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  1. I was in Portland last weekend, man I love that town. Defiantly didn't see these cars running around, mostly Smart cars, and Tesla's.
     
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    I remember, as a schoolboy, visiting the main Jaguar dealership here in Nottingham, England in the summer of '61 to look at the just announced E Type. I was completely gobsmacked. It was as though it had just landed from another planet. With a friend, the salesman allowed us to climb all over, and under it! Somewhere I still have the original brochure with a gunmetal grey cover. In the '80s I went on to own two.
    Years later, visiting the London Motor Show with my ten year old daughter, we were invited onto the Rolls Royce stand. Despite my explaining I could never afford one, the salesman allowed Hazel to sit in and enjoy everyone of the cars on show. It made her day!
     
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    Bob Morton got his first taste of hot rodding when neighbor Jim Tucker and Arnold Birner involved him in the building of a roadster with a 4-port Riley. It wasn't long before Bob had saved up enough to buy a roadster with friend Dale Riley.
    While still at school, Bob got a part time job at Ansen Automotive (run by Jack Andrews and Lou Senter). He was soon building engines for the company, working on their midgets as well as customers' hot rods.
    In 1948 Bob made his first trip to Rosemond where he survived an end over end flip due to a rear wheel separating. He returned the following week to set a Rusetta record with the Tattersfield-Baron belly tank.
    At the early age of 18, Bob was getting a reputation as a competitive and highly skilled engine builder. He ran his engines in George Rubio's '29 Roadster setting top speeds at Mojave and SCTA meets. In 1949 at the first SCTA sanctioned Bonneville meet, Bob came 3rd in the C class with a top speed of 135 mph.
    For Bob every weekend was spent at the dry lakes running Ansen cars or customers' cars with his own engines. from 1948 to 1950 he successfully raised the stock bodied roadster record to 144 mph to 148 mph, eventually becoming the first to do 150 mph in May of 1950.
    In the same period he also ran his engines in seven different cars including Ak Miller's T Roadster, running 150 mph at the SCTA-AMA shootout.
    So good were his engines that the top cam grinders used them as testbeds. Isky, Howard Johanson and Clay Smith all used them as did Charley Nordens for his carbs and 180 degree cranks; Ted Halibrand for his Q.C. Center section; Howard Johanson for his first fuel injector and Tattersfield-Baron for their heads and 4-carb manifold. Most of Ansen's speed equipment was also tested on Bob Morton's engines.
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    Bob Morton's first hot rod, 1947. Shown with Bob is his mom. Bob Morton Collection
     
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    Morton-Rubio This car ran at the 4/18/48 Mojave Timing Association meet and turned a speed of 112.92 mph. George Rubio of the Roadusters placed 9th in class B roadster. The '34 behind the car belongs to the Roadusters team of Shaw-Melchert. It ran 106.26 mph and placed 15th in class B roadster. Bob Morton Collection
     
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    Bob Morton age 16 in 1947 with pasenger Louis Senter posing in Bob's '29 Ford roaster. Louis Senter Collection
     
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    Front view of the Tattersfield-Barron tank at a Rusetta Timing Association meet. Bob Morton Collection
     
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    Bob Morton ran "The Old Mule" road racer 128 mph at Lake Clarles, LA in 1952
     
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    Bob Morton's roadster in primer. Bob Morton Collection
     
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    The remains of the Morton-Rubio car after the crsh at El Mirage. Bob Morton Collection
     
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    This it what was left of the Morton-Rubio roadster at El Mirage on 5/7/50 after it crashed. Driver Bob Robinson didn't survive. Bob Morton Collection
     
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    Santa Ana Drags. 1950. Bob Morton's dad tuning Bob's engine installed in Herb Ast's coupe. Bob Morton Collection
     
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    The Tattersfield-Barron car is shown at the second annual Southern California Timing Association Hot Rod Show in January 1949 at the California State Guard Armory. The ten day show was signifigant for being the first Hot Rod exhibit to be seen on television. Bob Morton Collection
     
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    For $25, Bob and Dick Pierson acquired a rusty 34 coupe that was to become one of the world’s most famous hot rods. With the help of Bobby Meeks and the Vic Edelbrock crew, the Bros created not only the sleekest looking hot rod of its time but one that outran the competition. Its top was chopped 5 inches and the front was given a hand formed nose.
    After running 140mph at a Russetta meet, the SCTA, wary of their rival’s timing equipment accuracy, invited them to campaign 2D at their meet. The clock controversy ended when 2D turned over 150mph. The Bros won 3 out of 11 classes and was second only to Alex Xydias’ So-cal streamliner
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    PHIL REMINGTON has been involved in every aspect of motor racing. From a young hot rodder on the dry lakes, Phil soon became involved in professional racing. He was part of the Shelby Cobra team; the Lance Reventlow formula One team in Monte Carlo and Dan Gurney‚'s All American racers team at the Indy 500.
    As a teenage member of the Santa Monica Low Flyers, Phil Remington kept the company of legends such as Vic Edelbrock, Stu Hilborn and Phil Hill. After the war he campaigned a modified Model A with a Flathead setting a class record of 136 mph at El Mirage. Soon Rem was building intake manifolds for Eddie Meyer while building Indy cars for millionaire Sterling Edwards. After that he spent some time with Stu Hilborn. In 1960 he worked on the Scarab and later moved on to join forces with Shelby and the Ford Le Mans Racing program.
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    Otto Ryssman
    In 1947 Otto took a '34 Ford Coupe to Rosemond and turned a respectable 112 MPH. The following year he campaigned a '29 roadster with a Flathead Merc. As a member of the Gasketeers, Otto's racing career and timing tags expanded. The young Otto soon struck up a friendship with legendary cam grinder Chuck Potvin. Potvin converted a 12-cylinder Zephyr ignition over to an 8 as well as converted the carburation from gasoline to alcohol. Otto's hot rods became the tools for Potvin's fuel and cam experiments.
    While Otto's success on the lakes were due to his ingenuity and determination, his friendships with the likes of Earl Evans, Vic Edelbrock Sr. and the young and brilliant Chet Herbert accelerated his learning curve in a few short years. When the Santa Ana drags opened up in 1950, Otto and partner Tiny Conkle began to experiment with dragster design. While many people believe The Bug was the first sling shot dragster, records indicate that Otto and Tiny were the first to invent it.
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