the only motorized vehicles in the 1933-34 Chicago "Century of Progress" exhibition were Greyhound tour busses

GMC T26 trucks, and the bodies were made by the Yellow Truck and Coach company http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/y/yellow_coach/yellow_coach.htm

Learned about these from http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/511453.html

Car Nut 1 Blogspot has some cool photos!

1957 Vette barnfind

1926 Rickenbacker with Woodlight headlights, the first I've ever seen with them.

all from http://carnut1.blogspot.com 

post WW2 photo of Tokyo citizens using war damaged buses for temporary living residences

Disabled buses that have littered the streets of Tokyo are used to help relieve the acute housing shortage in the Japanese capital on October 2, 1946. Homeless Japanese who hauled the buses into a vacant lot are converting them into homes for their families. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) via http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/world-war-ii-after-the-war/100180/  thanks Mike!

Buses galore at Merseyside Transport Trust open day

THERE'S an old proverb that says "Never turn down a chance to get your MG in front of some old buses". Probably.

Joking aside, if you're into your old buses as much as your automotive antiques then this event would probably have been up your street. The Merseyside Transport Trust keep a selection of buses going back decades at their hangars in Burscough, and although they're usually kept under wraps just once in a while they venture out into the public eye, giving passengers rides around the country lanes of West Lancashire.

 

Not only did visitors get the chance to check out gems like the Leyland Olympian, but the trust's members managed to incorporate another of my passions - beer - into the day, by coming up with the ingenious idea of offering rides out to several of the nearby pubs using their exhibits!

If you're a fan of buses - and there are plenty of petrolheads who are - you might like to check out their website or send an email to enquiries@mttrust.co.uk

P.S: I was also approached, as I was taking pictures of my MGB GT, by a man from the North West Museum of Road Transport. The St Helens museum is holding a Classic Car Spectacular on Sunday, August 12 at their base in the town's former bus depot, between 10am and 4pm. For more infomation or to enter your classic send an email to matt@nwmort.co.uk or call 01744 451681.

All types of interesting things show up in the parking lots, it's worth looking through to see what showed up there as well as in the show area

 Either Chip Foose drove in, or too many people are copying his style

Love it, looks like, an old bus mated with El Toro Loco the Monster Truck

Bart has a cool site about Samba's, and most other VW cool stuff at Barts57.blogspot.com

this is just the booklets that came with his '57... lucky guy! http://barts57.blogspot.com/2011/03/1957-manual-for-my-57.html the service manual, the VW dealership map, and the owners manual

Foose and Overhaulin transformed a 23 window VW... and it looks great.

A couple things that Chip and company did, they removed the great big VW from between the headlights (not a good idea) and relocated the turn signals below the headlights (great idea!)

Really great extensive gallery at http://www.oldbug.com/foosebus.htm

Bitchin bus and matching trailer found on Studio44 werks, and a really cool matching lamp

http://studio44werks.blogspot.com/

the 1920s photos from fuckyeah1920s.tumblr have such a wide variety, from celebrities as Laurel and Hardy, Harold Llyod, Buster Keaton, and Babe Ruth, to kids with pedal cars (it's like Shorpy!)

The wonderful Laurel and Hardy

League against indecent bathers.... really. Some people had nothing bettter to do than interrupt total strangers enjoying a swim.

I've never seen a tool like that. Obviously there were better wrenches at the time, but I'm glad to have found this photo of an unusual obsolete tool

Motocycle chariots!

 1922 French Gran Prix

 Buster Keaton and Marion Mack in the movie "The General"

 At Western and 11th in 1925 Los Angeles

 Emergency landing in Teheran 1927

 Harold Llyod in "Hot Water" 1924

Jack Donovan in 1928 with his DeLage and the house that was the result of a huge Hollywood scandal (a level equivalent to George Clooney sueing Jennifer Aniston)

Jack Donovan was an actor, producer, architect, yachtsman, lifesaver, civil plaintiff, criminal defendant, bon vivant, playboy, mama’s boy, father, illegal landlord, spousal abuser, aviator, mental patient, perpetual litigant, animal lover, cafe proprietor, writer, Chairman of the Santa Monica Red Cross

this auction page is part of a huge 4 part report about the Donovan - Murray scandal and lawsuits at  http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/the-houses-that-jack-built-part-i/

 

 

 Santa drives a Packard! Macy's in New York 1925

Marion Davies, 1924 "The Cardboard Lover" what in the heck is she sitting in? That is TINY

Marion Davies again

 Lemonade and sandwich vendor

 Look at the incredible reflection in that cars paint.. wow

Pretty cool to find a photo of the Spirit of St Louis getting lettered

 Babe Ruth

 Wow, luxury bus!

 That is one monster huge car!

 A ford dealership and gas station... the sign over the rear bumper says, "Gas strictly cash"

 San Francisco parade, looks like Model T's under the facade of early tanks... pretty cool!

 Mary Astor on the set of the movie "Sea Tiger" 1927

 terrific dairy delivery trucks... lettered Cab A and Cab B... notice the small opera side windows to the right of the drivers side curtain window, and no side mirrors

 road sign painters

 Buick sales and service

that car's hood is as high as his shoulder!

 I've seen huge front shocks like that before on Grahams

 Been a while since youve seen dog carts I bet

 Citreon

 trying to compete with horses on the jump track?

 Should need no caption to tell you what that streamliner is... looks longer than a bus from the same year

 Some early kind of carnival ride I think

Miss Bradley has her very own pet deer. Beverly Hills, 1927

  all of these are from http://fuckyeah1920s.tumblr.com/