Interesting and Funny Photos on Automobile Themes (21 photos)

Today we will look at photographs of both the Soviet and foreign automobile industry. What people drove in the early 20th century and a little later.





A woman charges her electric car in a garage. USA, 1912.

At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, electric cars were ahead of cars with internal combustion engines in their characteristics. They were quiet, easier to control. And the first car to exceed the 100 km/h threshold was an electric car.



Arnold Jones on a racing scooter. England, 1955. Arnold Jones rides the new Britax Hurricane Scooterette, which can reach speeds of 50 to 60 miles per hour (almost 100 km/h).





Brand new Buicks being transported from the factory on a car carrier. Michigan, 1928.



Amphicar at the start of the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Races, 1971.



Wandsworth garbage men on board a lorry taking them to work during a strike, 1924.

What's amazing is that already in the 1920s there were dump trucks with removable bodies.



Odesskaya Street. Moscow, 1975. On the left - Alexander Ivanovich Khlupnov at the wheel of his Bébé Peugeot.



Photographer: Boris Korzin

Auto repair shop in Los Angeles, 1932.



LuAZ-969M at the finished product site of the plant, 1980s

Roughly speaking, this is the first Soviet compact off-road vehicle with very good cross-country ability and quite budget-friendly.



President Lyndon B. Johnson at the wheel of an Amphicar at Haywood Ranch with Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Paul Glynn, April 10, 1965.

Lyndon Johnson is the 36th President of the United States of America. In both water and land, the Amphicar is steered by its front wheels, making it less maneuverable than a regular boat.



A prototype of the GAZ-66 truck during testing in the Karakum desert, 1962-1963.

After testing, which proved that the new model was one of the best cars in its class, its serial production began on July 1, 1964.



Motorcycles with a closed sidecar, used as taxis in the city of Brighton. England, 1930.



Taxi stand (ZIS) near the Kitaygorod wall. Moscow, 1950s.

Making a representative car into a taxi is of course a bad idea, the fuel consumption was serious. But in terms of social justice, everything is correct, if you have money, order a ZIS.

By the way, on June 21, 1925, the first state taxi company in Moscow started operating, sending at least 15 Renault KZ cars on a trip.

It would be great if some taxi aggregator restored such a ZIS and went out on orders.



Photographer: Emmanuil Evzerikhin

A Standard Eight and its driver, San Francisco, California, USA, 1920.

Notice how dirty the driver's turn signal is, or maybe he's just greeting everyone along the way.



Assembly of a ZiL-111 in one of the boxes of the ZiL Experimental Workshop. Moscow, 1959.

These cars were golden! The body parts from one car did not fit another, completely handmade.



Author: Valentin Khukhlaev.

Cadillac Coupe De Ville. USA, 1960.



UAZ T-46 on Taras Shevchenko Embankment. Moscow, 1973.

The last such experimental UAZ in Moscow successfully survived until 2013, although without attachments, but with rear lights on separate "legs" and not in the wall of the body. It was often parked on Vavilov Street in the area of ​​​​the 90s.



1960 Cadillac Eldorado.

Very beautiful with a laconic design and nothing superfluous. Motorists at all times loved to indulge their vanity.



The ZIS-110B command phaeton at the review of new fire-fighting equipment of the Moscow garrison in the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure, 1956-1957.

The ZIS-110B was based on the American Packard Super Eight of the 1942 model year. It is not entirely clear why the fire brigade would need such a premium vehicle.



Will A. Harris's motorhome from Texas, 1924.

The idea of ​​mobile homes at that time was completely different, this is clearly visible in the design of the motorhome.

A very interesting and multifaceted layer of automobile culture in the States, which is already a century and a quarter old. What kind of designs were not born.

This is a model from the 1920s. Still a self-built one. But already at that time the number of commercial manufacturers exceeded ten and began to publish a specialized magazine dedicated to mobile homes.



Dynasphere, 1930s. An unusual vehicle was patented by an inventor from England, Archibald Purves. When creating it, he was inspired by the drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci. The first assembled model was gasoline-powered and could reach a speed of 50 km/h. The engine and seat were located on the same frame and were inside a large wheel on wheels. You can find a video of this unusual monowheel being tested on the Internet.