1965 - 2nd Annual Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races. Tom McEwen (left) and Butch Leal take in the sights as the competition progresses. 1961 Driver Marvin Panch (R) chats with Pontiac dealer Monk King of Denton, TX, before the running of the Daytona 500 NASCAR Street Racing Brooklyn's Third Ave., between 29th and 17th Sts Don Garlits, who would become one of NHRA’s top 50 drivers of all-time, gives some pointers to driver Jim Kaylor prior to a run at the Kissimmee Airport drag strip.
Canadian motorcycle racer Yvon Duhamel aboard a BSA before a race in the 1960s. Duhamel was one of the most versatile riders in the sport, running both road races and on the dirt tracks Drag racer and builder Hayden Proffitt in front of his garage, Hayden Proffitt and Associates. Proffitt, an alumni of the Mickey Thompson race teams. 1905 William K. Vanderbilt Mercedes as he prepares for an early drag race fellow driver E. R. Thomas, against the Stanley Steamer of Louis S. Ross and the Napier of Arthur MacDonald. 1965 Riverside 1905 This Stanley Steamer, driven by Louis Ross, won the first “official” automobile drag race at Ormond Beach, FL, during January 1905.
1961 Liz Taylor and 6-year-old Christopher ride the Dodgems at Bertram Mills' circus in London. 1960s LINE OF 1920s MODEL T AND 1930s MODEL A FORD AUTOMOBILES Street Scene, Dubuque, Iowa, USA. 1940's New Orleans
1959 Cadillac Fleetwood series 75 built for Queen Elizabeth's 1959 tour of Canada. Mopar contributed an Imperial limousine with a similar bubble top. Ford contributed a Lincoln. A limousine was flown ahead of the scheduled arrival in each city. I have never heard what became of this "bubble top Caddie". There are pics with the Kennedy's in it as well as Nixon.
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