History CW's Bonneville Pics the WAYNE KOEPPE Collection

the Chrisman Coupe, this was in '54, that year a big lightening storm came thru, the lightening came done onto the salt like someone was throwing glass rods, it hit the salt and shattered like glass, SCTA told everyone to get in their cars and get off the salt.......we stayed to watch the show.

 

more of # 176......

 

more.........

 

early photos of the Burke LaSage or maybe Belmont Sanchez Stude.......

 

55 T- Bird......
anyone out there have some history on this Bird?

 

more coupes......

 

And more.......

 

My ol' Buddy Gene Thurman's "T" Coupe, it was about 3' tall !

 

cool pics, thanks

 

Think that the top one with San Diego Roadster club is Fred Lobello, anyone else know for sure?

 

Duane Steele's T roadster. Track nose is a sprint car tail. Engine was the Bob Giovanine '25 4 engine that powered the Spurgin/Giovanine roadster 1947-49. Bob sold the engine in 1952 to Duane. Now to those Ram tubes, They were Duke Hallock's idea that fed Duke's own fuel injection setup. in 1949 the team of Spurgin/Giovanine ran 135mph I can't remember if the engine blew that run or the return. The roadster at some point of the run was said to be doing in excess of 150mph.

1949


The 1925 Chev roadster was bought by another Albata member Carl Borgh in 1954 for $600.

 

I'll be back, I need to feed my face.
Got a few Sporty Cars and some Drag stuff coming next......
stay tuned...............cw.

 

Would love to know more about the '34 sedan, saw it in '59 at Bonneville, sort of metallic bittersweet orange...then it went drag racing, got wire wheels on the front...made HRM, sometime in early '60...I next saw it at Fontana, the crew pushed it down the fire-up road, apparently the throttle stuck, and it went into a phone pole at full throttle, think it was pretty much destroyed, didn't want to look -- never found out who owned it -- it had "Bear Customs, Inglewood" in small letters above the rear window...anyone know more about it??

 

I think that this might be Knot Farrington's first version of the T-Bird that he later radically streamlined...he was from Lousiana...think he ran a blown Chrysler...again, anyone else know for sure?

 

Man I love these old B'ville pictures. I'm always in awe with the creativity of these guys chasing speed records. Thanks for posting them.

Doc

 

The 230 AS 55 T-Bird belonged to Knot Farrington who hailed from New Orleans. The car would later be streamlined and powered by a 430 cubic inch Chrysler with a fuel injected,6-71 Supercharger would run 219 mph at the 61 Bonneville speed week braking his own record of 217 at the same meet.

 

wow - thanks for posting all this god stuff....and good morning to ya - JimmieB....

 

Great images!! Thanks for posting

 

epic! Thank You

 

Awsome stuff thanks

 

SoCal Coupe with blown flat motor......

 

Thanks for posting... What an amazing collection. Got some of everything, can't wait to see more.

 

Thanks everyone for your input, I'm going on memory and it's been a very long time ago!!

 

another Stude.......

 

Sports Cars......

 

I think this little coupe ran a Hemi with a speed of 217mph, it was painted powder blue.

 

one more.......no ID here.

 

Well, here some more photos of the Knot Farrington Bird. He finally got it up to 242 mph which is cooking in anybody's book

 

Ryan did a feature on the Guy Mabee Special in 2007. Ran '53 got into the 200mph club

 

DRAG RACING....I think this is Great Bend Kansas, the frist NHRA Meet. I'm not sure of the year.....maybe 54?. Art Chrisman, Ed Losinski from here in Downey & Art Arfon. Ed Losinski would later drive Harry Duncan's Streamliner the X City of Burbank Liner, Ed flipped the Liner at speed on the salt, the car was destroyed but he lived to talk about, that ended his racing career.