Vintage shots from days gone by!

I guess this is what you get when you cross a steer with a hippo.

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And the last of the Harrisburg photos from the 1950's.






There were comments to go with all the Harrisburg photos, but I just don't have time to go through posting them all. But here's the gallery I found the pictures in and the comments are with the photos. http://www.pennlive.com/life/2016/08/harrisburg_from_1950_to_1959_v.html

 

Car 54 where are youuuuuuu?????

 

Well, you didn't have to worry about crushing a fender.

 

Joe Sostilio in the Culp Offy, 1953

 

You talkin ta me?,are you talkin ta me? There's nobody else here, so you must be talkin to me.


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Moe racing from Ormond beach

Here’s some work being performed on a 1905 Simplex on the beach. The big guy appears to be working on the rear sprocket or something on the end of the axle.




Here’s William Wallace in his Fiat race car getting tuned up before a run in 1905



Here is a Darracq circa 1905.



The guy in the wool cap is racer Frank Croker, the car is his Simplex and the year is 1905.




The mighty 1908 Darracq that hammered the sand with its thundering V8 engine.



This looks like the “entry” road to the course itself. Note the curbs built up with sand over planks and the fact that they are perpendicular to the water.




Talk about bad luck this photo from 1908 shows people trying to free up a Cleveland Runabout car that crashed into the remains of a shipwreck.



This swoopy looking piece was undoubtedly one of the more interesting cars of the 1905 speed campaign on the sand. It was built by Renault and M.G. Bernin was the driver.

 

Last of the old trucks

Rapid



Another Rapid















And a bit newer 1959 Apache

 

Wreck of the passenger ship Santa Clara November 1915-Oregon's South Coast.

 

This one is great! Thanks Mart, I've haven't seen it before. This whole area underwent a huge change and lost a very vibrant and close knit community over the years due to short-sightedness by the City of Portland.

 

She looks just like one of my mom's Navy Nurse roommates. It's rather spooky.

 

Portland

 

Hey Mart, these cars are Simca's right? Here's a new one for sale in Victoria B.C. Canada. Or maybe they are Renault's?

 

Not a Simca!!!
Is a Renault 4 cv

 

Prineville, OR - rodeo time

 

Just a note to those of you who post images and stories on old race cars here - if you don't know this, there are already other HAMB threads dedicated to specific types and periods of racing. And while it's great to see what you post here in a general thread, I'm a little worried that your inputs will also get buried here, eventually harder and harder to find as they are covered up, or muted so to speak, by the succeeding avalanche of images. Would it be better to post them elsewhere, like one of the existing vintage oval racing threads, the pre-WWII racing thread, the drag racing threads, salt flat / dry lake threads, etc.? Or even start other specific threads for them? Gary

 

Mine is like it, paint colors, and the no emblem on front fenders. Thank you for the info!

 

Ed Roth??

 

Swi 66, you might want to edit out one of the pics above.. Definitely overstepping what is allowed.