I just got home from a whirlwind car event trip of a lifetime. It started at the Concorso Italiano on Friday, the Monterey Motorsports Reunion on Saturday, Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Sunday, then flying into Salt Lake for a few days watching racing at Bonneville. Man, I’m tired, but what a killer 6 day journey [...]
History
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The Hemi Under Glass & More
I was tooling around The Selvedge Yard the other day and ran into a great post about the Hemi Under Glass. There’s some great vintage photography in the post, but what really caught my eye was the video featured below. It showcases a modern day interview with Bob Riggle and the absolute best vintage footage [...]
August 14, 1945 – VJ Day
The day for which the people of the world have prayed is here at last. There is great thankfulness in our hearts. Peace has not come, however, as the result of the kind of power which we have known in the past, but as the result of a new discovery which as yet is not [...]
The Bocar Stiletto by Bob Carnes
As a follow up to his successful XP series sports cars , Denver Colorado-based car builder Bob Carnes decided to take his same XP-6 front-mounted 471 blown SBC engine backed by a Borg-Warner T-10 transmission, and apply it to a purely evil race car for 1960 season. It was to be the ultimate track [...]
Goldie Gardner’s MG at Bonneville (1952)
Ryan’s Challenger I post got me all fired up about Bonneville and record-setting streamliners of the golden age. I was starting to write about another car when I stumbled on this AMAZING silent 8mm footage of Goldie’s Bonneville runs of 1952, including shots of the MG EX-135 damage after it broke loose and hit the [...]
1951 Delahaye Roadster
Here’s the last of my featured cars from the Mullin Collection, which leans towards the Coachcraft factory custom side of things, rather than the racing world. This Type 235 Roadster was first show at the ‘51 Paris Auto Salon as a last ditch hope for Delahaye to survive the post war car market. The coach [...]
The Belly Tank
This one has been making the rounds through the ole emailer lately. It’s a picture of a man that takes true pride in his belly tank. It’s not just an auxiliary gas tank to be thrown to the wayside once the fuel is used up or a fight is eminent… Not to him. It’s not [...]
1923 Voisin C6
Continuing with the Mullin Museum’s race car collection, I stumbled upon the weirdest one of them all down at the end of isle. I hope this one provides some inspiration for hot rod cues. I dig the dash panel, massive shift linkage, and huge disk wheels. I’m also thinking they beat Chrysler to the square [...]
1927 Miller Indy Car
Another gem from the Mullin Museum Collection was this 1927 Earl Cooper and Harry Miller Special, Chassis #2. The car was originally built and campaigned by Cooper (one year before his retirement) & Miller under the sponsorship of the Buick Motorcar Company. In 1927 she was debuted by racer Peter Kreis as car #9, until [...]
The Jalopy Races
The following video was sent to me by Dave Hallberg of Scottville, Michigan. Dave is passionate about Jalopy Racing in a way that I can’t explain. Along with this video, he sent a number of old photos as well as a three page hand-written letter that explains the details of the video he made. Together, [...]
