the only motorized vehicles in the 1933-34 Chicago "Century of Progress" exhibition were Greyhound tour busses

GMC T26 trucks, and the bodies were made by the Yellow Truck and Coach company http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/y/yellow_coach/yellow_coach.htm

Learned about these from http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/511453.html

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Car Nut 1 Blogspot has some cool photos!

1957 Vette barnfind

1926 Rickenbacker with Woodlight headlights, the first I've ever seen with them.

all from http://carnut1.blogspot.com 

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post WW2 photo of Tokyo citizens using war damaged buses for temporary living residences

Disabled buses that have littered the streets of Tokyo are used to help relieve the acute housing shortage in the Japanese capital on October 2, 1946. Homeless Japanese who hauled the buses into a vacant lot are converting them into homes for their families. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) via http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/world-war-ii-after-the-war/100180/  thanks Mike!

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