Vintage shots from days gone by!

I have totally lost my bearings. Did I post either of these before?

 

MASH wasn't filmed in Korea either I suppose?

 

Calabasas

 

Santa Monica Mountains

 

1959

Hello,

In 1959, Mickey Brown was on a rampage at Lions Dragstrip and other local race tracks. He was the first to go over 150 mph in the ¼ mile. His battles at Long Beach were epic. The most sought after match up was against the Joe Mailliard/Paul Nicolini’s Sidewinder race car. These exciting events all led to the tragic end for Mickey Brown.

Jnaki
1959 lions MICKEY BROWN vs sidewinder total


Mickey Brown
Born: July 26, 1937 Died: September 12, 1959 Age: 22
Michael Daryl Brown Lions Drag Strip, Wilmington, California Accident Date: September 12, 1959
Car: Scrima-Adams-Smith Olds-powered dragster
Biographical: Ronnie Scrima and Mort Smith were testing a new short wheelbase (93") dragster at Lions. They had dropped Gene Adams's Oldsmobile engine in the car, but were having a hard time getting it down the track. Mickey Brown had left his own Olds-powered dragster at home and he offered to see if he could drive the car.

About 100 feet from the starting line, he lost control and flipped upside down, suffering fatal injuries because his head got outside the confines of the roll bar. He was transported to Seaside Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. His wife witnessed the crash. Racers remembered him as a kind of wild, but fun-loving kid. He was the first man to go over 150 MPH in a gas dragster.

This is the Scrima, Adams, & Smith car that Mickey Brown drove.

"Ronnie Scrima owned the chassis, Gene Adams owned the engine and Mort Smith drove. The car was a consistent Top Eliminator in 1958-59. It ran an Olds 371 with a 471 blower and a 2 port injection that Stuart Hilborn had built and tuned for the car. It was the only car that Hilborn personally tuned. Involved with the car was Jack Engle of Engle cams who ground the cam for it. There was a rivalry with the car and Tommy Ivo. After the final round one night, Ivo beat the car and Gene Adams was furious. He told Scrima and Smith that he was going to put a 454 with an 871 Blower that he had and really show them.

The next week they went to Lions with the 454 engine installed. Mort said the car would pull violently to the right and tried to control the car twice down the track. On the third try it right off the line it did an immediate turned to the right. Mort shut it off and decided not to try again. He told Scrima and Adams that there was something seriously wrong. Adams wasn’t convinced and he asked Mickey Brown, who was at the track that night with his wife and 2 y.o. daughter, to drive the car.

Mort tried to talk him out of it but Mickey wanted to give it a shot. Mickey was 22 at the time and fearless, being the record holder as the first driver to top 150mph on gas. He came off the line and the car began to drift to the right but before her could get his foot out of it the car drifted off the track into a ravine on the side of the track, no barriers then, and the car rolled on its side. Mickey Thompson was the first person to get to the car and found Brown unconscious. Brown died on the way to the hospital. The Gene Adams engine went into a new K88 chassis that became the Albertson Olds."

Thanks for the added information...

 

I don't remember seeing them in here before.

 

I don't remember last Thursday.

 

Custom City

 

Driver Watus Simpson is seen here standing tall in Vance Hunt's top fuel car, probably at Green Valley Raceway



Double Trouble


Driver shown is Jimmy White. Car was campaigned by brothers Beaver and Zero Wasson





Moon





Davis & Veselka

 

1957 Ford Assembly plant putting out sunliners

EDIT: from jimmy six they are Skyliners




1964 worlds Fair display



1964 street scene





1956 Buick

 

Geraghty Racing Division


Granny Got Her Gun




Grease Pit




High Performance used cars





Hollywood Blvd



Smuggled

 

^ Granny bagged a Buick ^

 

I remember mounts of engines like this on Terminal Island in Long Beach, Ca.

 

Early altered wheelbase car from the factory!
Or a photoshop phantom.

 

Too many red 64 Chevy trucks!Must be meant for fleet sales!

 

Probably just a colorized black and white.that's my guess.

 

Love the old Midget Racing Cars!
Jimbo

 

Tucker mock up