Vintage shots from days gone by!

The Original Lady Gaga lol

 

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Tom Cherry began racing in 1939 with the Mutual Racing Association-a roadster group based in Muncie. Sometime after the war he started a speed shop in Muncie and became a "Speed Headquarters" for much of Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. His clientele was the round track racers of the time. In about '52 he rebodied the roadster he had been running into this car which he ran in NASCAR Speedway Division races along with IMCA, CRA and some Mutual Shows. The car was the show piece for the business. In '55 he started his own group, the All American Racing Club (a stock block sprint car association) where he continued his winning ways. In '56 he retired from racing, closed the speedshop, and started the Tom Cherry Muffler shop. The muffler shop continues to this day under the ownership of the Quirk family.

Strangely, the driver in this photo does not clearly look like Tom but it could ba a matter of dirt on the face. Another odd thing is the iron headed engine in the car. He was a big Evans distributor and usually wore them on his car.

The car exists today as a replica-built by Don Anderson of Tipp City, OH.

 

Heres a link to the original size photo so you can see his face better

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/getimage-idx?cc=hpicasc;entryid=x-000063.pic;viewid=000063PIC.TIF;x=1500;y=1128;width=7500;height=5640;res=0;view=image

 

Can you hear me now?

 

Thanks Woody !!.....I gotta learn how to do that!....

 

Today he would be driving a Subaru, using a Mac and eating Crunchy Granola!

 

As a kid I hung around the Cherry shop in the late 1940's and early 1950's and Dale Fairfax absolutely nailed Tom Cherry with that quick bio. It is a very accurate description of his racing days. I agree that the driver in this photo does not look like Cherry. I would venture a guess as either Wayne Alspaugh or maybe Marv Pifer.

 

I think it is Tom Cherry with the photographer catching him in a bad moment. Not Wayne Alspaugh. I'm wondering if it's the twin #83 car that Red Amick destroyed. Your correct Dale the heads don't fit the photo, that's why I'm wondering if it's the #83 car....but ???
HG

 

My late Mother-in-Law is the little kid hanging out the passenger side window. The family made several trips from Missouri to Colorado and back in this Model T truck in the 1920's. In 1927, they stayed in Colorado.

 

Same Mother-in-Law sitting on an Indian.

 

Mother-in-Law drove her son's 1929 Roadster Pickup from Olympia to Spokane, Washington for the World's Fair in 1974.

I took her for a cruise in my '31 Phaeton a few months ago. She loved our old cars. A couple of weeks ago, she left them all behind. 1917-2011

 

One tall, cool glass of water.

 

Where is the photo taken??

 

Languard bluff Wanganui New Zealand, 1965. My dad and all his mates.