Art & Inspiration Traditional images that need no explanation.

Tires? No We don't need no stinking tires!!

 

Slick

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Pittsburgh Car show Hunt Armory 1961..

 

As long as they held air they were fair game.

 

Needs a "Skid Plate"......

 

From 1956 American International Pictures release "Hot Rod Girl". Chuck Conners played a police detective investigating the plague of hot rodders in their small town. Tag line of the movie was "Chicken Races...Rock and Roll...Youth on the Loose!...Are these our children? Teenage terrorists tear up the streets!" ( Film was a double bill along with "Girls in Prison". ) One of my favorite lines from the film .....exasperated police chief tells Conners to " Confiscate all Hot Rods"!

 

Tommy Ivo on the right.

 

Think this might be a still from an episode of "Highway Patrol"...the one about two brothers using a "supercharged" hot rod to pull off heists and out run cops.

 

Another one of those delightfully awful American International Pictures B-movies. Actually featured two of Tommy Ivos iconic cars...the T Bucket and his Buick slingshot dragster ( that's Ivo in the pic ). This was the stuff that entertained us baby boomers in the early to mid sixties when they hit the T.V. airwaves as after school fare in the afternoons, along with all those great old sci-fi and monster flicks.

 

Two observations...

1. I don't think that roll bar is going to provide much protection if that roadster goes shiny side down...and 2., I wonder if the driver was thinking about #1 when this picture was taken - take a look at his eyes - he's got the "crazy eyes" going as he's starting to lean into that turn.

 

The Elvis Presley roadster ?

 

It looks like "Clark" desert boots were part of the fire suit.

 

It appears its been a while since you were a teenager, you have forgotten how invincible you were back then.
I suspect about the only thing going through his mind is how he is going to pass the guy ahead of him, or how he is going to keep the guy behind him, behind him.
My grandson is 19, probably one of the last things on his mind is that he may get hurt doing some of the stuff he does, or at least it is the last thing he would admit to being on his mind.

In my younger days, I owned dirt track hobby stock cars. For 15 years in a row, I would put a brand new driver in my car every season, and teach him how to race. Out of those 15 new drivers, not one was concerned about their safety until after they crashed, and then some still didn't care because they didn't get hurt. One kid destroyed 4 cars in one season, the last car was T boned in the drivers door. Fortunately, he wasn't injured but the next few days he was a bit sore. He was still ready to get into another race car. Gene

 

wouldn't you really rather have a buick...

 

Gene,

You are right - it has been a while since I was a teenager for sure! And as I think about it, I was indeed pretty bulletproof "back in the day". I can't remember how many times I had my head broke and various parts of my body battered or torn up. I was living proof that: Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement....

I guess the Lord had different plans for me than I did.