Vintage shots from days gone by!

Now we know what a clown car is!

 

awww, come on guys !! that's "Kookie's Car"

the owner loves it and won't even discuss selling it !!!

 

Best scenes:

 

Rootie, your photo looks to be an early one of the Ross Page car. I've always wondered just what the story was behind the unique, for the time, layout of the car.

Also, I've seen photos of the car being built at Kurtis (circa 1946) that show Ronnie Ward (Rodger's brother) doing part of the fabrication on the car. I don't know just when he started at Kurtis but the Page car might have been one of his first projects there. Ronnie seems to be one of the unsung heroes of race car construction in that era as at one point he was working for both Kurtis (days) and Watson (evenings) at the same time. Of course, he later went out on his own[/QUOTE]
I raced at Thompson Speedway back in the 60's and I remember the old road course very well. The worst part of racing at Thompson was trying to sleep in the back of an old Chevrolet station wagon at night because the mosquitoes were so big we used to say they had landing lights!
Back in the 60's the only place to get food was by driving to Webster, Mass. and finding a diner. There really was nothing in Thompson, Ct. back in those day's.
Great Memories from Thompson Speedway.
Jimbo

 

So Long Bannatyne

 

Yup. In the 60s, you didn't even get noticed at the car shows unless you were showing an outrageous "if one is good, two is better" over-the-top custom car craze. The same era as Munster Coach, all the Big Daddy Roth model car kits with green monsters dripping slime sitting in the driver's seat of of space-agey creation.

Here's another shot of the same "bucket" - if one slick is good, two is more good, two blowers, etc. Hey don't forget, the drag racing guys actually did all that for real too. just saying...

 

What the heck is going on with the engine area in this?
Is that a couple of extra cylinders added on in front, or some type of compressor? Most odd!

 

I did not know/or forgot that!

I guess then this would be the matching back of the album?

 

You know you're from Canada when the block heater cord is still hanging out the grill in the middle of summer!

 

It's a supercharger.

 

1950s LeMans

 

KenTaylormarspdwy by mactexas, on Flickr

 

Kompressor

 

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Bardahal Bug



Note the BGAS license plate



Campbell Ford A/FX

 

Dick Patterson and his '31 Ford 5-window powered by a T-bird 312 and twin McCulloch superchargers, 1965



Art Bishop 24 Ford



Bill Neumann 31 Ford



Bob Duedall '34 Ford coupe ('32 grille), 1962



Dave Soderstrom's 32 3 window

 

You rang... LOL somebody talking about this era in this thread today

Ed Roth Beatnick Bandit

 

Alan Ladd



Big Daddy 1955



Coburn & Warren



Costilow & Larsen

 

Williams & Lederbrand Scientific Motor Engineering



Westenberger & Bill



Wee Eel II Els Lohn



Warren Welsh



Walt Arfons' Wingfoot Express powered by up to 25 rockets, 1965

 

A 1960 photo of Gene Force in the McKay Kurtis 500J. Chuck Weyant had driven the car in the 1959 500.

This car has been restored and was raced in European vintage events for many years on road courses. In more recent years the car has found its way back to North America. Here is a link to some recent photos. Notice the Girling brakes left over from its road racing.

http://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/3805,15082/1959-Kurtis-500J.aspx

 

28th & Belmont, Portland, OR

 

Onesie's are for boys but only up to the age of 18 months.

 

I'll have what she's having!

 

Yeah, except.....

 

Like I told my kids as they were growing up - "Just because you can doesn't mean you should".

 

Future speedster of Luke Skywalker?

 

Better fix that front plate first. Things like that give cops an excuse to pull you over. (Ask me how I know.)


See what I mean?

 

She just loves the feeling of that engine rumbling.