Vintage shots from days gone by!

Coulter’s, Wilshire Boulevard, 1939

 

Spring Street at 2nd, 1939

 

Wilshire Boulevard at S Westlake Avenue, 1939

 

Broadway, 1939

 

Wilshire and South Grand Avenue, 1939

 

8th Street from Main, ca. 1930s

 

Rootie, who is in what looks like a Lee Elkins #83? Appears Leroy Warriner is standing behind it.

Len Sutton looping it in 1961 500. He drove through an oil slick hard on the brakes, ergo...

 

Mike Nazaruk.

 

ah thanks Rootie

 

Hey pal, you think I can get a ride to Hollywood and Vine?


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And here's Sutton's car yesterday at the Speedway just after turning laps on the oval during the historic car runs. The Offenhausers and 4 Cam Fords sound so much better than today's V-6 Hondas and Chevrolets which are actually very quiet by comparison.

BTW, the 1963 Troy Ruttman Jim Robbins Kuzma laydown blew its engine big time yesterday as well. They were picking up engine parts for 15 minutes afterwards. They even found an almost complete piston that had come out on the track. I guess they still haven't figured out all of the oiling issues with the laydown Offies.

 

...Shi...iit!...

(If this is from a movie, I do not want to see it)

 

Thanks for the picture Indy! Glad it/they are preserved.

 

pretty sure it is a 73-4 455 Super Duty, not a HO. The shape of the center exhaust flange gives it away.