Hot Rods The Official Track-Lakes Roadster Picture Thread...

Just a casual drive back to the pits? Thinking about some changes, or how to explain that missed shift? Gary

 

What a great photo Gary !!! Cig and all ...love it
Thanks, Ron

 

Ron, I just liberated it from another HAMB thread and added the wise cracks. Nothing to it. Gary

 

Bump

 

Neat roadster !!! Love the irony...Bridgeport Spl.
Someone stole the bridge?
Ron

 

Super nice ride! At first I thought you might be English... as I think their rods are required to pass a fording test to be elligible for the Hayride! Gary

 

Ha! Ha! "Bridgeport SPL" was given that name by the builder, in honor of Bridgeport, CT which is/was considered the machinist capitol of the world.

I wanted to take a shot from the car's other side but the creek's a whole lot deeper over there!

Pic taken somewhere around Appleton Store, which is near where the last Confederate stand was made in Tennessee during the War Between the States; probably Sugar Creek near county lines. Around here many county roads don't have bridges where the county lines are defined by creeks.

 

All the very best in 2013 everyone ! Since the world didn't end, you might as well start building that vintage roadster that you always wanted...
Ron
p.s. See you in Detroit

 

Just saw this - photoshopped in front of The Royal Crescent, Bath, England (the shadows don't look right to me).
Great lookin' little car.
Cheers.

 

Do you know what years it ran?

 

Making some progress
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=431579

 

Hope we get to meet you at the Detroit Autorama next month. The Ghost Rider Roadster will be in the lower level this year and we plan on morphing it every day around 3:00 from the street version to the land speed version. The new show card that Myles (son that works for free ) reflects what we plan on doing. We will be looking for you !
Ron

 

nice post

 

Maaybe a reminder from our childhood will re-light the flame on this thread. Here is one from mine.. little roadster built for me by my dad; I was 6 !

 

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A photo taken at the Detroit Autorama, I lifted from the internet. Thanks to the photographer !!!
Ron

 

Some pix from the Oakland Speedway, circa 1949---With a little 1949 skin!!

 

To answer post #403 about the former Pete Allen car out of Ohio. This car would've ran between 1947 to about 1952-3.
HG

 

A shot of 2013 Detroit Autorama Extreme, just to get this thread back to the top....
What a great show !!!!
Ron

 

drool!and a bump

 

TROG entry 2014

 

One from our area in Canada, flathead power, raced on a circuit in the late forties-early fifties. Everything's as is, looks like you could fire it up and go.

 

^^^ all 3 built by "Dutch".

 

What a great thread, funny how you can miss something on the HAMB an spend a good part of an evening looking at it. Way back on post #212 hotrd32 posted this photo. I found this one while looking for another car photo in Veda Orr's Lakes pictorial that was published in 1947. Bob

 

This is a shot of the Riley from Veda Orr's lakes Pictorial published in 1947. Bob

 

Three nice ones from the distant past.

 

Man that first one took that turn so hard the drive slid over to the other side , steering wheel and all.