Vintage Willys pictures

Tralehead said:
Diggin' those wheels! And the tires.... true pizza cutters!
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See https://www.oldwillysforum.com/foru...age-willys-pictures.2634/page-133#post-272142 for a slightly different version of the same Hi Rail image.

This pickup has the markings of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company (commonly referred to as the "New Haven Line").

The width of the rear axle on the pickups is wider than the front, so rims with different backsets (and perhaps narrower tires) were required to have the tire surfaces land on the rails.

"...Pizza Cutters"
New Haven is now considered the epicenter of the pizza culinary arts in Connecticut.

I like to imagine that that honor once belonged to New Britain Connecticut, when my Sicilian-born Grandpa, Vincenzo Bottiglieri, launched his pizza parlor in that city when gas rationing during the second world war starved him of the supply of fuel he needed to continue delivering the products of his large, well-established bread-baking and distribution business.

Of course Grandma (Conchetta) and Grandpa already had a terrific tomato sauce recipe.

Dad says business was slow at first, but the popularity of pizza cuisine caught on very quickly!
 
Joe B said:
See https://www.oldwillysforum.com/foru...age-willys-pictures.2634/page-133#post-272142 for a slightly different version of the same Hi Rail image.

This pickup has the markings of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company (commonly referred to as the "New Haven Line").

The width of the rear axle on the pickups is wider than the front, so rims with different backsets (and perhaps narrower tires) were required to have the tire surfaces land on the rails.

"...Pizza Cutters"
New Haven is now considered the epicenter of the pizza culinary arts in Connecticut.

I like to imagine that that honor once belonged to New Britain Connecticut, when my Sicilian-born Grandpa, Vincenzo Bottiglieri, launched his pizza parlor in that city when gas rationing during the second world war starved him of the supply of fuel he needed to continue delivering the products of his large, well-established bread-baking and distribution business.

Of course Grandma (Conchetta) and Grandpa already had a terrific tomato sauce recipe.

Dad says business was slow at first, but the popularity of pizza cuisine caught on very quickly!
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Loved the roadside Mom & Pop pizza places in CT when I was stationed there in 1970!! Les
 
No still healing up from the surgery, woke up in pain... need the meds, cant you tell... I get goofy with that stuff, still cant go out in the shop, things are boring right now, cant eat good food, teeth only open 3/8 of a inch, cant talk, made girlfriend mad...I am to fussy, she is right...But I am better and the doc said I am 100%... so what me worry...Phil:)
 
Blindmelon said:
A Jeep in a glider. Very cool. Those gliders were pretty scary.

The glider was an important auxiliary of the troop carrier version of the transport airplane. The Army had paid little attention to this sports aircraft until the Germans demonstrated its utility for military operations. The Army Air Force’s Material Division began study of the engineering aspects of the glider in February 1941 and initiated procurement of the gliders for training purposes in April 1941. Two months later, a design competition for cargo and troop-carrying gliders was held from which the Waco fifteen-place CG-4A Hadrian, emerged as the most satisfactory. Its procurement was undertaken early in 1942 and the entire glider program was steadily expanded as airborne operations grew in size and importance. Although the CG-4A was frequently criticized after it appeared in the fall of 1942, it proved itself in airborne operations in Europe and Burma, where it was towed by C-47s and C-53s. None of the other gliders developed during the war could be seriously considered as a replacement for it. It was made of wood and had no motor or armament and carried only one radio for communications. The CG-4A was the most widely used U.S. troop/cargo glider of World War II and eventually more than 12,000 were procured by the U.S. Army Air Forces. Fifteen companies, including piano and furniture
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The Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, Texas is a great museum on the WW2 gliders.

They trained at the air field there. It was interesting that most of the pilots that towed them in training were women.
 
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