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This old Nash automobile has been layed to rest behind the farm barn in Southern Illinois near the town of Carmi. Not sure of the year but it's something in the 40's.
Châssis n°GHNL/91330
Moteur 4 cylindres en ligne 1600 cm3
2 carburateurs SU
Boîte 4 vitesses
Option luxe avec roues en tôle
Pas facile d'enlever la capuche...
Petit essai d'autoportrait avec mon Cactus V5 entre ombres et lumières. Traitement effectué directement sur le K5
Auto patrulla de una Unidad de Protección Ciudadana perteneciente a la PolicÃa Preventiva de la ciudad de Mexico.
Villa Epecuén, Argentina.
Villa Epecuén fue un pueblo turÃstico argentino, localizado en la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, construido a orillas del lago Epecuén, con un nivel de sal 10 veces mayor a la del océano.
En 1985 una inundación provocada por una creciente del
lago, rompió el dique que protegÃa la villa, y el agua comenzó a inundar todo el lugar.
Para el año 1993, el nivel del agua alcanzaba los 10 metros.
25 años después, el agua comenzó a retroceder, y las ruinas de la villa comenzaron a resurgir.
Villa Epecuén was a tourist village located in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina.
Built in the shores of Lago Epecuén, a lake with salt levels 10 times higher than the ocean's.
On November 1985, long lasting wet weather conditions caused the enormous volume of water to break through the rock and earth dam and inundated much of the town under four feet (1.2 meters) of water. By 1993, the slow-growing flood consumed the town until it was covered in 10 meters of salt water.
Nearly 25 years later, the waters began to recede. The ruins of Villa Epecuen started coming back to the surface.
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.