Wow, I can't thank you enough for posting these pictures. This is great history. Please keep em coming.
Man! It just keeps getting better. Thank you a thousand times for this. "Listen Mr... It ain't broke if I can't fix it"
Oh my, this has to go down as one of the great all times HAMB threads. Thanks for sharing the great photos and info with us. I'd imagine that a lot of those photos will get studied for hours on end.
Up at five in the morning and I find this. What a way to start the day. Thanks Mike for your photos and stories.
A real hot rod history treasure! As much as I appreciate seeing them here, they should really be preserved for posterity through being publishing in a book, or an article in TRJ. Wonderful stuff.
Thanks for posting these. I don't consider myself a historian or an expert on this stuff but from someone who has tried digging up info on old dry lakes/Bonneville cars (see my previous posts) this type of thing is invaluable. Everyone on here that has old pictures laying about should take a lesson from this. This information needs to be preserved. Keep 'em coming.
So neat seeing these pics and and reading the history behind them. I fear that with the electronic age preservation of today's similar items will not be as coveted or permanently recorded in personal archives like this. Yes everyone takes pics and saves them on hard drives, computers, etc... I seriously question today's longevity in preservation. Hopefully I am wrong. Still keep what you have coming! AWESOME stuff!
View attachment 2722540 View attachment 2722540 Again...thank you to all that have sent feedback!! I am so glad to see that I am touching so many! As long as you are interested, than I will keep posting away. Thank you to loudbang for cluing me in on the "post all as full size". My Grand Daughter just mite think I'm worth saving after all!! HA! Who said you can't teach a old dog new tricks!! I need all the help I can get. One of the things I'll always remember my Dad telling me, was how they used to drive [yes drive] some of these cars to El Mirage to run them! Now this was a 2/3 hour drive one way! They would get there early, sleep on the ground, in cars, wherever they could. In the morning they would start stripping everything they could off the cars to get the weight off. Lights, seats, bumpers, etc. After the meet, they would put everything back on and drive 2/3 hours back to Pasadena! When men were men!! So here ya are, I'm sending more for your enjoyment. Check out #250 B. Are those "OSHA" approved rocks holding that car? Just wondering.... I really love to hear you comments! Keep em' comin". View attachment 2722540
Amazing!, fantastic!, stunning! Throw any superlative out and it doesn't seem good enough. What did tickle me was the photo album. I have been doing the same thing for a few years now. I have an El Mirage album and a Bonneville album. Why? All too soon all my efforts will be nothing more than memories. Your memories are something we can all enjoy and rather than imagine what it was like we can see what it was like. And suffer a bout of jealousy.
If this stuff don't bring up some swelling of your eyes, you don't get the hot rod thing. Fantastic stuff. Jack
Thanks for the Feedback. I really hope that you continue to preserve all that you are doing today, so that your Children, Grandchildren, and all your Family can enjoy them also. And hopefully many more. I thank my Mother and Father daily for the wonderful gift that they have bestowed on me, and my family. And as some of you have said, we hope this will inspire more to dig out the old photos for all to see. It really does no purpose to just sit in a draw, or closet and collect dust. History, no matter what kind, is meant to be enjoyed by all. As I said before, I can only hope I am doing a small part. Thank's again! And keep checking in...plenty more to come.
Before I get to far down the "proverbial" l want to post the program that had Elmer Omohundro's time in it that my Mom had written. The one that matched is timing tag. Car # 390. Also want to throw in one from April 24/25, 1948 that my Dad and his brother are in. His name is Wilmer McNatt #372, and his Brother is Glenn #371. There is also a page out of the same program that has the duties of all the clubs to do at the meet. I think it's interesting to see how many club's there were. Again, I hope you enjoy.
View attachment 2723776 Another couple of pages for ya. Some are not the best quality....but considering with what they had to work with!
This is the best thread I have seen on the hamb. Please keep the pics coming and thank you for posting them!!!
By far and away the best thread on here. The photos and information make you feel like you were there. It gives those of us who were are too young a sense of what dry lakes racing is all about. Home brewed racers. Thanks again and if you have more please post them.
Man thats a nice Cad powered 32 with a open frame windshield, and a cuttie to boot. Then the little T that ran 110 with a 21 stud and what looks like a Thickston manifold. The big tires on the rear make the Kelsey wheels look small. You know you're killing us with this stuff Mike. Thank you and keep er going!!!
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