I'm overwhelmed, board track, dirt track, Bonneville... all the best stuff.. I don't know what else to say.. incredible.
How's about that plexiglass hood on the Hilborn streamliner? Like I've been saying... we have under-utilized that material.
WOW!!! So many to love. I want to buy that one with no suspension - where can I find one like that. Wish for a full write up on so many of them. History slips away
@Ryan, Proof positive, the power of the realm of photography, ancient and present and future. That element of frozen, captured moments of time, that will forever give us the ability, to travel back in time, to view some of the most cool and " KICK ASS " racing machines ever constructed! The cool thing is, there is still plenty more attics and basements, where old forgotten shoe boxes, full of old photo's of everything, are still waiting to be discovered! Thanks for posting and sharing these cool photo's.
Wow!! Had to browse through them pretty quick since I'm at work and my to-do list isn't gonna do itself. Definitely gonna spend some more time going through these later.
Total conjecture from the top down on the picture's left. "upper control arm" shock steering "lower control arm" back to the chassis steering link to the other side (behind the spring) Could this act as a small diameter axle?
I see that's a California license plate, (not NJ) but how crazy if that was the Hindenburg and that car that says FIRE on it!
Came here to say this. That is just so killer. I never knew it even had a one made or it. What better way to showcase your fuel injection company that to show it off. Incredible.
Every once in a while a miracle like this happens to remind us why we're here .... Thanks to everyone involved.
Wow, what a treasure! Thanks for sharing it all. Some familiar faces and cars, many new. Seems to be a lot of Nothern California cars in the collection. Great stuff
What is this sports car on the far left which appears to be strapped to it's trailer with a chain attached to a single lugnut!? This one is my favorite, it appears this streamliner was being built entirely in the driveway/attached garage of some small, suburban house. I'm generally fascinated by seeing pictures of the places where these cars were built, I have collected pictures of the shops of a lot of famous builders and most of them are tiny. Always impressed with what they could accomplish with so little space.
Great pictures! I have always been impressed with the fit and finish of what we call "track roadsters". I was not disappointed with the many examples in this collection, My dad took me and my brothers to Twin City Speedway in New Brighton, MN in the late forties and early fifties. To the best of my memory, those cars were equal in quality to the ones shown. We were a little disappointed, because the drivers seemed to care about their cars and didn't have the daring (and crashes) of some of the other classes. The class was called "Hot Rods" as I remember.
Wow. It would be an interesting exercise in photo analysis to attempt to place these in temporal order, from earliest to latest.
This thread kinda pissed me off... I just got a new phone and now there is drool all over it! Should have come with a warning label. Haha! Thanks for the pictures anonymous sender.
Hilborn 'Liner....with a plexi hood? Holy shit. The So-Cal 'Liner....in someone's driveway? Geez-Loweez, man. I'm tagging this thread for further reference.
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