Retro Cool

ScottPara

Eric,

I saw this futureliner sell on TV a while back. Now thats an expensive bus.

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=1307&aid=53&pop=0

Scott

boofredlay

The Phantom Corsair is a six-passenger coupé prototype automobile built in 1938. Designer Rust Heinz planned to put the car into limited production. However, Heinz’s death in a car accident in July 1939 ended those plans, leaving the prototype Corsair as the only one ever built.

Alan Fraser

Oooooo! supercool.

Is it a boat? Is it a plane? Is it a train? No...it's a Scienenzeppelin (rail zeppelin)

For the first couple of seconds of this clip, you'd swear you were looking at a modern high-speed train.
Link.

Marian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbojet_train

Dave R

Talking about streamlined railway vehicles...

It's called Spooner's Boat.

TIG

That "Spooner's Boat" was very eco-friendly... but because it had limited seating and it couldn't 'tack', then the, 'The train for Holyhead is canceled because the prevailing winds from the West...' quickly made it unpopular with potential passengers...

Dave R

The original train on that line was also very eco friendly. Gravity was the propulsion toward Porthmadog and horses were used in the opposite direction. The horses got to ride on the train going down.

Alan Fraser

Looks like the photos were taken on the Britannia Terrace causeway just outside Porthmadog.
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=52.92176,-4.116794&spn=0.001688,0.005284&t=h&z=18

Dave R

Also known as The Cob.

boofredlay

Ironclads

@unknownuser said:

Ironclads were steam-propelled warships protected by armor plates. The rapid pace of change in the ironclad period meant that many ships were obsolete as soon as they were complete.

michaliszissiou

I'm not sure if this is the proper topic but... enjoy, scifi-retro-cult lovers
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=andromeda+nebula&oq=Andromeda+Nebula&aq=0&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=2315l2315l0l6960l1l1l0l0l0l0l250l250l2-1l1l0

And this one. A bit out of topic but I could not resist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXP4r8M3eGc

boofredlay

1954 Volvo TP21 “Sugga”

boofredlay

Either retro cool or retro frackin' crazy!

And this one I am sure everyone has seen before.

urgen

....

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=568_1233111054

mitcorb

Nice find, urgen:
A similar vehicle was built back in the 1960's for use in oil exploration in marshland. It had a large rectangular deck and long pontoon screws. I remember the demonstration film shot with an elevated camera, showing how it could easily move left, right, circles, etc.

Dave R

That old tractor is very cool. I'd love to have one. This winter it would sure churn up the mud, though.

Eric, that guy hanging from the beam looks like an early PhotoShop job.

michaliszissiou

Lovely tractor
Eric, both photos look like an early Ps work.
The first one, well known photo, it's obviously a montage. See environment around figures.
I won't discuss on the second one. Obviously a montage, once again.

boofredlay

I am not so quick to discount those images. I can't say for sure about the officer hanging on but surely the one by Charles Ebbets is authentic.

@unknownuser said:

This 1932 photo by fearless photographer Charles C. Ebbets shows workmen eating lunch on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the construction of Rockefeller Center. The photo was originally published in the New York Herald Tribune. Notice that the worker on the far right is holding what looks like a liquor flask. I guess it gets chilly up there.

@unknownuser said:

Were these men, whose feet were dangling hundreds of feet above New York’s streets, out of their minds? Because, really, who will eat lunch on a hanging girder and, consequently, who would be courageous enough to take a picture during the Rockefeller Center’s construction – on the 69th floor?

This legendary photograph which portrays 11 workers having a lunch break defines the career of an American photographer, Charles Ebbets. In 1932, Ebbets was the photographic director of the building’s construction. He took this famous photo in September of the same year and shortly after, it was published in the New York Herald Tribune.

This became one of the photographs that changed the world. It was adopted by pop culture and has so many versions to date. Some of these were humorous renditions featuring Hollywood icons, the Muppets, and even the casts from F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

Here are a couple more of Ebbets famous photos.