When he goes down, he goes down in flames! Is the old punchline, and Batten seems to have stuck to his car, safely piloting it back to the pits so no one got hurt by an uncontrolled race car on fire

http://zona-rapida.blogspot.com.es/

it's been a long time since I've come across a cool roller coaster to share, but check this out, the first suspended roller coaster, 1902

Bisby's Spiral Airship built in 1902 had cars that were suspended underneath a track and could swing freely. The cars travelled up an inclined track, and then descended along a spiral track around a steel frame tower before returning to the station. This is commonly acknowledged as the first suspended roller coaster type ride.

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5102941&postcount=2308

a very cool looking Goodyear gas and tire station, looking south on Los Angeles Street (now Anaheim Blvd.) from Cypress Street after the 1938 flood

I don't think I've ever seen a close up of a Goodyear gas station, http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8199q44r/?brand=oac4

visible stores and businesses include he Goodyear Service Station, Cone Bros. Chevrolet Sales and Service, Van Buren Furniture, Riutcel-Smith Furniture Company, F.P. Robins Signs and the Pickwick Hotel.

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5101077&postcount=2284

before the car heater, the Dorchester Pottery Footwarmer (a ceramic hot water bottle basically)

http://www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org/blog/?p=2784

yellow headlights.... it started in WW2 as a way to differentiate French cars from German cars

The main objective of the yellow lights (used first in military vehicles) was not to be such an easy target.

The Government enacted a law on the 3rd of November, 1936 stating that all vehicles put into production in 1937 are required to have yellow headlights. The French being who they are, didn't abandon these headlights until 1993 when forced by the European Unions conformity standards.



http://www.french-cars-in-america.com/why-did-france-have-yellow-headlights

a moment to show appreciation for horse power. Keep your cooling system full.

The ASPCA, founded in 1866 spread to many American cities, and lobbied on behalf of draft horses. Photo of a downtown fountain for thirsty horses c.1922

https://www.facebook.com/neatoldphotos.m.lucas2/photos/a.400823796751664.1073741829.400758923424818/699017866932254/?type=3

Not where you thought that was going I bet. But I like horses, and appreciate that most of the human history of moving things until about 1830, was done by horses, donkey, mule, camel, etc. The 4 legged, broom tailed, straw burner. (As Louis L'Amour called them) 

An Indiana truck in the early 1918 before the O'Shaughnessy Dam was constructed in the Hetch Hetchy Valley

https://www.facebook.com/neatoldphotos.m.lucas2/

a ride on the elevated street cars, New York City, 1919

Thanks Doug!

Sampan, because when you're in the Hawaiian paradise, you don't call a jitney a jitney

Jitneys started in about 1914, and the Sampan in 1922.

Truth is the same no matter where you find it, and in 1922, the cost of a taxi was obviously too much, and a Hilo taxi driver by the name of Fukumatsu Kusumoto wanted to provide lower, cost-effect means of public transportation for Big Island residents and visitors, mainly Hilo wharf and it’s surrounding areas.

He hit up several of his taxi driving friends, but no one was interested in his idea. Single handed, he was able to obtain enough funding and constructed the first sampan converting a Ford Model T into a multi-passenger jitney back in 1922.

Vehicle modifications started just behind the drivers seat, the back was rebuilt with wooden seats along both sides on an extended frame. Mr. Kusumoto’s single venture brought instant success as the owner of the Hilo Sampan Company. the Sampan Bus became a big hit with sugar plantation workers and their families.

In the 1930s and 1940s there were over 200 Sampans running routes around the Big Island of Hawaii, most casually cruising to pick up riders, and just like Uber or Lyft, delivering them where they wanted to go, picking up other riders along the way

There is one in San Diego that I've ran across through the years, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/09/this-might-be-only-vehicle-ive-posted-3.html

http://alohavalley.com/hilo-sampan-bus/

the first 2 and a 1/2 minutes have some great vintage firefighting vehicles from the 1890s through 1920s