PHOTOS FOUND: Original LEGION SPECIAL Pics 1940's and 1950's HISTORY EMERGING!!!!

As you know Matt and I started the restoration of the Legion Special after scoring the original shift knob, wheel bearings and rear crossmember at the swapmeet in Turlock in 2008.

Since then we have been searching for original photos of the vintage racer in it's natural environment. After much digging, a few shots surfaced when we purchased some items from the estate of late lakes racer Earl Williams from Haddonfield, Illinois, where the car was originally built. As far as we can tell he had some involvement with the car, but we're not sure how much. In all the shots we have so far it seems to be more in the background.

We'd really love to find some more detailed pics, but we're not sure where else to look. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

Nice Photoshop work!

 

What?!??! I don't even own a computer.

 

WOW you must be telecomunicating all this to us

 

Holy Cow! Dig the sheet metal work from the grill to the cowl on the roadster closest to the HUFF lumbar sign, and again on the dry lake. Beautiful...

 

Nicely done!!!






















Happy April Fool's Day!!!

 

And it happens to be April 1st.

 

Where's Waldo?

 

You guys are so quick to judge and disbelieve. Shame on you.

 

I once saw a note on the back of a counterfeit 100 dollar bill that said, "What you don't know about copying and duplicating won't hurt you"...

 

Very funny. Cool. Slim

 

Yeah...but where's the dude's????

 

Nude dudes?

 

or Manhugo?

 

It does look at home in there though.

 

Rad photoshopping

....add some grain and selective f/stop focus grain to the background and you would be in there like Mr. Belvedere in his underwear.

come on brah...Seriously..... the fonz isn't even in those shots.

Love the car though and the snuggleriffic cockpit.


Rome

 

where's the Fonz ?

 

the original unaltered pic

 

But I did find some pictures of the car in different stages during it's long racing history

 

What other kind of dudes are there?

 

How did you Photoshop it out of there?

 

excellent provenance...next stop barrett-jackson!

 

Special ninja skills on the computer, takes a lot of top secret special training.

 

I'm starting to have a hard time figuring out what's real and what's computer world.

 

Great thread Kirk! I swallowed the hook ...and you had me flopping in the bottom of the boat!

 

KIRK! ...

By far the BEST (& most influential) Aprils Fools thread on the H.A.M.B. today!

Also ... if you look real close at the background of the first photo, you can see some "short skirts and boobs in the sunshine"

 

KIRK!

It would've been better if you just started a new profile and asked what it was worth!!

 

Looks like the left front is flat.....

 

I think that's why it didn't run that day.

 

I really hope you're planning on re using those original wheel bearing. It would be great shame for both automotive and dry lakes history. If you completed the restoration without using such an integral part of the original car.