Vintage shots from days gone by!

Is that car in front of the racecar a Mercamino or an ElMerco?

 

Good trick , angle parking with a caravan hanging off the back !!

 

A Hamill SR3 [driven by Bob Johnson # 99 at Riverside in 1965]

 

"Yeah, you can take a picture of me, but when that truck carrying the Top Secr..., um, when a truck comes through in a few minutes, you'd better have the camera put away."

 

'34 Packard.

 

"Naw, drag racin's straight line. I don't need a steering wheel."

 

Michigan train station..... Yesterday and today......

 

I don't think Walt would be happy to hear some of his employees need to live in their cars.

 

You would be twice as lucky if you had four doors.

 

Great shot. Action this side of the pit wall, excited crowd that side. Only Colin Chapman standing on the wall, in the shades and dark clothes, looks calm.

 

Merchero

 

That ‘56 looks like it’s in stealth mode.

 

The crew is the Wood Brothers [probably the world's best crew at that time]

It was at this event where Chapman taught the Wood Brothers how to Stagger the rear wheels for oval track racing [and weight jack some wedge]
The Wood Brothers introduced it to stock car racing
Nowadays if you didn't have this knowledge, you wouldn't make the back of the grid at a local dirt track.

 

is that tammy wynette?

 

if you're ever in st. louis, the museum of transportation has one of those locomotives. pretty cool!

 

sigorney would have been about 10 when that episode was filmed.

 

douglas fairbanks sr. dad used to caddy for him and chaplin in the '20s.

 

FWD?

 

i think that's mitchum's "50" from "thunder road."

 

Milwaukee '63

 

Happy Birthday Betty 97 today !