Vintage shots from days gone by!

I don't know if a Youtube Video is off topic here.
This is historic Stock car racing in Stratford NZ [ we spell it Stockcar as one word to describe the sport]

Stockcar racing was introduced from the USA but in NZ it developed into a "Gladiator" sport.
Contact was allowed by officials and encouraged by the promoters [it drew large crowds]

The favorites were old Ford V8's with a few bars welded to them.

As a Kid I grew up with all this, my family holidays were spent on the road with dad racing stockcars.



I have a few old photos from this era, most are poor quality [If considered "Off Topic" I will stop posting them]

 

Charlie Halstead #75 at Gloucester Park, Auckland
Before the race



After the Race

 

Ohio 1950s

 

A lot of the drivers were given nicknames [like wrestlers]
Norm Wright was called "Norm She'll be Wright" ["She'll be right mate" is a Kiwi Saying]

 

Luray Caverns - Virginia.

 

Royal Gorge, CO. 1956.

 

Calistoga, CA. 1956

 

no. early pic of dorothy malone.

 

Holy smokes, was driving with the steering wheel this close to the driver common back then? Her feet are positioned to meet the pedals so the seat position might not be exagerated. Could it be for the extra leverage in the non-power steering cars?

 

Gloucester Park action 1950's

 

Eddie Sutherland, Car number 2 at Gloucester Park, Auckland

 

These old cars look like HA/GR's [except the old timer Xmas tree gives it away]

 

1965 Legrand Mk-3 Formula B Car

 

These pictures are a few that I just got a short time ago ... there are around 200 total most of them are 8"x10" with a few being 5"x7" and even a few 11"x14" all B&W ... photographer is unknown...they were found in the closet of a rental house ... I got word of them and made it to the place just as they were on there way to the dump...I'm currently looking up info on them trying to put names of drivers , cars , owners etc together....they include shots from several different classes of cars and I know that some and probably all of them are taken at Delta Park in Portland Oregon , now known as P.I.R.......sorry for the quality of the picture's the lighting in my house is crap.....

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Those are some great pictures Rudestude glad you saved them.

Pat

 

Here's a few more...even a couple stock car shots.... except for the stock car photo's these are 11"x14" photo's.... It's cool to go through these and see the drivers that became famous Championship Driver's ,if they weren't already......

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Great save, history that would have been lost forever.

 

Torrance, CA

 

Short Blocks

 

Jim Travers’ electric blue coupe. Built by New England Hall of Famer Marty Harty

 

No crying over piled Duces