Eldon's San Draggin' - a dually sand drag dune buggy made it on the cover of Popular Hot Rodding, plus The Milk Wagon, and another goofy show car

Gasser - roadster Fairlane

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1119838384829443/

Origin of Pirelli tires was in telegraph cables!

Giovanni Battista Pirelli founded his company in Milan in 1872.

For almost two decades, the company specialized in fabrication of telegraph cables.

 Its first tires, for bicycles, appeared in 1890; its first automobile tires, in 1901.

https://simanaitissays.com/2016/12/12/aviation-sells/

Armour and Company, founded in Chicago in 1867, had this clever ad for it's byproduct laundry detergent

Armour and Company was a meatpacking firm that, used every last part of the animals to max out profits and reduce it's disposal bills. 

Among its animal byproducts were glue, oil, fertilizer, hairbrushes, buttons, oleomargarine, pharmaceuticals and, shown here, White Flyer Laundry Soap.

https://simanaitissays.com/2016/12/12/aviation-sells/

The airplane is a Bleriot XI, and had a particularly cool landing suspension 

the Butterfly Six, from Brewster Wisconsin... in Harold Lloyd's "Hot Water"

an elaborate gag, since they had to make the radiator grill badge, and an owners manual

from the 22 minute start point to 31:30 in the below movie

1959-61 Gran Prix car cutaways drawn by Bob Thatcher in R&T, May and June 1961,

1955 Ferrari 555 Super Squalo

1959 BRM

In May and June, 1961, Road and Track published a series of cutaways of 2.5-liter Formula One cars by a talented artist named Bob Thatcher.

1959 Cooper Climax

1960 Reventlow Scarab

1958 Ferrari Dino

1959 Aston Martin

Read about them at https://simanaitissays.com/2017/03/07/grand-prix-cutaways-the-2-5-liter-era-part-2/
For more see https://simanaitissays.com/2017/03/06/grand-prix-cutaways-the-2-5-liter-era/

your coffee and donuts movie... skip to the 2:40 minute mark to begin

it even has the obligatory steam locomotive crashing into a car stuck on the tracks scene

then skip to 23:20 for a terrific gag of how he got his girlfriends audience to show up, it's a seriously brilliant bit of comedy

Or just for that bit, see this video instead:



at the very end is an out of control double decker Fageol bus scene that starts around the 48:25 minute

Harold Lloyd, silent film era slapstick star

tire advertising posters on Antiques Roadshow were found in a garage, which was scheduled for demolition

the artists are Frank E Dodge, and H Peck

Watch this video at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/17/boston-ma/appraisals/boston-automobile-posters-ca-1905--201201A50/

thanks to Andrew, Jeremy, Kurt, Milton, and Dan!

Once I get the tires replaced on my Dodge that basically were on too long, and began to fall apart, I will finally replace the gas tank level sending unit, and be able to tell how much gas in the tank for the first time since buying the car!

Just keeping track of the miles since topping off the tank has done me well for all these years, (I got the R/T in 2002) but it's no fun not knowing how much is left in the tank.... it's sucked. 

Bruce Halle, owner of Discount Tire, has the world's most comprehensive collection of tire posters

Not only is Discount Tire one of Arizona's most profitable businesses, it's also owned by billionaire Bruce Halle, one of the state's most prominent forces in the arts. It's annual revenue is about 4 billion, and it all started from a single store that Halle opened in 1961.

Growing up in the great depression era, he delivered newspapers, cut grass and even dug graves to help support his family. After serving in the Marines during the Korean war, Halle got a degree in business administration from East Michigan University.

After college, Halle had an unsuccessful partnership in a tires and auto- accessories business that was dissolved in 1959.

He struck out on his own and opened the first Discount Tire store in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1960. According to company history, he chose the name Discount Tire because "discount" implied a deal, and "everybody wants a deal."

He had an inventory of six tires (four of which were retreads) and a portable air tank, which necessitated running back and forth to the local gas station to fill up the tires he sold.

Halle slowly built up sales and, after a few months, was able to spend $400 on a used air compressor.

He faced considerable competition from major tire dealers such as Firestone, General and Goodyear. But he offered lower prices and superior customer service, and he quickly developed a following of loyal customers.

One service was to remove snow tires in the spring and remount them in the fall for free, a service his competitors charged for. He reasoned that once he had customers in the shop, he would have a chance to sell them new tires.

Early on Halle figured out that customers want to get out of his store quickly—they have more important things to do—and they’d like the bathrooms to be clean if they need to make a pit stop while waiting for a tire change.

When he opened up outlets in Arizona he offered free flat repairs and encouraged store managers to give away tires to down-and-out customers. His theory was that they would tell their friends and return as lifetime customers when they got back on their feet.

Today his Bruce T. Halle Scholarship program allows every child of a Discount Tire employee the opportunity to attend college.

What started 30 years ago as a chance purchase of a tire poster flourished into a collection of more than 360 pieces—and added a collection curator as part of the Discount Tire staff.

Six Tires, No Plan: The Impossible Journey of the Most Inspirational Leader That (Almost) Nobody Knows--the biography of billionaire Bruce Halle

https://www.forbes.com/profile/bruce-halle/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/03/19/how-to-get-rich-without-being-a-tech-titan/#e76085445c99

The collection is even in a book, Posters from the Collection of Discount Tire, by Susan Driver,
illustrating 264 of the many posters that were produced advertising tires (for bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles) in the nineteenth century and early 20th century.

"We have a couple Toulouse-Lautrec posters; Leonetto Cappiello, the father of modern advertising. And, of course, we have Marius Rossillon, who went by the name of O'Galup and started doing the big Michelin posters of Bibendum"

http://archive.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/01/02/20110102good-service-still-drives-Discount-Tires-0102.html

https://simanaitissays.com/2014/04/07/round-black-sticky-and-artful/

How did I come to learn about this?

Professor Pau who did the 5 volume thesis on Michelin's Bibedum advertising just told me that his whole thesis is now in the process of being translated by a professional translator. This project is made possible for the financial support of Bruce Halle, and the translated extensive collection and analysis of Bibendum is goign to be completed in late 2017 and be available online through the  University of Barcelona! Great news!