Eye-catching black and whites

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Walter Brandstetter (6) and Fritz Dirtl (2), both riding JAPs, at the trotting track in Baden, 13-09-1953.

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Josef Eisemann, crossing the Danube in Vienna, 1949.

He did this numerous times, sometimes even with his 16 year old Daughter, Rosa, sitting on his shoulders.

They always attracted huge crowds. The high wire was about 120 metres long, and 40 metres above the ground.

On 17 July 1949, he and his daughter did their final crossing, when they fell off the wire just a few feet from the platform.

They were both killed instantly.

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Mercedes hearse by coachbuilder Jauernig in Vienna.

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Otto Mathé with his Porsche-Sport 1100 at the Großglockner hillclimb, 24 June 1950.

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Action Art 1968: Peter Weibel, pretending to be a dog, lets himself be led through Vienna by Valie Export.

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Rudolph Runtsch on his Norton in 1950 at an unknown road race.

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Advertising for a cycle race in the Vienna Velodrome.

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Vienna's red light district, 1958.

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Big bell "Pummerin" on its way to the Stephansdom (St. Stephens Cathedral) in Vienna, 1952.

 

Oh, and those are Hanomag SS-100 'Gigant' tractors, most likely ex-German Wehrmacht.

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"Pummerin" in Linz, departing for Vienna.

 

The original Pummerin was cast after the second Siege of Vienna (1683), from the metal of Turkish cannons, by Johann Achamer in Vienna, in 1711. It was destroyed in the firestorm on 12 April 1945.

The new Pummerin you see in these photos, was cast from the metal of the old Pummerin, on 5 September 1951, in the bell foundry St. Florian, after a previous cast had been unsuccessful. It has a diameter of 3.14 m, height 2.94 m, and weighs almost 22 metric tons.

It is decorated with reliefs of the battle of 1683, and the firestorm of 1945.

 

Note the delegation of a US-Army Music Corps to celebrate the occasion. Austria was under quadripartite division until 1956.

Linz was in the American, Vienna in the Soviet zone.

[forddeliveryboy]

What is that?

 

i seen hints of Triumph GT6 at the front and possibly a Vignale influence in the profile. However the image address suggests its Czech...

 

Tatra JK5000, a concept car from 1955. Here's another pic -

 

[rml2345]

That prototype Tatra is handsome as hell. 

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Czechoslovakia has a long tradition in elegant cars.

Coachbuilder Carosserie Sodomka of Prague was right up there with the best of them.

 

This a Aero 50 Dynamik they made the coachwork for:

 

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This is the same car as found by my friend, Czech auto-historian Dr. Jan Tulis, in the Seventies:

 

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Doesn't look like time was very kind to it. 

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Jan stored these dreary remains away for almost 30 years. In the late 1990s he had managed to accumulate enough wealth to commission a full restoration. This is the car now:

 

 

Again, sorry for the colour photo.

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Sodomka Mercedes 770K:

 

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Walter Regent:

 

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Same car:

 

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Skoda Superb 913:

 

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Another Aero 50 'Arizona':

 

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Aero 30 k00p:

 

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This LaSalle was commissioned by HRH Edward VIII, The Duke of Windsor. It never was delivered, since WWII got in the way.

The whereabouts of the car are unknown.

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A Sodomka bodied T600 Cabriolet at the Salon de Paris in 1948.

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Allianz is a big, German, fascist insurance corporation.

Shortly after the reunification, it became 'chic' in West Germany, to drive a Trabbi.

They did this crash test, to discourage such "shenanigans" (their terminology).

The car was crashed to a wall at 30 kph, then rear-ended by some arrogant

capitalist class enemy motor with the same speed.

Allegedly, nobody in the Trabbi would have stood the ghost of a chance for survival.

Subsequently Trabbi sales in West Germany skyrocketed to hitherto unimaginable levels.

[martc]

Those Sodomka cars are very nice but I bet they are a pain in the bum to run (I'll get me coat)

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