Gilmore's 1934 traveling neon sign fuel tanker (mack chassis)

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/471611.html#cutid1

Castrol vintage ads

A Motorama line up, GM's traveling road show of concept cars

Honest Charley ads for the catalog, 1963, 1963 1/2, 1968

Honest Charley's Speed shop... 1948 to 1990 Chattanooga Tennessee

For more than fifty years, Honest Charley and the distinctive trademark have been synonymous with quality styling accessories and superior customer service.

Founded in 1948 by Honest Charley Card in the foothills of the Great Smokey mountains in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Honest Charley's unique combination of automotive, performance and custom accessories and world wide distribution of the notably humorous Honest Charley catalogs served to establish Honest Charley Speed Shop as one of the most recognized names in the Automotive Aftermarket.

Honest Charley was one of the first advertisers featured in Hot Rod Magazine. The company was one of the first speed shops with coast to coast distrubution, and one of the first computerized automotive businesses.

Honest hisself was a fixture at both Daytona and at Indy for many years. Company expansion included Honest Charley retail stores and and distribution centers throughout Tennessee, Georgia and Florida supplying jobbers and dealers throughout the southeast.

In 1980 Honest Charley's Speed Distributors Warehouse was named SEMA's Warehouse Distributor of the Year.Honest hisself was the second inductee into the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) Hall of Fame. He was a lifetime member of USAC with member number 121 and an early member of the Indy 500 Old-timers Club.

In 1990, after more than forty years of industry innovation and dedicated service, Honest Charley discontinued operations at 108 Honest Street. However, the significance of Honest's legacy of always placing the customer first and his example of embracing all enthusiasts as family and friends continued to influence both the industry and all who knew him.

In 1998 the Honest Charley name and trademarks were acquired by the Coker Tire Company

http://www.honestcharley.com/

A Corvette built for Bill Mitchell (GM VP of styling staff)

It's my guess that if this turned up at auction it would fetch a million, or no one would want the ugly thing.

A couple cool old ads

Vintage Edelbrock advertising

see also: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/edelbrock-advertising-of-1952.html

Early Cobra advertising

reminds me of http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/imagine-carroll-shelby-handing-this.html

Edelbrock advertising of 1952

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Ain't this cool?!

Edelbrock 1951 ad

Eddie Meyer

So-Cal speed shop early advertising... humble beginnings!

Want to be a charter member of the NHRA?

Ever see these before?

Kelsey Hayes, a really old rim company. Reminds me of http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/ive-never-heard-of-these-holley-spark.html
and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/when-disco-was-fresh-and-keystones_25.html

I'm gonna bet you've never seen this ad before

Cool old VW adverts from Road and Track

1950's advertising for spark plugs, gas, and steering units

Saturday Evening Post, 1954 advertising

ever get the feeling that false advertising wasn't something that companies were sued for in the 1950's?
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/sets/1539362/ via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/collections/72157600024877117/

Gonna find me a cat, a mean one with all it's claws

VILE BEAST. You start squawking before the sun even rises. You steal our sesame seed buns and fries. But worst of all, you unload your lunch on our cars. No sooner have we finished detailing than the fruits of our labor are soured thanks to your shameless form of self-expression. It's rude and disrespectful. So to all you birds reading this: watch your bony little backs. We're hitting up the animal shelter. Gonna find us a cat. A mean one with all its claws. Tell your friends.
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