Vintage shots from days gone by!

It was a joke, Jim, as a reply to the Gulwing Ferrari.
Sorry.
At least we all should be glad, that it's no Saab.

 

When a showroom was A SHOW ROOM!

 

Chevrolet Corvair

 

Is this south bound on I-5 between LA and SD? Sure looks familiar. Gary

 

Hey Gary,
That photo looked familiar. But after thinking about the run all the way down I-5, there is only the Camp Pendleton coastline that might qualify. You would have to go at least 500 miles north to get to that particular spot. I have been on that freeway many times when traveling in the bay area around San Francisco.

Jnaki
By the time I was there for a couple of years in college, the Bayshore Freeway was the main thoroughfare to SF from San Jose.
CAPTION:
Spectators watch as the Candlestick Causeway, a portion of the Bayshore Freeway opens on July 11, 1957.

Here is a photo from above.

 

Jeep file is a big one LOL. Worked on a bunch of these at the dealership I worked at.

 

All these are from International Raceway Park in 1963.

















FE power



Slant Six

 

Hurrying to get these done as it's a lot of ladies Lollapalooza Late evening lately.



Danny Ongais, AAD, Chevy. Right Dos Palmas Machine Shop, AAD, Chevy, Arnold Chaves, Driver.



Greer-Black-Prudhomme, AAFD, Chrysler, Don Prudomme, Driver.


Driven by Joe Lacosta, owned by Pat Akins and Belmont San Chez Jr. of Arcadia, CA - 195.36 mph - 8.11 ET - July 1959



Eddie Hill Pontiac powered Class A dragster ran 8.84 seconds in 1960. He was from Witchita Falls, Texas.

 

I see. Thanx, Gary

 

The car originally was a Lister until being totally revamped by them, including a Lister-style body.
And you are correct, John Keane and his boss Roger Ham worked for a car parts place called 'Nuts and Bolts' They had a big business widening steel wheels. Keane said 'I widened the wheels while Roger worked on the race car. When we added the Weber carbs, we had a weird Edelbrock? Moon? manifold- I've never seen another one like it. It put the carb linkage on the outside, so Ham- who was a genius- built a beautiful linkage from scratch to tie it all together...it was a work of art. When we went to the first race, we discovered that the throttle return spring was too stiff, so basically the engine would either be off or run full throttle. Even tho the Chevy had fuel injection before and was very fast, I'd say the Webers unleashed another 200hp. So I went out, in the wet, with this engine either running flat out or off, and drove it with the on/off switch. Guess what- I reset the track record. Nobody was more surprised than me!"

 

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Bob Marvin and Don Branson battle with Roger Ward behind. Great picture Rootie