Lynn Bird assembled a terrific album of 1930s hot rod racers at the Gilmore Gold Cup at Mines Field in 1934
Pharr, Texas had no fire department and no equipment until Pershing passed through looking for Pancho Villa and brought down hose reels with them. When WWI started up, they left those hose reels behind
The SCTA today remains to keep the "beauty chop" for 48 and earlier bodies running in the gas coupe class 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"
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://georgeklass.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
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.