History Odd Helmet ID ?

Not mine, just trying to help out a pal. Made by Bell-Tex Long Beach CA. He was told it was a drag helmet but I have never seen one like it.

 

GV,
It just looks like the early Bell full face helmet to me. I think they called them a Bell Star or something like that. Would have been made in the late '60s?

 

Looks like that robot on the day the earth stood still. Manum tsum niktoo. Or something like that.

 

Yea, definitely has that vibe going on.

 

X2 for early Bell. Knew a Harley flat tracker who had one very similar if not the same in the mid 70's, fixed lense.

 

Yea that's exactly what I was thinkin'!

 

Shirley 1974

 

Indy racer Gordon Johncock used to wear one with a narrow eye opening like that one. Maybe even when he won his second in 1982.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4545193342_14826103ef.jpg

 

Bell (and others) experimented with a lot of different eye openings in the 70's, even ones with two separate eye holes. I think the one pictured was a Drag Race version due to it being so long below the eye opening. This would have dug into the chest on Open Wheel racers.

 

I believe the robot was called "Gort".