mid-late 40's Dry Lake Hot Rod and Race Car Photos

In my search for early custom car photos I came across (auction site) a nice collection of mid to late 40's Hot Rod and Dry Lake Race photos. They where all far out of my budget and most of them not what I was looking for. So these are the photos as they apeared on the auction site. I do not own them!

Ofcoars I was a bit disapointed not to find more custom cars in the background or even complete photos of custom cars..... but I do also appreciate all early Hot Rod photos and especially these type of snap shots, which give a great look at how the spectators or drivers enjoyed these races.

I was hoping for more photos of these.....



or perhaps the light colored Carson topped 38 Ford Cornvertible in thebackground here...







But most where of the real deal Hot Rods and Lake Racers.... I know a lot of you guys will ove them...








Stu Hilborn....

 

cool pictures-thanks!

 

Way cool pics Rik!
Nice finds.

 

I like them !!! Thanks for sharing.

 

Ha Ha I have all those pics as well I even won a couple of the original photos


and the negatives for these ones below

 

Great.. at least some of them got in the hand of some hambers!!!

 

Absolutely outstanding! Thanks for posting those. So cool to see the pic of the knuckle in there too. Funny.... I didn't see any rat rods or "bobbers".

 

WAY COOL!!!!!!!!
Tim
MBL

 

Wow, and wow again . Thankyou so much for sharing.

 

WOW thanks great pictures!!

 

Awesome pictures , this post just made my day !!!

Thank you for sharing !

 

The best group of pix. I think I've ever seen, thanks for posting. Couldn't help but notice there isn't one over weight white haired guy in a lawn chair anywhere.

 

As always Rik you can sure start my day outright.

 

I could look at those for hours. They have so much detail and really capture what traditional Rodding should be about. Thank you so much for sharing.

 

Ohh - thank you!!!

Bookz is right.

THIS is what the HAMB is about!

NOT those fucking OSR style junk and not "Bobber" trucks....

This is where it's at man.

And I do the same thing Rikster does. I look at the old race photos searching the backgrounds for sweet customs. It seems like there was always some dude showing up to an event in a kick ass custom and parking on the out edge of all the action....

Love it.

Thanks Rikster.

 

GREAT photos. Thanks for posting and sharing. I especially like the ones of the guys "camping".

I've got a CD of the photos I took at Bo Huffs that I'd like to send to you. PM me your snail amil addy when you get a chance.

 

Simply amazing thankyou so much for posting these. I love it!

 

Thanks for sharing these gems, a blast from the past, i dig it!
very cool photos, these B&W pics are sweet.

 

Ryan needs to post this on the Jalopy Journal side...

 

Unreal pix and a thousand thanx for postin 'em.

GOLD !!

Rat

 

Amazing, thanks for taking the time!

 

just plain awesome.

 

thanks rik i saw the negatives and wanted all of them but that wasnt gona happen, so i passed. i really thought thay should of stayed together maybe ahrf b ut oh well

 

Wow. Those are some great pictures. Hope you find more, but til then WOW!

 

awesome pics!!!!

 

WHOA!! Awesome! Thanks for posting these up here!

 

i like em mucho thanks
ok so are these still for sale? ... $$$ ?
....and what price was too much?... the money we spend on trj and other books would seem that these in the right hands could be turned inta a book of thier own ...
but ... posting them here may get some info on who's whatzit's and when and how and who owns em now..