Wasn't "Posi-traction" about the same thing which drove both wheels instead of just one?

>>23462 DAF variomatic gearbox for the use in cars of course. The design of the car was too dull to be a hit though

>>21952 Interesting design. Simple torque converters for a transaxle setup. What was this for?

World Famous Dutch design

In Europe everything is close. Maastricht is about 24km (14Mi) west of me, Maastricht to Berlin is 677km (420Mi).
So not that close ;)

>>21932 You think that might be close to Berlin?

1945

>>20929 it's a Statens Järnvägar E2 1040 from 1910, build by Nydqvist & Holm in Trollhättan, Sweden

http://www.zlsm.nl/mat_nl_stoom.php?matnr=LO03

Trans World Airlines which 78% of the stock was owned by Howard Hughes. The 3 section tail assembly looks like a constellation but may not be.

TWA?

>>20923 That looks like something Howard Hughes would have built. TWA?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOBm9Ni8_uo

build in 1934, it cost the government 1 million Gulden (Guilder) per km, hence the name: Het Miljoenenlijntje

>>20922 My grandfather was a steam engine mechanic. Diesel-electric engines put him out of a job but the railroad still kept him on as a watchman.

Elegance

fixing the locomotive light in 1955

UK Soldier playing

Congress of Freaks, 1924

the gun-cycle

instagram around 1918

Ziegfeld Follies, around 1920

more here (Dutch): http://www.endandit.nl/foto/111122036/revuemeisjes-rond-1920-nsfw

Joker's Boner

>>20698 Thanks, Grim. I love trying to figure things out. I know this site/information/pictures was limited. Guess we've done our best.

http://englishrussia.com/2012/09/25/the-first-russian-submarine-2/

Did you notice the goat skins around the oars? Rubber wouldn't be invented for another 100 years by Charles Goodyear.

I figure 3 maybe 4 men= approx 1200 lbs. Weights=75 lbs each (maybe)=450 lbs. That's only enough displacement to sink her possibly half way up a window and that's stretching it. It has a snorkle so that tells me water somehow covered the sub at least 7 to 8 feet.(no telling how air got in without some kind of pump) Subs today take on enormous amounts of water thru a ballast system and they're fully loaded with men, missiles, and other heavy steel shit. Ever see a houseboat floating on 55gal drums. So the question remains.

technically it dives not sinks but, as SeaFox says, ballast is everything!

So who's going to tell me how it sinks!

>>20641 and during the winter it would be filled with vodka, of course.

>>20663 and suspected witches too ;D

>>20662 Yep, that's ballast/counterbalance!
Also, people used to tie their horse to similar objects!

>>20641 Interesting. Haven't figured out what the 'bell shaped' objects are(front and side). Counterbalance weights maybe? Seems like it wouldn't sink either unless it filled up with water (no place for ballast tanks).

1st Russian submarine, 1721

My grandfather would disagree, goodgrief. He saw the SS round up the Jews & Roma in his town, later in 1942 he was forced to work in the east of Berlin, similar young men like him were forced to stay in Lagers (German for work camps). He witnessed the Allied bombing up close and personal, the way how he described how you could tell if a bomb would hit nearby is bone chilling. He saw buildings demolished and burning, corpses dismembered, crushed and burning too. He felt the shock waves of bombs even in the bomb shelters.

He saw how the Russian forces scouted out the Berlin suburbs. And was damn lucky he escaped on time, since the Russian wouldn't set them free but send them to the Gulag (he found that out later). Although he did say the Russian troops were friendlier than the Americans when it came to handing out cigarettes and chocolate ;)

I have a friend who comes from Kosovo, his 'liberation', his war was true too. At least in his mind. I have another friend who is Serbian, he wouldn't call it a war but a civil unrest..that had to be stopped. Well we all know how that turned out.

There is no true war, there is only war.

>>20586 "War has been softened today to the degree where the public worries more about the enemy than the home troops."

I don't. Most of us don't, not even the politicians here don't (some softies excluded). What they do see is the cost.
check rest here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States ;)

I care for every men & women who fights for our countries and I hope they all come home in one piece (both mentally and physically).
But if I see how much money is spend in Afghanistan to fight a war we can't win, I become frustrated. That money can be better spend to tackle the problems we have in our tiny country.

>>20517 Another comment on 'spoils of war' in that the article mentions a 'reaction today'. War has been softened today to the degree where the public worries more about the enemy than the home troops. Used to be the leaders' heads were carried around and displayed on tall poles. Destruction was so complete by Israelite armies women, children, men, livestock, homes, etc were leveled to the ground and destroyed so completely there was no history or evidence of them ever existing (no spoils were taken). I'm not in favor of any war whatsoever (mainly within the last 50 yrs they're all bullshit and drummed up for money and hate) but the troops can't tell the enemy from friendlys. Last true war was WW2.

American in China, 1971

>>20517 Good info. I can remember as a child there were a lot of those helmets around. Big damn things they were. One could cook a turkey in one.

