VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Don't forget the big guy in the middle, who built the engine and appears to be checking the plugs. His name is Keith Black...

 

In order to change the weight class of their car, tires were filled with helium causing the pit crew to take usual measures till the car was brought to the line.

 

1910, Brooklyn ~

 

That will buff out.

 

Note the iron brackets at the bottom of the door jamb, a leftover from the wagon/buggy days. The wheel or tire would hit or ride up on them so the wheel hub would clear the door jamb. Bob

 

^^^^^^^^ Dealership to the left was Bergdoll 30. Bob

 

Now you see? this is the gitzensnorker and it slides down into the flambulator matrix and connects to the rotating thinga-jiggy......

 

Early slot car drag racing.

 

Roth at a recording session.

 

I don't know for sure but this looks like both racers broke. They used to make them push the car the length of the track to get the win.

 

Same guy that lettered Jungle Jim's Car ?

 

Not sure. I was a random facebook post that I borrowed.

 

Slot car drag racing wizard Bob Braverman on the left. He built home made magnesium frames and wheels and was also a talented modifier of Pittman motors. Six volt armatures on high amp 36 volt battery power, it was the 1/25th scale equivalent of running a 392 on fuel. I spent a lot of time and money doing that when I was 14-15 years old.

 

I love it when you say the "gitzensnorker
slides down into the flambulator matrix and connects to the rotating thinga-jiggy"...

 

As a kid I remember a junkyard in East Taunton had this fleets old trucks,White Mustangs.

 

What year would you say this is?