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Vintage vernacular vehicle photos

David Pescovitz at 10:23 am Wed, Jan 30, 2013

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My friend and noted vernacular photo collector Randall de Rijk turned me on to the excellent blog "Darrin's Car Photos" that consists solely of great vintage snapshots of various vehicles!

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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The modern aerosan in the top picture is pretty cool.
I have seen a number of aerosans from WW2 that the russians used to good effect during the winter.
http://www.gyrofrog.com/ Gyrofrog

Man, that Davis (lower photo) was rare. (Wikipedia says only 15 to 17 were built.) Only reason I knew what it was, is that it was in a book called Auto Album that I had when I was a kid.