>>20514 you're right:

"Victory Way" was set up after World War I ended—captured German war equipment was displayed on Park Avenue just near Grand Central to help raise money for the 5th War Loan. Each end of Victory Way had a pyramid made up of 12,000 German helmets. The helmets were supposedly going to be given away to large contributors to the 5th War Loan. One can only imagine the reaction if such a display of war souvenirs was put up today."

http://gothamist.com/2012/06/17/flashback_pyramid_of_wwi_german_hel.php

>>20508 There has to be more to it than that.

>>20507 uhm.. The Great War (WWI) ended?

>>20432 I didn't know the U.S. would display enemy helmets. What's the history/reasoning behind this?

>>20461 What year was that in? :)
Yes, remember it. It's now vintage!

Remember this??

>>20432 That is a considerable amount of helmets!

Pyramid of German helmets near Grand Central Terminal, 1918

I was going to say Christmas because it happened in other wars also but after noticing the Britt had been stripped (no belt or gear) and the German was fully equipped, I guessed POW.

>>20402 The Christmas truce, 1914
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

>>20405 but I think ur right

>>20402 Interesting. I'm thinking the Britt just became a POW

old meets new, Amsterdam 2012/1942

Krauts & Brits together in 1914 (WWI)

The fat lady at the Vermont State Fair was quite flexible back in the '40's!

Barker at the Vermont State Fair! Early 1940's!

SL

War Love

Current but vintage

New York, 1876

October salute to Vintage

>>20245 The word "test" is as scary as "oops" in an operating room.

>>20240 that was back in 19WTF..are you insane? You want me to stand here while you shoot at me, Screw that, find yourself a new friend buddy!

Brockton Mass, Dec. 1940!
Second-hand plumbing store!

Testing a bullet-resistant vest, date unknown. If anyone knows when

Tailgating at the Vermont State Fair!
Early 1940's!

>>20157 Very interesting picture, Mr. Grim. Seems some might be in disbelief while others in shock and ashamed. The common soldeir could have not known. I went to high school with a German lad named Rolf. His family came here when he was 4yrs old. He often said Hitler wasn't such a bad person, that he'd brought the country together and the Jews were never slaughtered in gas chambers. His parents lied to him and he wasn't too popular with his ideas. Easy to see the skepticism I see on the faces in this audience.

Nice pic of the Queen!

Translation: German prisoners of war, detained in a US prison camp, watch a movie about the (German) Concentration camps

>>20104 good memory!

>>20052 This particular picture I remember from a Playboy circa 1964.

find the rest here: http://imgur.com/a/tNI1U/all

Proper vintage! Probably the most beautiful thing ever made!

>>19818 Qualifies as "vintagey type stuff" though. Pretty sweet.

>>19813 mm..not really vintage, tis a kit car but based on the Lotus 7 (1957)

moar vintage fun!

Uploader still seems to be fuckd today

Uploader still seems to be fuckd today

>>19752 no, he's just quick!

>>19740 >>19741 >>19742 >>19743 >>19744 >>19745 >>19746 Having problems uploading there, OB?! :p

remember him?

>>19509 lol

Battersea Power Station, London, 6th November 1976

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

Dec. 1940!
Second hand plumbing store, in Brockton Mass.!

Friends like these

Ron & Doris

Adding Machines are Sexy!

Bunny

Ruffles

ENTERTAINER

ENTERTAINERS

I miss variety television shows (good ones that is)

Candy Cigs - enjoyed them as a kid, never did take up smoking.

>>18851 Great entertainers! Always willing to take a beating if it meant that they would get laughs out of it. And they always seemed to have plenty of hotties around them.

Speaking of great entertainers --->

>>18832 That's actually dessert! ;)

>>18822 Mmmm, Dinner served the way I like it!

Car race in New York, 1915

>>18817 Because, -Oink! ;D

>>18779 Aww! I was going to post that one! :D

>>18777 sexy!

Joanne Latham

Mary Murphy

Comparatively speaking

>>18665 Very cool CG work. Thanks for the link JC!

>>18696 Yes, I've done this before but typed it out...didn't do it properly, huh?

Chillin

Got Boner?

>>18693 goodgrief said:

The picture ( >>18629 ) of Tempest Storm...damned scary. I can remember seeing pointy tit-bras but never anything that bizarre.

dear goodgrief, to link a post >>18693

The picture (18629) of Tempest Storm...damned scary. I can remember seeing pointy tit-bras but never anything that bizarre.

Mr Balls. Thought you might find this link of interest...
http://www.ufunk.net/en/illustration/poker-pin-up-et-14-autres-illustrations-par-serge-birault-aka-papaninja/

>>18661 Ha! I remember those commercials!

Gee

Clint and Clyde

Tempest Storm

Sophia

Santo vs. The Martian Invasion

Sally

Kate

Jane

Trippy Furniture

Barbara Eden

Liberace

I NEED TO "GET DOWN" WITH SOME LUNCH!

