Art & Inspiration Cars with numbers (picture thread)

similar look of a Willys Coupe, black wheels, red primer paint, black fitted tow bar (under the car), and pristine chrome accessories… etc

Hello,

When I think back to our first 671 supercharged SBC days of wonderment, I remember that we had the Stromberg powered 283 motor during the first several months of running. Then we stopped all racing and got into tearing it down for some upgrades. My brother was getting better at his starts and said we needed more power to be extra competitive.

He achieved his goal at the beginning, a "streetable" SBC powered coupe that ran low 13’s in the Quarter mile at Lion’s Dragstrip and could be taken out for a fun evening of cruising around our Bixby Knolls hot rod cruising grounds. To top off the evening, a full power blast down the Cherry Avenue Drags location, while heading for the closest gas station.

Jnaki

We wanted to finish off the Willys Coupe with paint and shiny chrome bumpers, etc. But, decided to make sure we were in good shape with the new 671 motor, so, we left the red primer look. I wanted to at least make a temporary huge number on the side of the doors as a first step to it final phase of paint, full upholstery, final speed part for the total ready to race appearance.

When I asked my brother if we could put on a big 60 on the side with B/Gas lettering, he said lets do a chalk up first. We used the cardboard cut out patterns and made a chalk outline of the large “60” on the door. Then over to the side and lower on the panel behind the door, B/Gas.

We used our barbeque charcoal bricks to color in the outline and it turned out an odd black. I have to say, it looked rather cool. But, no one saw it except our mom when she came out to the backyard garage to tell us it was dinner time.

By the time we towed the Willys Coupe to Lion’s Dragstrip, as we got inspected, we were given a 92 B/G designation, but, it was in white shoe polish on the driver’s window, facing the tower on all runs. We had wiped off the black charcoal drawing we did several days earlier.
1960
After the day/night’s worth of racing, the shoe polish got wiped off and the next time we arrived, we got new numbers in white shoe polish on the same window. Each time we arrived, a new shoe polish number was different, but always on the driver’s door side. (it was also the tower side for identification) Finally, it allowed the return road dragstrip guy down below the Orange tower to see what number was on the window and coordinate it with the gobs of timing slips for each racer that just made a run.

 

One of my favourites from here on the hamb.

 

My 1926 speedster

 

Their numbers are up

 

Badass

 

My avatar says it all for Ak Miller's Pikes Peak racer back in '64. I have seen this critter resting in it's unworthy spot, and it kills me !! Ak's Mexican Road Race hot rod carries a number that he used a lot.... And that's why I used it on my wee Almquist racer..... The pic with the '63 is actually a Ford magazine ad for the new "406ci" engine. The number 311 was a leftover from Pikes Peak in '63....

 

Saw this on the Instagram, I like the grill

 

Definitely Reading, I was probably in the stands!!

 

some roadsters I saw on Instagram

 

My drag coupe has had 65 on the side since the 60's and it remains there PROUDLY. Also has it incorporated in some pin striping on the deck lid , also from long ago.

 

Same number. In reality, only the starter needs to know the number before he/she sends you off.