Vintage shots from days gone by!

-Betty-Walker

 

Cripes, the gall of some people posting photos others have already posted.
Gary, that roster of racers that used Columbia Racing Engines back in the day was a "whos who" of NW drag racing. I know/knew a few on that list myself.
A couple of names that go back before I got into drag racing is the Wehling and Simonson dragster. I bought some of my very first real racing parts from Nick Wehling when he was working at Exhaust Specialties in Beaverton. I'm pretty sure that his partner was Terry Simonson who sold a blown/injected big inch 392 hemi engine to a guy I knew many years ago.

 

Yep I posted that page on my "great Oregon Racers" thread, somebody else posted their program as well! Some of the classes are wrong, but if you went to Woodburn you knew those names!

 

Found some of my Woodburn pics on a guys site, he gave me credit! They are all over the web now, particularly since they were on George Klass site! Little did I suspect FIFTY years ago my Instamatic pics would be seen throughout the freakin' WORLD!!! Weird!!!

 

ZZ Top – I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
Well I was rollin' down the road in some cold blue steel,
I had a blues man in back, and a beautician at the wheel.
We going downtown in the middle of the night
We laughing and I'm jokin' and we feelin' alright.
Oh I'm bad, I'm nationwide.
Yes I'm bad, I'm nationwide.

Easin' down the highway in a new Cadillac,
I had a fine fox in front, I had three more in the back.
They sportin' short dresses, wearin' spike-heel shoes,
They smokin' Lucky Strikes, and wearing nylons too.
'Cause we bad, we nationwide.
Yeah we bad, we nationwide.

Well I was movin' down the road in my V-8 Ford,
I had a shine on my boots, I had my sideburns lowered.
With my New York brim and my gold tooth displayed,
Nobody give me trouble cause they know I got it made.
I'm bad, I'm nationwide.
Well I'm bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, I'm nationwide.

 

HAR!

 

Glad you found that image. I've remarked before, that just two years earlier to this moment, some guys at some car mag (maybe it was HR) had set themselves down with sharp pencils and calculated that physics showed it impossible to exceed 200 mph in the 1/4. I remember reading it and big-eyed thinking "well tat's that!" (I was a kid, raised Baptist, and I believed EVERYBODY).


Then Big Daddy comes along and says "well what about THAT boys?"

And the silence was deafening.

I really would like to find that other article!

 

I like this one. The photographer did an excellent job counterposing the escape with vehicle against conformity of architecture.

(You do know I'm pulling that straight outta my arse?!)

But I do like the image.

EDIT
Hey, whaddya know?! I looked that image up and it was done by fellow Detroiter and Pro Photographer "Todd Webb".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Webb

Todd Webb (September 5, 1905 – April 15, 2000) was an American photographer notable for documenting everyday life and architecture in cities such as New York City, Paris as well as from the American west.[1] His photography has been compared with Harry Callahan, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and the French photographer Eugène Atget.[1] He traveled extensively during his long life and had important friendships with artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams and Harry Callahan.[1] He photographed famous people including Dorothea Lange.[2] His life was like his photos in the sense of being seemingly simple, straightforward, but revealing complexity and depth upon a closer examination. Capturing history, his pictures often transcend the boundary between photography and artistic expression.

Anyway, I thought learning this was neat!!!

 

Different photos and cars. The original one is a basic 4 door car and looks like an ocean location. The second one is a GT but on a lake!!! Both OT cars of course

 

The city that means DEER

 

I believe that was Roger Huntington, an engineer and a genuine hot rod guy. I can't recall who he wrote for, maybe R&C or Pop Rod. I dunno, somebody can look it up!
Remember 1 hp per cube was still considered amazing for street cars, 1000 hp in a 392 was unbelievable!
That WAS a long time ago!

 

Sure it's the late 60's, hotrods, motorcycles...Beer, and also a few ladies along the way. Not necessarily in that order.

 

The McDonald's restaurant concept was introduced in San Bernardino, California by Dick and Mac McDonald of Manchester, New Hampshire. It was modified and expanded by their business partner, Ray Kroc, of Oak Park, Illinois, who later bought out the business interests of the McDonald brothers in the concept and went on to found McDonald's Corporation.

In 1937, Patrick McDonald opened "The Airdrome", an octagonal food stand, on Huntington Drive (Route 66) near the Monrovia Airport in Monrovia, California. Hamburgers were ten cents, and all-you-can-drink orange juice was five cents. In 1940, his two sons, Maurice and Richard ("Mac" and " Dick"), moved the entire building 40 miles (64 km) east, to West 14th and 1398 North E Streets in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant was renamed "McDonald's Famous Barbeque" and served over forty barbequed items.

In October 1948, after the McDonald brothers realized that most of their profits came from selling hamburgers, they closed down their successful carhop drive-in to establish a streamlined system with a simple menu of just hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie. The carhops were eliminated to make McDonald's a self-serve operation. Mac and Dick McDonald had taken great care in setting up their kitchen like an assembly line to ensure maximum efficiency. The restaurant's name was again changed, this time to simply "McDonald's," and reopened its doors on December 12, 1948.

 

Indy 500 1930's