Vintage shots from days gone by!

The Ganzer, Palmquist, Weeks dry lakes roadster represents innovation at it's best. There are ten carburetors attached to the front-mount blower. Ganzer says that at idle it sounded like a Model-T and wide open it sounded "...like ten thousand of them."
I like that description.

 

Here's a good trivia question for you to lay on your buddies: Who was the first woman licensed by NASCAR to race against the men on the West Coast?
That's her in the jalopy, Hila Paulson (Hila Sweet today). It was December 1956 at Gardena Stadium and she proved a very worthy adversary. Car builder Ummie Paulson had hotshoe Rufus "Parnelli" Jones driving his racer before he moved on up.

 

The Santa Monica Road Races were held 1909-1919. Put on by the city, auto dealers, and real estate developers, they were used as a promotion to bring people to Santa Monica from across the country. The course (which can be run today) ran from Ocean & Montana to Wilshire Boulevard, uphill to San Vicente and back to Ocean. Barney Oldfield, Ralph DePalma, Eddie Pullen, and Terrible Teddy Tetzlaff competed in what were the biggest race meets in the country at that time.

 

The year is 1902, Pasadena. It's Waldemar Grant Hansen at the wheel. A machinist by trade, Hansen developed metal machining techniques and provided engine parts for the Tourist Automobile Company, a Los Angeles automaker at the time. He regularly tested his machines on the apricot orchard roads in and around Pasadena and Altadena, eventually leading to the Pasadena/Altadena Hill Climb events of 1906-1909.
Nice radiator - no??

 

University of Southern California car wash, 1959

 

Kids from Los Angeles High School 1958

 

Old racing cars at San Gabriel... Horseless carriage club, 1952

 

Automobile show at Pan-Pacific Auditorium, 1952

 

Back in the day, they liked to show off their chassis - good reason too.

Edit: I should have said something about the nice body on the chassis, but I bet someone else will think of it. Ah well

 

I think I might have seen this one on here before, but it's a cool image

 

Caption says 7th Street and Broadway, 1956 but I question if it might not have been a couple of years earlier....?

 

LA Transit strike, 1955

 

Hot rods Pomona. 120: L-R: Carlos Ramirez; Mike Magem; and Joaquin Arnett, with modified roadster with ford engine who held top speed for the day at 118 miles.

 

Val Peyton, 1929 model a ford in spite of a broken hip he received in auto accident manages to work on car with crutches. Hot rods, Pomona, 1952