Sunday, August 29, 2010
Italy's National Automobile Museum in Turin (or Torino I'm not sure, I can't read Italian)
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the wood buck for an Alfa Romeo Guiletta Sprint
Fiat Turbina
the winner of the Paris to Peking race
If you are ever near Torino, it looks like a must see to me! http://www.museoauto.it/home/ Thursday, August 26, 2010
The biggest wagon I've ever seen! Might only have been a movie prop, because they blew it to smithereens
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Three axles... I've never seen one with 3 axles. This was in the movie "Duck You Sucker" with James Coburn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The Harlem River Speedway in 1902 (not a motorcar racetrack) was a carriage route, I'd love to drive along it (proabably doesn't exist anymore)
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Black and white from Shorpy, the color images are postcards from http://www.coffeedrome.com/bobspeed.html the 5th Avenue Stage in 1900, just a year or two before the horses became obsolete
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You wouldn't see these magnificent (if dangerous) horse carriages galloping up and down Fifth Avenue much longer at the time this photo was taken. 1900 was the year that the NY State Senate approved a bill allowing the Fifth Avenue Stage to run automobiles along the length of its newly-extended route.
By 1903, the horse carriages had been retired for "motor buses."
This was a relief to the residents of the apartment blocks near the "big stable" of the Fifth Avenue Stage located uptown. The stables took up the whole block between 88th and 89th Streets, were four stories tall, and housed over 250 horses. Its neighbors were continually filing complaints with the city because of the "noxious odors", as well as perpetual stamping and neighing of horses in their stalls, which made sleep impossible.
Commentary by Louise on http://www.shorpy.com/node/8588?size=_original
