Vintage shots from days gone by!

Yeah sure! The NOLA police are going to give Fats Domino a ticket over an inspection sticker! That would be something to see.

 

Hey Slick, what happened to the fancy 3 bar flippers on that Bonneville?

 

DANG!! I didn't want to leave the wrong impression! YES I was talking about the Willys......

 

Caught by the drive-inn movie police- been there ,done that!!

 

I would be grinnn too if I scored a 65 Goat!!

 

Rough day at the office.

 

^^^
1950's child safety seat!

 

Yeah, and I'm sure he took your advice and never left New Orleans.

 

Hey!! How'd that Merc sneak in there? Guess it wanted to get a Caddy transplant..

 

I see two Mercs. If they waiting for engine transplants, I like to have the take outs.

 

I was still riding on one on the 60's!

 

The first attached photo is of the two Kurtis 500A roadsters for Roger Wolcott that had Chrysler V8 engines in them. A great experiment that didn't work all that well. George Connor and Johnnie Tolan were the drivers. The Chrysler dealer Murrel Belanger had another of these stock block roadsters with the same result.

The second photo is of George Connor in 1948 as part of the Bennett Brothers/Cotton Henning team. I see that this car is listed as using a Miller engine. Is there any background on this car, Rootie? Could this be a pre-war car that was redone by Myron Stevens?

Thanks as always!

 

I believe the Connor car was originally the #32 Sampson that Bob Swanson first drove in 1939 with the V16 replaced by the Miller inline 8.

 

Rootie is just sensational in his picture and history of auto racing!