Best I can make it out (rotated & full-size), sidewalk writing says 'you will find some thing heaped up in a red cloth ....' The kids in the background look a bit too gleeful; I wouldn't open said red cloth. Michigan ND, '40 ~
US Army testing the Amphibian. An Amphibian machine returns to land with inspecting army officers after a spin in the swift Niagara River in Buffalo, NY. The land watercraft has been offered to the army as a reconnaisance car circa 1941.
I was there a few years later with my cousins enjoying the bumper cars, my first experience driving a car alone, what a big deal for a little kid. Thanks for the picture.
I think this is George Metzler although I can't identify the track. Ed Metzler was George's uncle and had been a riding mechanic as well working for the Mike Boyle team under Cotton Henning. From what I've heard Metzler became something of a go to guy for the various teams that had Maseratis after Henning's death.
It's at Goshen N.Y. 1946. Here's a pic of the car owner Jack Dixon and the one-off Clemons engine that powered the car.
WOW… If it didn’t have lettering, I’d swear this was my ’64 Plymouth that I ran in SS/A with a 426 stage II max wedge short ram two 4 barrel’s in mid ‘60’s.
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