VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

• Mas Okumura’s 1932 Ford three window coupe in front of a wide variety of other racers.

 

• Thompson’s crew prepairing the sleek “Challenger I” for run on the salt.

 

A Gilmore sponsored machine.

 

Joel Thorne in the Allen Offenhauser Special.

 

Fred Offenhauser with one of his midget engines.

 

A California Special by Emil Diedt

 

Don Lee….Indianapolis 500 Entries….1947


A very interesting Associated Press photo dated May, 5 1947, showing the Don Lee Ex-perimental Engineering Companies two entries for the Indianapolis 500, at an airport in Los Angeles, before being flown to Indiana.

 

• An autumn storefront display decorated with a “Never-Freeze” display and other sundries.

• The shop was visible from the parts store and here a worker is using a dry cylinder honing system equipped with a vacuum to keep the abrasives and cast iron dust out of the shop. To the right a small six-cylinder block sits on a shop-built boring stand with a cylinder boring bar positioned on top.

 

Rare and Desirable Futuristic E & J Model 20 Torpedo Headlamps
July 17, 2021

 

My dads old 1/4 midget the body was made from '40 ford hood .and ran a model a engine .

 

• This 1915 or ’16 Model “T” Ford has been fitted with an interesting camper attachment complete with a draw like slide-out section serving as both a kitchen and table.

 

Models and a L-29 Cord Promote B.F. Goodrich Airplane Tires

 

Jerry Quesnel's beautiful Barris built purple Merc, arguably the first 49 Merc ever chopped. This is the same car as the white Merc shown in the Jim Verden photos posted earlier.

Mick

 

Sometimes the hotties don't know it.
She is one!