Vintage shots from days gone by!

Looks like he took out the two chrome bullet things on the hood. Poor mans Ram Air!

 

I love everything about this old photo. Dirt pits and an occasional tree, and a chilly morning. Street tires stacked in pairs. They were used on the cars while being flat-towed to and from the track. Tool boxes that you could pick up and stick in your trunk. Tool boxes today would require a fork-lift to pick them up. No E-Z-Ups, they had not been invented yet. A drag strip on some prairie somewhere (probably Iowa), and no buildings sticking up everywhere. It was a different time. It's a different world today...

 

Anyone here know how the rear dual axle setup worked???? Just curious...

 

I have pictures from last summer where I am standing in the parking lot in the middle left hand side of this picture. That is the Arizona side. The parking areas have been re-paved, but not much else has changed.

 

Don't know about the sports racer but the Pat Clancy Champ car used 2 Q/Cs.

 

Can't do that now or the whole roof would be dented!

 

Sunset Bay State Park, Oregon Coast 1951

 

Thank Root!!!!!
Just what I needed.....
Could use more pictures if anyone has any....

 

Paving SE Woodstock, Portland OR

 

Salem, OR

 

Pete lovely in the #55 Track Roadster

 

Second row, 4th from the left.

 

This is a good looking track roadster.

 

Ewing & Ewing




Jr Thompson

 

Sidewinder



Swanks




Tony Nancy




TV Tommy Dualie


Yeakel

 

AC piped in ???

 

I had this roadster pic on my computer at work as a desktop for a while years ago. The version I had had "Ike Hanks" written on it.

Edit: found a better resolution version of it with the writing visible:


Mart.

 

THAT'S LIKE, WOWSVILLE, DADDY!

 

Looks like Paul Nicolini in the white pants...

 

YOU IN A HEAP O TROUBLE, BOY!

 

Ike owned it after Pete, here it's on the pole at Portland Speedway in '51. Other notables in the race, George Amick, (2nd @ Indy in '58), Bob Donker (cutaway drawing by Rex Burnett in Hot Rod) Ernie Koch (in Rolla Vollstedt's #1) , and Lemoine Fry (California car). I will have to ask my old buddy Jack Greiner if that is Pete or Ike in the other photo, he will know for sure !