Definitely not a glass of Kool-Aid

Maybe just a hat to keep the sun off your face?

Bernadette Peters

Or a cool drink from the hose?

Thank you for the demonstration, Mamie Van Doren

Hot enough for Ice Cream

Farrah Fawcett is happy that Fox might be her photographer

>>18600 "Cutie she wrote"

Don't forget the sexy hippy chicks like Debbie Harry -->

Young Curvy Brigitte Bardot --->

Angela Lansbury was a hottie! ;D

Shelly Winters, on the cover of Life!

Shelly Winters, Jack Palance!

The Elegance, that is Lauren!

Warren Beaty, Lauren Bacall, and Jack!

Voight, and his kid!

Sean getting some head off Bridget Bardot! :d

Sean Connery beefcake!

Marlon Brando!

Yoko, and why is Andy and John copping a feel of each other?!?!

The Douglas Boys!

JFK being a bad boy with Marilyn Monroe!

Jane & Freddy!

Frank, and that almost looks like Mia Farrow, but it couldn't be!

Eric Clapton, and his Mom!

Dennis Hopper!

Sonny & Cher, & Bob!

Bruce!

>>18552 make her look even more puny by standing in the background.
And I've seen them all! My dad is a huge fan!! Also of 007 ;)

Barbara Bach and Richard Kiel

ABBA

>>18538 A little closer, but I would never do a "smoke" ad! :p

More from Seafox's modeling portfolio

Daisy

Anne-Marie Mersen

Jumpsuits....I had one or two in my childhood.

Nat Wood

The Rocketeer

I liked the high waisted jeans

>>18479 I like how Santa's smoke forms a sexy silhouette.

>>18450 Ha!

>>18498 Sorry for not getting in on the guessing. Without looking, I would not have known that one. Cool info GG!

He was Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody Show.

In tha hood, yo!

>>18493 a Jap?

Damn! He smoked 'em all. No guesses on my little quiz yet?

>>18464 or this one?

>>18464 this one?

You read that big fat lie coke said (Grim's post) that kids fit in better in later life if the babies drank coke. Ha! You guys ever see that ad with Santa Clause smoking Chesterfield?

Did you know Bob Keeshan (Capt Kangaroo) was a Marine in the Pacific (WWII)? Without looking, do you know what his first role on television was?

>>18444 Yes, but that was a temporary gig, as I was trying to get into Playboy as one of their lucky lensers! ;D

really?

>>18433 Didn't you meet this guy too during your role as photographer of the stars?

>>18436 Yeah, well, remember in the 70's, I was a teen model, so I didn't look anything near that! :p

>>18433 With your modeling career (shown here) in the seventies, it sounds like a lot of celebrity doors were opened up.

>>18432 I got to talk with him once!

Captain Kangaroo

Welcome to the Zappa family room

The Unknown Comic is the stage name of Canadian-American actor and stand-up comic Murray Langston. He moved to the US as an entertainer and then lost his savings on a restaurant deal. When asked to appear on the Gong show he agreed with the understanding that he would wear a bag over his head as he was embarrassed to be on the show. He was finally revealed on an episode of Real People.

>>18407 No, he was some red-headed guy! He was in a low-budget cop/comedy movie!

When that guy finally removed the paper sack, wasn't it Howie Mandel?

Unknown Comic

Sally Field

>>18395 Evidently you did.

>>18393 I won't drag this on! It's Martha Stewart!
Who knew!? :p

>>18383 Leona Helmsley? Oh wait, she's dead.

>>18380 Yes, Grim, that fits nicely

>>18380 Yes she is! Pretty rich too! ;)

can this go here?

>>18379 she's still alive???

>>18313 Try again, smart ass!
She's pretty well known! Some say she did a bad thing a few years ago, and they punished her for it!

Foster sisters

>>18374 Don't think so. I think it is MM but not certain. June looks very different from what I can find.

Ertha Kitt had the best 'deep-throated' purr. Question, Oldballs, your comment #18361...is that June Allison? I also thought Michelle Phiffer (sp) filled out the cat uniform the best.

>>18372 Agreed on Julie Newmar. Anne Hathaway comes closest but she has to work to keep that beguiling smile hidden to pull off a catwoman of Julie Newmar's caliber. Definitely worth watching.

>>18288 Mmmmm, Julie Newmar as cat woman :)
Anyone else think Anne Hathaway as the new cat woman has a striking resemblance to Julie Newmar?
>>18338 Love Barbarella :D

Steve

Bat Girl

Loni

Susan Hayward

Priscilla Wright

nancy kovack

nancy kovack

Audrey Hepburn

Mamie Van Doren

Mamie Van Doren

Petticoat Junction

Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield

>>18311 Mother Fox?

Jayne Mansfield Eva Gabor

You'll never guess who this is!

Julie Newmar

Lee Meriwether

I remember this issue clearly

Bunnies