Vintage shots from days gone by!

by Walter Seybrecht-1946

 

Interesting picture, 7 digit California plate. This plate was issued in 1980, it was blue with yellow letters.

 

Google says it was taken in 1984!
The signs look pretty recent, not 50's, but the overall look IS certainly late 50's!
It's easy to be fooled.

 

Fitted to Greeves motorcycles as well.

 

Art Whipple & Kenney Goodell, 1965 AA/FD, driven by Ed McCullouch. Fontana 1965
Three great NW racers.

 

I owned a Greeves Scrambler when I was 12 years old. I paid $20 for it [from mowing laws]

Mine had a 250 Villiers engine , an unknown telescopic front end plus a tiny little seat [that looked homemade]

I used to ride it around an abandoned quarry [1/2 mile from home] and eventually got it taken off me by my parents when I pushed my luck riding on the streets.
Dad was a Speedway racer back then ,and always had neighbours complaining so he didn't need his sons aggravating the situation

I also had a 67 sprite trials bike with a 250 Villiers engine , that was a load of fun. [I was a lot older then]

They were worthless uncompetitive bikes back then [I should've kept them ,but I grew up]

 

My thoughts exactly. Thanks to the mods and the guys posting pics of American cars !

 

Potential Kiwi car buyer gets into the wrong side at the Dealership

 

Famous Aussie larrikin "Les Noyes" trying to get mentally focused on the desert run ,up to the Uluru hillclimb
That's his brother "Max" giving him advice.

 

A very young Bruce McLaren [22 years] after winning the Los Angeles GP in 1959

 

LeMans in 1954

 

Race car designer Gene Beach



And the Beach Sports Racer he produced in 1964

 

for more info, go to HAMB history auto racing 1894 to 1942 pg 104 #3095.
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Where McLaren started making a dream become reality.

 

Bastrop, Texas

 

The Pirrotta Carawana FX Holden with a Y block, later became a very successful competition car, with fuel injected 289 Ford Windsor. View attachment 4108937

 

Thanks for that mate,I knew one of those blokes in the pic was Joe Pirrotta but didn't know Carawana was in with him!...
Did Pirotta or Carawana live in Fairfield for a while and got into Top Fuelers?Just remember walking past a blokes place years ago who had a green one in his garage,I did stop and talk to him but I can't remember who it was!..

 

No Al, they came from Springvale Victoria, you might be thinking of Joe & Ben Gatt. Joe Pirotta was also known for this Bucket.

 

This is Joe & Ben Gatt's FX.

 

The "Boars Nest" before it became the world famous "Watering Hole" for thirsty motorists