VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Lynn Bird ***embled a terrific album of 1930s hot rod racers at the Gilmore Gold Cup at Mines Field in 1934

 

American LaFrance Senior Firetruck 1935

 

Pharr, Texas had no fire department and no equipment until Pershing p***ed through looking for Pancho Villa and brought down hose reels with them. When WWI started up, they left those hose reels behind

 

very early roller skates

 

best grille for a 59'

 

Harry Mann's 3 tail lights.

 

The SCTA today remains to keep the "beauty chop" for 48 and earlier bodies running in the gas coupe cl*** against later model cars.

 

those p-40s might not have been the most effective fighters of the war but, "damn they looked good with those shark mouths"

 

Speed Trap?

 

Things haven't changed much in Chicago

 

I've seen this picture a million times on here but never in color.... Thanks!...

 

Gina Lollobrigida

 

Ron Benham and Paul Aicher built this innovative dragster using a Hispano-Suiza 4-cylinder engine. For some reason a number of these French-built aircraft engines made it to the U.S. where they were popular in sprint car racing...
http://georgekl***.net/dragsters.html

 

racing on beaches isn't new, Ormand, Daytona, and Mablethorpe are well known, but this is the first I've heard of Balneario Camboriu in Brazil

 

Pennsylvania Central Airlines ground support truck.

 

Check this link

https://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/hispanosuiza.html

 

The X/D was at an early March meet......painted "4 ball" purple. Really exceptional build
but don't remember if it was exceptionally fast. Obviously a step above most X/D builds.