VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Rootie the #8 car completely throws me. But is the other car one of the Karl Hall cars of the late 1940s?

Thanks!

 

That is at Arlington Tx. 1949. This was a non-points race held for the filming of the Gable/Stanwyck movie "To Please A Lady" The driver of the Hall car is Milt Frankhouser and #8 is the Keys Spl. driven by Jud Larson, in his Champ car debut. Don't know anything about the Keys car other than it appears to be I-6 powered.

 

Headers look to be Wayne Chev 6 12 port... 1949 would be real early for them. Great photo even if it’s for a motion picture.

 

It was a actual race with a purse and all, and although it was scheduled to accommodate the filming it wasn't staged, it just didn't pay any points toward the Championship. They blended in footage from the race into the movie.

 

Thanks again Swi66. That big Imperial sure looks affluent next to almost 10 year older Chevy. So do his two-tone shoes. Must be curbside veg n fruit market as there looks to be a scale hanging from the top of tin Woody's tailgate.

1 more car I promise, Rex Winter
Dry n windy Lubbock TX

 

WOW, hard to believe it's still there.

 

Someone mentioned that the rollbar looked funny, looks more like a rack for surfboards, one end in the floor board the rest leaned against the bar... just my opinion. BigO

 

The young boy is now 80, and his aunt is 99 and living in an assisted living facility

 

426 4 speed

 

Alkire Truck Lines terminal was several blocks down the hill from my grandparents and I remember hearing them pull the grade during the night.

 

She would have way too much class to say so but, she probably never was impressed by snarky a-holes with grease under their fingernails.