Rich, thanks for reposting these- I'm geekin' out about this T gowjob!!! Does it have an A radiator shell?
Harms Way, Oh brother. those action oval track shots are amazing, Do you know where they were shot? A few more from AUTHENTIC HOT RODS, The Real Good Old Days by fellow HAMB member, Don Montgomery. (Don, THANK YOU BIG TIME, your books are a treasure. Slim (Hey HAMB, thank you all for this amazing collection. I feel blessed being associated with you all.)
Thanks Slim,..... These pictures were all of Bill Schroeder (Father of Frank Schroeder from Franks Antique Auto Parts, And Tom Schroeder from "Shadow Rods") Almost all the pictures are from the Michigan tracks,...... (late 1930's - late 1940"s)
This thread is great and brings back a lot of memories of the early cars. I grew up in the early '50. Builders of cars back then has minimal tools and equipment but got the job done with innovation and desire. Welding was done with Oxy/Acet gas or stick, junk yards was the main source of parts, no 1 800 dial a part. Hammers and dollies were the sheet metal tools. Those were the days of innovation and inspiration. Keep this thread going and look in the back ground of the pictures to really see what took place back them. Thanks for the contributions to this thread.
HarmsWay, ouch. Can you be more specific on the Michigan Locations of the tracks. Were they Private tracks and or fair grounds? Any still in existence? Thanks. Slim
Did a search on Hallock screens and read that he made his first one in '30 and only made about a dozen or so in total.When did they first appear in public and when did they dissappear? Any fitted to roadster pick ups? Any pics? Thanks, Mark
Flint Motor Speedway Flint Midget Speedway (Bristol rd. between Saginaw st. and Fenton rd.) Standish Speedway Zeiter Motor Speedway (Detroit) Eastern State Exposition (Springfield Mass. Fairgrounds) Oak Grove Jackson Mi. Fairgrounds Rosemore Park (Davison Mi.) Iowa State Fair and Exposition Center Milford Michigan Speedway Oakland Co. Fairground Motor City Speedway Inc. These are all the names on the Pit Pass tags that were all in this goggle box. Cool Huh ? I am not sure what happened to them but a good resource for the Michigan tracks can be found here http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/speedway.asp It's part of the entire state of Mi. sight, http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/
I believe there was 9 made orignally...in a few different batches... and they were bronze, not aluminum like most of the copies... a few more were made after 1939 when the patterns were given to someone else.... then the patterns were apparently lost during the war... afterwards some copies were made by using one of the originals as a pattern, these didnt fit so well to the cowl due to the shrinking of the metal after cooling.... I believe all of the originals were on 28-9 roadsters, but would have been just as easy to put one on an RPU... I've never seen photo evidence of that though..... I love these windshields just put one on my "hopefully" 40's period car.... (pic by metalhotrodgirl - Jen) and then theres my other car, which is actually from the 30's-40's... and I strongly believe had a Hallock on it at some point....(still trying to trace history) my cars along with ThomasS&C's roadster.... period 40's car also our new project is a clone of a immediate post war built dirt track roadster that my family built my track roadster project is period correct to 1949, sort of state of the art for that year and heres a few shots from our revived club, the FLYERS in 1941 my friend and original Flyers club member Keith Landrigan in 1946 this is my friend and another original Flyers member Bill Farren #214 in 1941... I colored the picture
Does anyone have any more info on the Stu Hillborn streamliner in those pics? Is there an article in an old TRJ about it? Is it still around or is there a clone?
SUHRsc, do you know of any articles about the clone or who built it? I've searched but can't find anything.
Check your old issues of the new Hop-Up magazine. I don't remember what issue it is here at work- but I can check when I get home and pm you tomorrow.
SUHRsc, Thanks for the info,my repro Hallock has suffered from shrinking slightly,should be a relatively easy fix though. Great collection of cars you have there! cheers, Mark
And I'm amazed at how many color shots there are, especially considering how expensive color film (or transparency) and color processing was back then. A big thanks to all who have posted.
Here's a post I put up that will add nicely to this post...tons of old hotrod pics from the '40's and earlier.....there are obviously some '50s pics in there, but there's ALOT of the early stuff - enjoy http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=319789
Perhaps it's because this period coincides with the proliferation of small, affordable, easy to use cameras and the resultant popularity of armature photography.
here is another shot of a couple of coupes built to emulate the late 40's . Did I mention this thread is THE BEST!
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