Old Ford pics

[John Palmer]

I think by the late 1960's the factory advertised horsepower ratings were all over the board. 

Insurance companies were basing the insurance premium's on horsepower.  We saw the same thing happen in the motorcycle industry.  The high performance crotch rocket models became "very expensive" to insure for the owners to obtain the financing necessary to purchase a new bike.

I'm certain that the NHRA also had a impact on why the manufacturer would understate the advertised horsepower for the then popular stock and superstock classes.

John

[hemidave]

 Peter Lorrie

[djfordmanjack]

Peter Lorre was born Peter Loewenstein in the Austrian empire in the early 1900s. That neat family pic in front of the 57 made me do research and it is tragic to learn what happend to them, especially seeing Peter's pride with his daughter. the couple disbanded after 12 years in 1962, Peter died from a stroke in 64, Annemarie Brenning in 1971 from alcohol abuse and their daughter Cathy in 1985 age only 32 from diabetes.
Still the pic with the 57 seemed to be a time when they were happy.

Peter Lorre is one of my father's favorite actors, so I can't even remember a time when I did not hear or know about Lorre. Also interesting to see him next to a 1935 Ford cabriolet. Wonder if this was his private car or just a szene from a movie.

[rmk57]

  I always thought he was of Hungarian decent. Laszlo, his given first name is about Hungarian as it gets.

[mustang6984]

Wife didn't look all that happy in the pic. Kinda scowling.

[hemidave]

 I wonder if that's my Sunliner.....LOL

[CobraJoe]

  I always thought he was of Hungarian decent. Laszlo, his given first name is about Hungarian as it gets.

"Peter Lorre (born Laszlo Lowenstein; 26 June 1904-23 March 1964) was a Hungarian-American actor of Jewish descent. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920's and early 1930's"
Lorre left Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power. His second English-language film, following the multiple-language version of M (1931), was Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) made in Great Britain. Eventually settling in Hollywood, he later became a featured player in many Hollywood crime and mystery films. In his initial American films, Mad Love and Crime and Punishment (both 1935), he continued to play murderers, but he was then cast playing Mr. Moto, the Japanese detective, in a B-picture series.

From 1941 to 1946, he mainly worked for Warner Bros. His first film at Warner was The Maltese Falcon (1941), the first of many films in which he appeared alongside actors Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet. This was followed by Casablanca (1942), the second of the nine films in which Lorre and Greenstreet appeared together. Lorre's other films include Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). Frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner, his later career was erratic. Lorre was the first actor to play a James Bond villain as Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale (1954). Some of his last roles were in horror films directed by Roger Corman.

[mustang6984]

Thanx Joe.

[CobraJoe]

My pleasure......   

[CobraJoe]

You can see Gene Snow's Dodge Dart, Rambunctious, in the background. He was a pioneer in the funny car field, but a man with a disturbing past.

[mustang6984]

Disturbing is putting it mildly...

[CobraJoe]

[djfordmanjack]

that is both correct. Hungary was part of the Austrian empire until 1918. Emperor Franz Josef was both the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. So Loewenstein was born Hungarian in the Austrian Empire. But he wasn't even born in Hungary, but in a region that now belongs to Slovakia. The shifting of borders and states and ethnical groupes in Central Europe is very complicated over the past centuries. It can be very confusing. Ferdinand Porsche f.e. was Austrian (not German), but born in nowadays Czech Republic. Nikola Tesla was Austrian but born from a Serbian family in Croatia. 
Empires like ancient Rome or later the Austrian Empire were not so much about ethnical or national by language. but more of political and economical influence. I believe the Austrian empire had several dozens of 'accepted' languages.
I don't mean this as a political statement at all, which we don't want to discuss on this board. It's just highly interesting to learn about peoples background like Lorre/Loewenstein. I am sorry I missed the part with him being born Laszlo, my bad.

  I always thought he was of Hungarian decent. Laszlo, his given first name is about Hungarian as it gets.

[hemidave]

1959

[Jeff Norwell]

Gene Snow....Pedophile..... That dick head should burn.