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Very sorry to hear about your loss 296ardun...... Nes Synadinos- Millwinders.
The Millwinders Heavy full fendered fuel coup faced off against a Rail Job that day in the final fuel car race after fuel race eleminations were...
Raver-x if you are referring to the Millwinders and Drifters coupes shown in the pictures above we were both running fuel and I believe the...
Hi... thanks for posting that picture.. It was taken the same time as the November 1954 Hot Rod magazine picture. That was just staged for the HR...
Its funny, but awhile back my son was looking for a BSA 441 Victor Motorcycle to restore and someone in Dana Point, CA had one for sale on Craigs...
Ardun, was Saugus the strip that had a two lane road crossing the strip at the end of the run with a hill on the other side of the road.. There...
My mind is blank on that one too, although I believe it was on Catalina St, South of Emerald st about the middle of the block. Perhaps Albert...
Hi... I'm not too sure that isn't the Millwinders garage that Emil Wurn rented in the early fifties. The garage that King Coles mentioned in an...
Nice picture of the cover of the Petite Villager Ming Hot Rod magazine november 1954
Not only loud, but ear damaging and somewhat dangerous. You could hear Lions from miles away, especially at night. I think it was because of the...
Hi Karl...I think that Drifters car was the one that crashed and burned. Well maybe not burned, but a total mess. Notice the number 231, that was...
Thanks for the idea, but I don't know any other club members who are left to post about those days. My wife and I were visiting my son Rick and...
Karl, great pictures and thanks for posting them. We ran at different strips winning trophys, but my memory isn't very good about which places and...
Karl, thanks for showing those pictures. I guess you have your new computer figured out already. In the picture of us pushing the 96 coupe, that's...
The Drifters had 3 cars as I remember and they totaled one car. It was a mess. I've seen the pictures somewhere, possibly over at the Drifters...
Hi Karl... About Jack Ewell and his ardun. After Paradise Mesa and the spin out with Jack driving in the meet final, we took the coupe back to the...
Hi... Karl. I drove the Millwinders 96 car along with Emil Wurn. The Millwinders car had rectangular slots cut out of the rear fenders and the...
Regarding towing trailers. On a trip to the Bakersfield or another California drag strip in 1953 we were pulling the Millwinders coupe with a tow...
Strange as it seems, there aren't many pictures from back in those days. Guys from the club may have taken them, but just about all the members...
Hi ...296ardun... the 35 white 23jr coupe belonged to the Drifters from Redondo Beach. If this is a 1954 picture the Millwinders 36 red coupe #96...
Thanks for showing the Millwinders red 36 Ford Coupe. Picture was taken at the Paradise Mesa drag strip in San Diego in 1954 lined up against the...
Dave (King Coles)... how is the family.. I miss Wurn... [email protected]
Checked the 36 Ford over and it isn't the Millwinders dragster. There are too many differences, like the hole cut in the rear fenders on the...
What was really great was riding dirt bikes in the desert for about 20 years... I still have the Maico... Nes
Hi... I believe the pictures in Posts 55 & 56 are from a road trip to Bakersfield around 1953-54. It was a convoy and on the way we were in Emil...
Hi...The Millwinder plate shown in the picture in Post #24 is mine and I furnished a picture to the Car Club plate forum. Nes Synadinos.....
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