Wife taking the picture knows her husband has a 1million dollar life insurance policy.... tells her daughter to tie their mastiff Brutas to the jack...
Really nice 1920's photo, one of the earliest I've ever seen with a car equipped with safety runners under the front axle. The idea was the car would ride on the skid if a wheel fell off and not flip. Bob
NHRA National Drag Races - Oklahoma City - 1957. The Masters Auto Supply Dragliner Special from Oceanside, California was built by owners Dode Martin and Jim Nelson. Aerial view of the Indianapolis Raceway Park drag strip, parking, and pit areas. 1958 Don Garlits of Tampa FL and Jim Kaylor of St. Petersburg FLwork on the engine of the Garlits dragster before making a run at the Kissimmee Airport drag strip. Art Arfons at the wheel of his “Green Monster” jet dragster in the early 1960s. 1965 NHRA World Championship and Tulsa Invitational Drag Races
1957 NASCAR Daytona Flying Mile and Acceleration Runs Emanual Zervakis' Chevrolet 1959 Bonneville National Speed Trials Mickey Thompson's Challenger I and crew. Four Pontiac engines Flying flag man 1955 Indianapolis 500 Jimmy Daywalt drove the open wheel version of the Kurtis 500D Sumar Special (#48) sans streamlined bodywork and enclosed wheels and cockpit.
Abernathy brothers, age six and nine. The photo was taken in 1910 and it was not taken at a car show. It was taken in New York City and it was taken because those two kids Louis and Temple were about to drive that car back to Oklahoma pre-production 1965 Chevelle Malibu SS. The gills on the rear quarter did not make it into production.
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