History More Vintage Bonneville Footage

Thanks Boss!

 

Great footage, especially liked the push cars! Thanks for sharing.

 

Don't know what was cooler the race cars or the vehicles in the background....sure didn't waist any money on roll bars.....

 

Great video,but it looked like the same one twice....twice as nice.

 

Holy smokes, that was awesome!! I really liked seeing all of the push vehicles too. Now I REALLY want a belly tank. Just one more thing I don't need and cannot afford but that just sealed the deal for me!! The color of that video is really great too.

 

Technically, it's 3 minutes and 3.5 seconds since it repeats itself.
Great stuff anyway.
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They really did build 'em that low back then. Rollbars? What's that?

1950...back when Uncle Sam was still scrapping all those P-38s and P-51s and F4Us at fractions of a cent on the dollar, that'd be worth multiple millions apiece now...

 

Looks like almost all the pushers were Ford's, spotted a Chevy panel and an older Dodge PU

 

Always good videos!

 

Thanks Ryan!

 

You gotta love a lakester being push started by a highboy roadster

 

Seems like the old days at Bonneville were just plain good old fun. Thanks Ryan.

 

Great stuff. Love the masking tape on the Plexiglas windshield.
Great stuff. Love the masking tape on the Plexiglas windshield.

 

A great example of why I come here just about every day and have done for the last seven years.

 

Badass

 

Now that is really funny!!!!

Thanks Ryan......

 

way kool

 

Ryan -

Thanks for showcasing this Bonneville footage!

This video really didn't get the exposure it deserves when yeahRight posted it (& two other '50s B-ville videos) in his October '13 50's (?) Bonneville footage thread.

 

Got that right, Tommy! Absolutely my favorite of all those iconic images............thank's for sharing it, Ryan, I must have missed the previous posting.

 

I could've banged three times or watched this video....I chose the video....Killer!

 

You're right, if I remember correctly, SCTA did not require roll bars until the '56 meet, after John Donaldson died in the Reed Brother's tank at the '55 meet. They did require safety helmets in '48, though...but the guy in the modified roadster waving to the camera as the car starts down the course does not seem to be wearing one...

 

that was beautiful! pure Americana!

 

Towards the end of the video is a black car number 517, on the hood is Ralph's Muffler & Speed Shop Indianapolis, Ind. There are still a few Ralph's muffler shops here in Indy. They used to have a few pictures of old sprint cars that they sponsored hanging in the waiting room walls but I never knew that they went to Bonneville.