. This used to be Chicago’s front yard, the rail yard was a remnant of the highly industrialized area on the Chicago River in the 1800’s and early 1900’s. Today the trains are gone, replaced with Grant and Millennium Parks, the Chicago Art Museum and more. The building on the right was the Tribune Tower, the newspaper moved out and the building is being converted to condos and some retail. The large white building is the Wrigley Building completed in 1924. I guess the profits from those 5 cent packs of gum added up pretty quickly.
The two Corvettes leading the pack are running 427 Mystery Motors, they needed the reverse mounted scoops for carburetor clearance and Ray Nichels Engineering prepped the No. 50 Tempest with 421 power.
Junior's famous "banana car", with the front end from the cowl forward slanted down and the back end from the bottom of the stock rear window slanted up. Totally illegal even back then. This is the car that created the need for the body templates...
The Jalopy Journal
