Vintage shots from days gone by!

Mt. Rainer - Washington

 

Chicago 1955

 

No....it says, "Dorothy Malone" in the lower right corner.

 

There were steam locomotives going through Royal Oak, Michigan in the 1960s.

 

Back in the days when the largest city in NZ only had 5 digit telephone numbers [sponsored on the door]

Driven by Ivan Wood

 

Bill Gallagher's weekend warrior

 

Ross Jensen in his 1953 Austin Healey at the NZ Grand Prix ,Ardmore 1954. [This is the car that Bruce McLaren later raced]


Here is all the Trophys that Bruce McLaren won in the ^^^ same car

 

Street Drag meeting at Rotorua NZ

 

This is a street driven T Bucket owned by Roger Murray getting it up
[before the days of Viagra]
Powered by a heavy old 7 litre Big Block Ford with 2 x 4 barrels

 

Great to see the old kiwi shots. I've always been a Bruce Maclaren fan felt he has never got the recognition he deserves when Ford GT40 first won at Le Mans. He's hardly ever mentioned in his home country of NZ these days even though he's left a great legacy.

 

Oops! My bad....

 

Here's a photo of Bruce at his homecoming in NZ.
From L to R Les [father] , Bruce, Ruth [Mother] , Jan [Sister]



A photo of Bruce and Les taken in 1959

 

Just catching up on the photos been posted of Bruce and all the old kiwi rods. Noticed the 34 & 35 Ford Coupe stockcars in Auckland looks like Wairaka Park? or Western Springs. Had an uncle who use to race stock cars back in those days at the park.

 

Great shot really enjoying all the Bruce Maclaren photos.

 

Concerning the flat 12 rail - two zephyr 6's put together it wasn't the McConnachie Brothers. It was Max Numby or Mumby and his mate Clarkson who both ran BanTrans Engineering Penrose Auckland. They were challenged by Ron Hogan (Hogan Heads and manifolds for SV V8's) to make something themselves when they tried to buy a Cadillac v8 engine off him to go drag racing. The 12 never ran well with the triple carb setup seem to go ok with the single carb though.

 

Toledo TraveLodge

 

Little Thing

 

James Dean



James Dean






New Sheriff in town LOL

 

^^^^^^^^ Road draft tube.

 

I must be of the age where steam was gone before I started paying attention,I do not remember ever seeing a steal locomotive on the tracks and do remember seeing those early diesels.