VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

A. J. Foyt #2, and Parnelli Jones # 51, on the Milwaukee mile .

 

Tony Bettenhausen #5 - Trenton,NJ 1961

 

Red Riegel at the Golden State 100, 1961

 

On this day in 1951,
Gary Cooper became the first motorist to "flip off some guy driving too slow in the fast lane"

 

A 2finger flip... is that like a “double dare”

 

Another excellent article by Pat Ganahl .... just click on the link ..https://patganahl.com/2020/10/05/roddin-at-random

 

Thanks Loudbang, love the pics of Bill Burkes first tank, a real pioneer in streamline land speed racing and a real hero to me.

 

Beatles in the Caddy?

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Beatles Seattle 8/21/64. But I'm not a "fan"

 

Ernest Hemmingway

 

Kinda looks like Larry. Ah one anna two.... turn off the bubble machine..now where is that champagne girl, She’s gotta sing while Myron Floren and I play our accordions

 

Jimmy, I hate to believe I know you are right!
My grandfather and grandmother watched this guy and LIKED it!!!!!!!
"And now for the dulcet tones of Norma! Zimmer!!!!!"
God I'm old!

 

My mother had this exact '50 Mercury 1950-53. 3 on the tree with an overdrive which I assume was an option.

 

Of course it is. I used to see him around our neighborhood shopping area near the ABC studio in that '59 Dodge convertible which was purple IIRC. Dodge was his sponsor.

 

"You never do anything with the kids! Why don't you take them out sledding?"

 

Jimma the peanut farmer just had a birthday.