Vintage shots from days gone by!

Sunbeam Rapier.

Cool little car.

Mart.

 

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I'm gonna say it's a Hillman. I had a Hillman Minx in 1966 & 7.

First 'new' car I owned after a used 1957 yellow Pontiac Convert
that my Dad bought to keep me in school. That didn't work but I
had to after I quit.

 

Ding ding ding ding. We have the winning answer.
It's a 1958 Sunbeam Rapier Series ll.
My dad drove this right off a new car carrier to photograph the first one his dealership received.
He kept it too and enjoyed it for many years.

 

I'll make a guess. Since I am almost always right.....
The angle the valves sit on a wedge engine means the valve stem exits the top of the guide toward the center of the engine off center from the bore. This drives the rocker pivot closer to the center of the engine. As a result, intake runners have to be longer and are usually pushed down. Exhaust ports are shorter and more straight than their intake counterparts. You add the runner profile to the fact that, on paper anyway, it might be easier to put two blowers on this way instead of trying to cram two in the middle, you end up casting and machining a special set of heads. Hindsight says that he could have probably developed a 14-71 at that point in time for all the effort he put in this.

 

SA 1920021 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

Is that Gene Evans?

 

Wow, two great photos of George Bignotti and Freddie Agabashian. Most people today don't realize that Bignotti ever raced at all.

 

Thanks Redsdad. Something to think about, but I'm having trouble envisioning the final setup. Now that we know that this was one of Mickey Thompson's Pontiac adventures, isn't there someone out there who has a definitive answer as to what the hell is going on? A photo of the assembled engine would be really nice...

 

Probably, famous folk used to attend the Round-Up quite regularly.

 

Portland, Oregon

 

Pendleton Woolen Mills re-issued these jackets not too long ago, some things never go out of style.

 

Not sure where this house is - but I hope it still exists.

 

New Orleans?

 

That house is ( I think) The Frank Lloyd Wright house in Pennsylvania. Falling waters or something like that.

 

Falling Water was all angles and cantilevers ~

Similar ideas though with the stone anchoring the wood and lots of glass - tres trendy back then.

 

At first glance, this building could be easily mistaken for McDonald's first corporate headquarters! Gary

 

Is this a model? It's convincing but the foliage doesn't look convincing to me. Too much punch.
looks nice though.

 

You are showing one photo and apparently talking about the one with all the fall foliage. Their ain't no foliage in the gas station type picture.
As for the first house several photos back, it looks much like those by Frank Lloyd Wright up around Spring Green, Wisconsin.

 

Rootie, do you happen to know which car this is? I really like the weight jacker setup!

 

That's a young Bobby Grim in the Hector Honore City of Roses car in the first photo. And Jim McElreath in Dizz Wilson's car on pavement somewhere. It might be at the Little 500 but I'm not sure.

 

I'm not positive but I believe that is the Metal-Cal roadster. I thought the torque arm set up was kinda interesting.
Yes, that is from the Little 500, 1961 the year he won.

 

look closely you may see a bit of studebaker hawk in there

 

standing second from the right is ALLAN MOFFAT FORD TRANS AM winner and Australian race champ 60s 70s