Vintage shots from days gone by!

Looks like Curtis Lemay

"All original, never in an accident..."

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Jack Prince and Art Pillsbury built the Beverly Hills Speedway in 1919 on 275 acres of land, at a cost of $500,000. The 1.25-mile wood oval, which featured 45-degree banked turns, was funded by a group of actors and others in the industry known as the Beverly Hills Speedway Syndicate. The track was inaugurated on February 28, 1920, but after only four years the 70,000-seat stadium was disassembled to make room for other improvements in the newly incorporated city of Beverly Hills, holding its last race on February 24, 1924 before a crowd of 85,000. The developers eventually moved the racetrack to Culver City, and it was located at the intersection of Culver Blvd and Overland Blvd, right across the street from MGM Studios. It was at this "new" location and "new" track where Red Cariens was involved in a fatal crash on November 29, 1925. It was also at this location where Mickey Rooney's classic racing movie "The Big Wheel" (1949) was shot. This speedway was built at a time when car races were popular, so popular in fact, that there were radio broadcasts from the speedways. California had approximately six wooden track speedways, also known as "toothpick track" speedways. Culver City Speedway operated from December 14, 1924 to March 6, 1927; it was eventually removed to make way for movie studios.

 

View of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, showing the sets on Lot #4 on June 2, 1937.

Aerial view of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.

 

OK, no cars in this one - just a tongue-in-cheek campaign against the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Good choice of protesters, I'd say.

 

A hot rod to balance out the previous post

 

Found this on the LA History site

The first annual Hot Rod Exposition was held in 1948 at the National Guard Armory in Los Angeles, California. The show was organized by Wally Parks and the SCTA, and promoted by Robert E. Petersen. The very first Hot Rod Magazine was created as the program for the show, selling ads to whoever wanted to display as a vendor and hawking copies on the steps outside the Armory by its cofounder Robert E. Petersen. The show featured the best designed and engineered cars belonging to members of SCTA. The show was originally called the SCTA Automotive Equipment Display and Hot Rod Exposition. The whole show was the idea of Robert E. Petersen, he wanted to arrange the show in order to raise money to build a dragstrip. The actual dragstrip was never built.The first Hot Rod Exposition was held January 23, 24 and 25 in 1948. 55 000 people visited the show during the three days it was held. During the three-day event a 1932 Ford was built and given away.

Celebrity Colleen Townsend poses with the giveaway 1932 Ford at the 1948 Hot Rod Exposition.
The second annual Hot Rod Exposition was held January 21-30, 1949. The second show was also held at the National Guard Armory in Los Angeles, California.

 

Richard Nixon??

 

yep

 

Gasron Chevrolet, first driver and winner of the Indy 500 to finish without a tire change, was killed here in 1920. 28 years old.

 

Thanks guys, that was a great batch of shots.

 

Type 51 ( birdcage ) Maserati ?

 

More from Atlanta and north Georgia:


1937 Ford, Atlanta, late 30s-early 40s.


Burned and wrecked 1937 Ford from Cotton Motors, Atlanta, late 30s-early 40s.


Trainload of new Chevrolets from Lakewood Assembly Plant, Atlanta, December 1963.


Corner Gas Station, Atlanta, Late 30s-early 40s.


Cartersville, Georgia, 1954.


Atlanta, 1927.

 

it is Aston Martin DBR 1

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_DBR1