway artists -- this is by John Austin.

Melborne swingdoor car electric multiple unit seen in 1972

A special train to Hurstbridge at a photostop between Eltham and Diamond Creek. For lots more, see the book Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand.

Soviet steam loco poster, 1920

Get ready for winter?

SNCB recruitment poster, Belgium

"You are 18 and you want a 6000 hp car"  The pic shows an AM80 class electric muilple unit from the early 1980s.

'Take the train' SNCF poster, circa 1970

 With a BB 9200 upfront. Of coursem it's a train "marchandises" but you get the idea.

'I definitely prefer good real books, not little devices'

the Denver and Rio Grande railroad map, 1903

Covering Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. Ultimately the DRGW became part of Union Pacific in the 1990s and some routes are no longer operated.

SNCB poster, Belgium

Age uncertain. "Nous avons rempli notre devoir pour votre sécurité, veillez-y aussi vous-même" = We have fulfilled our duty for your safety, please take care of it yourself too.

1959 Edsel Villager station wagon

1938 Talbot 110 convertible

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1936 poster for Reichspost bus sightseeing trips in Dresden, Germany

a 10-wheeler at Kingswear, England, art

GWR 4900 Class 4920 Dumbleton Hall leaving Kingswear (1983) Don Breckon art

1949 Diamond T 201

(Just Old Trucks)

'I like exploring what's in old real books'

a ship themed swimming pool

It looks expensive, but doesn't require excavation and concreting so would save on those normal costs.

tractor theme coffee maker

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3 small Austin convertibles

 From left: 1929 Austin 7; ditto; 1928 Austin 7. (Glenn Lovegrove pic)

2001 Devaux Coupe

"The Devaux Coupe is an Australian automobile built from 2001 and still is. Designed by David J Clash in Australia and amed after David's mother's maiden name, the car itself was inspired by coach builders like the Bugatti 1930s designs. The engine is 3.4 litre Jaguar / GM LS1 5.7 V8 -269 kW and 470 N·m of torque. It is not related to the DeVaux, an American built automobile of the 1930s. Devaux Cars Pty Ltd is based in Beaconsfield Upper, Victoria. Prices on application. There is also a spyder variant."

1977 Vauxhall VX

 

1965 Ford Econoline Pickup

 
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1950 Humber advertisement, Australia

German 2-10-0 with a passenger train

A class 50 of which 3164 were built as heavy freight engines between 1939 and 1948. Here is one on a Hof-Marktredwitz passenger train in Easter 1972.

coffee cups for classic VW fans

They almost look big enough for soup.
Available commercially.

'I like to read a real good book in a park in fine weather'

Great Western Railway ten-wheeler 'King George V' on a poster

Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class King George V is a preserved steam locomotive built in 1927.

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a steam-hauled SNCF passenger train on the Viaduc de l'Altier in 1956

This 257 meter long, 73 meter high viaduct built in 1869 is on the line from Saint-Germain-des-Fossés to Nîmes-Courbessac. Built from masonry it enabled the serving of l'Altier then in 1965 du lac de Villefort and the route départementale 901.

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1965 Cadillac Sedan DeVille

1952 Ford Prefect E493A

Seen in Kawakawa, north Auckland, NZ, from the look of it in the 1950s. (Auckland Libraries collection)

1976 Porsche 912E

 

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Louisville and Nashville poster for General Motors locomotives in F unit days