Vintage shots from days gone by!

Nope - it's a deHavilland Beaver.

 

Ur rite took a quick glance and didn't expand the photo. Wingspan on the Cessna was not as long as the D. Always liked 195's. Expensive to operate, that Jacobs radial was plenty thirsty.

 

Nick Arias Jr. is well known for his pioneering work in redesigning engine parts and for the piston company that bears his name. He was born in 1929, in the Los Angeles area of Southern California, during the Golden Age of American auto racing. Nick grew up in the Pico Heights area, a lower middle class neighborhood. He remembers earning 50 cents an hour and how long it took him to save up enough money to buy that first car, a 1932 Three-window coupe, from a veteran who had just come home from the war in 1945. Nick joined 100 Mile-an-hour Club out of South Los Angeles in order to run his car at the dry lake land speed trials in El Mirage, under the sanctioning of the Russetta Timing Association. They raced with the Russetta Timing Association because they allowed coupes to race, rather than the SCTA (Southern California Timing Association) which only would let roadsters run. Later with his friends, Kenny Bigelow, Joe Pisano and others from his high school, formed the Photons car club.

 

An early pioneer of hot rodding, John Athan was as adept at inventing speed parts as he was at constructing hot rods. It is said that Vic Edelbrock Sr., on seeing some of Athan's patterns, was influenced enough to have them copied. John understanding of machinery and inventiveness earned him a respectable reputation among the hot rod crowd.

In 1938, John, along with Ed Iskenderian, found a '32 frame in a junkyard and bought it for $25. For lack of money, John was forced to take a '29 body and fit it to the '32 rails. Unwittingly, he had created what would become one of the most desirable hot rod configurations.

 

Having graduated from high school at the age of 16 Harry Hibler's promptly got on a bus and made his way to the heart of hot rodding. Arriving in southern California in 1951, Harry was soon seen driving and racing a 1941 Ford. While he found excitement in street racing-- often racing from San Fernando to Bakersfield and back for pink slips-- a visit to Santa Ana drag Strip introduced him to a world that would dominate the rest of his life.

 

This is Engine 27 Fire Station in Hollywood which is now a Fire Museum. At this time the Police shared the building prior to them getting their own station.

 

Stan and Ollie