Vintage shots from days gone by!

" Oh come now...I bear-ly touched you"

 

A lot of mining and logging railroads in the U.S. were narrow gauge .

 

Looks to be a LaSalle.

 

I am thinking Jerry Lee Lewis and wife.

 

Nice full safety football helmet

 

Wynn's

 

1962 Corvair Monza GT Styling studio

 

No connection that I know of between the two. The guys in the car just resemble those two famous guys.

 

But, probably more fun to polish...

 

The first attached shot is Jud Larson at Daytona in 1959. Notice that they ran the Monza tread tires on the new high banked track.

The second shot must be Pat Flaherty running track roadsters for the Granatelli's Hurricane Hot Rod Racing Association; probably around 1947/48. The only thing that I wonder about is the four leaf shamrock on the driver's helmet. Photos I've seen of Flaherty always had just three leaves.

The third photo shows Jimmy Davies after qualifying the Pat Clancy car at Indianapolis in 1950. Davies could be a pretty tough character as he had been on his own since the age of 14 when he left home. Sometime during 1951 he got drafted and saw action in Korea before getting back to racing in 1953.