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Title: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 12, 2012, 04:34:42 AM
In this thread, pictures of automobiles juxtaposed with giants - people, animals, and other things that have been rendered large in wood, fiberglass, metal, etc.

If you would like to add some of your own, pictures should be from before 1980.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on August 12, 2012, 03:34:03 PM
Well, some of those pics may not meet all of your specifications, but I think they´re worth showing them here  ;)
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Wendax on August 12, 2012, 03:55:25 PM
I think this one fulfills all requirements: there is a car, the photo was taken before 1980 and there certainly is some gigantic stuff in the picture.  ;)
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on August 12, 2012, 04:06:18 PM
 :D

Russ rules...

Here are 4 more movie posters with giant men and women:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 13, 2012, 03:41:55 AM
Well, this has gotten completely out-of-hand. 
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on August 13, 2012, 03:59:05 AM
I know just where to find plenty of those, but alas without any automobile in sight and pictures probably taken after 1981.
In the meantime here are three photos that almost meeet the requirements.
- In the first one, there is only a tiny car somewhere , but one hell of a giant.
- In the second one, this lion may not be a giant yet, but will soon grow to be one if this lady continues to water it like this.
- In the third one I can't guarantee the year of the picture, but the truck sure is pre-1981
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on August 13, 2012, 11:54:51 AM
QuoteWell, this has gotten completely out-of-hand.

If you want me to, I´d delete the posters, of course.

I hope I´ll find some more apropriate ones in future... :D

Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 13, 2012, 01:22:56 PM
No need to delete.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 12, 2012, 04:11:50 PM
Back on-topic.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 20, 2012, 05:21:01 AM
On-topic update
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on November 20, 2012, 06:07:40 AM
 :lurk:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 20, 2012, 06:15:52 AM
That is one BIG prairie dog
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 24, 2012, 06:22:23 AM
Moo
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on December 09, 2012, 09:35:57 AM
 :hail: The king!
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 12, 2012, 05:47:34 AM
Big, bigger, biggest! A few more giants - actual, and simulated
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on December 19, 2012, 08:59:43 AM
Rather happy to have found this one!
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 19, 2012, 09:38:32 AM
Giganti-Claus!  ;D
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2012, 05:57:44 AM
Santa is happy once again
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on December 29, 2012, 10:02:47 AM
A german cake ad-mobile:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 29, 2012, 10:38:20 AM
Looks like a Blancmange - run! Run!
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on December 29, 2012, 10:55:12 AM
But it´s the one and only german Gugelhupf... :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugelhupf
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 17, 2013, 11:33:58 AM
You can wash it down with a giant Coke
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 17, 2013, 11:35:11 AM
+
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on March 22, 2013, 06:10:31 PM
Silver slipper
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 23, 2013, 02:46:04 AM
It's all fun and games, until she comes back for her slipper.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 25, 2013, 04:53:24 AM
.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on March 25, 2013, 12:33:41 PM
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on April 10, 2013, 03:04:09 PM
A cool 1959 pic:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 13, 2013, 08:38:13 AM
Nice one!

A smaller giant...
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on April 13, 2013, 11:33:12 AM
I'd rather that she don't rub me anyhow!
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on April 13, 2013, 11:39:25 AM
 :lmao:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on April 24, 2013, 08:34:10 AM
Two pictures. I'd have been tempted to publish them in the "Pedal cars" topic.... But the first one obiously sems NOT to be pedal car. So I supose that it's a real car, surrounded by giants.
As for the second...
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on April 24, 2013, 11:55:40 AM
QuoteSo I suppose that it's a real car, surrounded by giants.

:D
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 26, 2013, 09:28:26 AM
More giants
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 26, 2013, 09:29:56 AM
&
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on July 06, 2013, 08:02:26 AM
Big McCahill:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 21, 2013, 05:19:56 AM
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Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 31, 2013, 08:11:26 AM
A rather odd assortment today...


Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on September 01, 2013, 06:39:35 AM
Your last batch is great !
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on October 17, 2013, 05:36:06 AM
Another trip through the land of the giants.

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Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on October 17, 2013, 05:37:53 AM
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Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on October 21, 2013, 10:40:17 AM
 8)
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on October 31, 2013, 01:21:53 PM
 8)
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 01, 2013, 03:02:39 AM
I've not seen a 'trailer queen' like that before.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 01, 2013, 06:39:16 AM
.

Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 01, 2013, 06:41:25 AM
+
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on December 16, 2013, 06:02:15 AM
 :applause:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on December 21, 2013, 04:04:11 AM
Seen earlier, but more fitting today.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on February 10, 2014, 03:33:51 PM
Bing yesterday, Eddie today.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 06, 2014, 06:48:29 AM
&
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on June 02, 2014, 02:50:36 PM
Giant 1910 woman:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: 4popoid on June 03, 2014, 01:41:06 AM
Let's try this again.  Edit The pictures seem to have disappeared, I'll try to put them back.
Some vintage advertising giants:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 06, 2014, 05:57:55 AM
Nice!
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on June 10, 2014, 12:28:20 PM
1911 truck and metal creatures
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 10, 2014, 03:47:52 PM
Wow!
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on July 20, 2014, 01:11:20 PM
US of A, a 1922 roadster:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on September 21, 2014, 12:45:24 PM
A nice 1933 trick:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on September 26, 2014, 10:53:05 AM
 :lurk:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 27, 2014, 07:23:25 AM
several major stove manufacturers. One of them, the Michigan Stove Company, commissioned the "World's Largest Stove," made of 15 tons of hand-carved oak, as their contribution to the 1892 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Following the fair, the stove was brought to the city to stand as a landmark outside of the Michigan Stove Company's headquarters at Jefferson Avenue and Adaire Street. After the Michigan Stove Company merged with the Detroit Stove Works in 1927, the stove was moved up the road to the newly formed Detroit-Michigan Stove Company just east of the Douglas MacArthur Bridge to Belle Isle. Unfortunately, in 1955, the shift toward modern gas and electric ranges put the Detroit-Michigan Stove Company out of business. A decade later, when developers expressed interest in the land beneath the stove's four mighty legs, a coalition of city officials, private companies, and individuals came together to save the landmark.

The Michigan State Fairgrounds were selected as the new home for the stove. The stove, together with the flatbed truck used for the move to this new site, required 27 feet of clearance. An 18-mile route was drawn up for the truck to avoid overpasses and other low-hanging obstructions. Detroit Edison and Michigan Bell workers were included in the stove's procession to raise and—if necessary—cut low-hanging power and utility lines. The stove left its long-time home at 4:16 a.m. on Sunday, April 11, 1965 to avoid as much traffic as possible. The rather convoluted route took the stove, crawling at about five miles per hour, east on Jefferson to St. Jean Street, then north to Mack Avenue. From there it headed east to Conner Street, on which it stayed until veering west along McNichols Road to Van Dyke Avenue. From Van Dyke it proceeded north to 8 Mile Road. The direct path along 8 Mile to Woodward Avenue was blocked by a railroad overpass, so the route called for the stove to snake around to the Fairgrounds by taking Oakland Street (where I-75 presently runs) south back to McNichols. From there the stove had a clear path west to Woodward, then north to the bus terminal turnaround at the Fairgrounds. After just over nine hours, the stove arrived at the fairgrounds, where it was installed opposite the bus stop.

Despite the giant stove's long trek, it was still not out of harm's way. By 1974, the then 80-year old wooden monument had fallen into disrepair. It was dismantled and moved away from the elements into storage. Although it was out of view for the next 24 years, the stove never vanished from the hearts of Detroiters. In time for the 150th anniversary of the Michigan State Fair in 1998, a fund raising campaign provided the Detroit Historical Museum the means to restore and reassemble the stove at the fairgrounds. Tragically, after another 13 years of display, the World's Largest Stove was severely burned after being struck by lightning on August 14, 2011. Pieces of the charred remains were recently displayed in the Detroit Historical Museum.


Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on October 31, 2014, 05:14:58 AM
One for Charlie Brown, and a real giant, for once!
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on November 18, 2014, 03:41:27 PM
Mother Bavaria 1938 in Munich:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 20, 2014, 05:44:44 AM
Giant indeed.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on December 03, 2014, 05:23:21 PM
 8)
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: grobmotorix on December 05, 2014, 05:12:47 PM
A giant German president Hindenburg´s head at a party campaign in Berlin in 1925:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on December 11, 2014, 12:56:19 AM
 :lurk:
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on December 16, 2014, 06:16:21 AM
Soviet foot
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: 4popoid on January 11, 2015, 06:11:47 PM
I believe this one may be related to Grob's Reply #55.
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Ray B. on February 27, 2015, 12:00:06 AM
 8)
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 01, 2015, 08:10:11 AM
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Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 26, 2016, 03:59:18 AM
 :)
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Oguerrerob on December 27, 2016, 08:31:50 AM
Giant playing with cars
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Post by: Oguerrerob on December 27, 2016, 08:36:38 AM
Quote from: Oguerrerob on December 27, 2016, 08:31:50 AM
Giant playing with cars
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: Oguerrerob on December 27, 2016, 08:38:53 AM
Giant cars
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Post by: Oguerrerob on December 27, 2016, 08:44:35 AM
Quote from: Oguerrerob on December 27, 2016, 08:38:53 AM
Giant cars
Title: Re: Cars & Giants
Post by: ftg3plus4 on December 28, 2016, 07:41:48 AM
Regarding this pic posted earlier: This is still there, and I was there myself within the last couple of years.