VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

The Golden Bear in HB….great place for live music…spent quite a few Saturday nights there.. I’m sure my hearing is still suffering from it.

 

There’s a lot going on in this photo but one thing that caught my eye is the no. 1 cylinder. The stud girdle is cut off leading me to think Smokey might have used a strobe to check for rocker stud flex. Was he comparing 3/8” to 7/16” studs?

 

I see dead people

 

A Miller eight with a centrifugal blower-



Same engine after a few laps-

 

I imagine that this car would have been miserable on hot day. People would have been popping like inside a popcorn machine.
Or like this toy.

 

Didn’t break a rod or a wrist pin!

 

Think that was the end of a “street race” ?

 

You think that blower was supplying more boost to rear cylinders than the front ones?

 

Like rear main seals on Pontiacs