Vintage shots from days gone by!

OMG!! Wonder how this turned out for the driver?

 

Caribou? Looks like Cam Ranh Bay.

 

He came out OK. This was the Jim Nicoll crash at IRP.

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/24004-jim-nicoll-a-man-who-raced-on-his-terms

 

I'm not sure of the story but this Big Car still exists and has been restored.

 

^ Nice car! Thanx for sharing the vid. Gary

 

i don't know. they were in with a bunch of family slides from the sixties. i was hoping someone could identify them. my uncle was in the air force i think they may have been his.

 

Superman flies in to check out a crash

 

Jim was alright.Don (The Snake) was emotionally junk.

 

Is it just me, or does the entire pavement look like a sheet of ice?

 

It looks pretty icy - maybe the driver used the excuse "I need to take a photo" just to get out of the car and get his fingers to relax from their death grip on the steering wheel.

 

Reminds me of a trip my wife and I made years ago to Mount Hood.
I think the finger indentations are still in the armrest.

 

probably to "shake out back of his pants"

 

Looks like "Going to the Sun Highway" in Glacier Park

 

Ah yes. We sat up on Cabbage Hill (Emigrant Hill) above Pendleton in a school bus for 5 hours with the swim team waiting for the emergency vehicles and tow trucks to untangle the 5 semi-truck knot created by excess speed and icy conditions a few years ago - my husband said the mountainside looked like Christmas with all the flashy lights from his Pendleton viewpoint. That 6 mile 6% Grade gets them all of the time. I can chain a school bus in no time as a result of driving Eastern Oregon in the winter. Battle Mountain is another fun one in the snow and wind headed towards Ukiah and Long Creek.

 

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A bomb test site, Yucca Flats.

The reviewing stand is still there on the hillside.

 

Car club in Portland back in the day. photos courtesy of Gordon Thompson.

 

PIR, 1976 it's really not so vintage, but some days it feels like a million years ago.

 

Street Cleaners !!! What an interesting name for a car club.
Jimbo

 

Those were the days Maggie, first time I got to see a rear engine dragster was at PIR in the early 70's. Made my first ever 1/4 mile pass here and quite possibly drank my first (legal) beer at this very race (as a spectator).

 

When you have been on black ice on a road like this, you WILL need to clean your shorts!
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Poor Paul...

 

..... sure this is already on here, but WOW ... a blown flatty roadster, with cut down rear fenders and bias plys !! Badass as badass can be ....

... and this ? Sheesh', can't help myself.


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