History El Mirage Colour photos from 1948-49!

SuperFleye posted a link to these amazing colour pics on a thread I started. I thought they deserved their own thread http://www.scta-bni.org/EM_1948_photos.htm They are from the collection of Warren Durkee Courtesy of Jill Durkee-Burgoyne

a couple of samples.

 

WOW! thanks!

 

Thansk Jamie - I bet you couldn't contain yourself when you saw these pics.

Whats the SCTA doing hiding them from us??????

 

Wow! Thanks for posting this Jimmy.

 

Like a kid in a Candy store.........

Not sure.

Ray Brown's T roadster showing its nose behind Marvin Lee's Lakester

The Spalding Bros. Orange T roadster in background next to the Path & Moore streamliner.

 

Great photos!! Still the coolest place in the world (except July).

 

wow thanks .makes me want to get my roadster back out to the drylakes in may anyone else want to go out there? billy

 

I'll be there with my sidecar.

 

Awesome! Thank you so much for posting these!

 

WOW... fantastic photos... Thanks Jimmy.. Thanks Sondre

 

Exellent more more more

 

Thanks Jimmy. Made my day.

 

Gimmee more...please!

 

Bump

 

WOW! Awesome photos!! I was there 2003, it was a blast!!! Just hope I can save money and go for Bonneville in the future.


LARS

 

AWESOME!!!! I love the one of Stu's Streamliner/modified being pushed off. The Color is great!

 

Some great pictures

Thanks for the Link Jimmy ........









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Wow !

 

Great pic's!

 

Cool pics guys.
The Rock

 

I thought this car was only in the red/white theme. Learn new things all the time. Thanks for the post.

 

That is the original So-Cal tank it was rebodied with the streamliner body in 1949. It crashed at Daytona Beach in 1951 & was then scraped.

 

Wow - who would have thought that!!

 

The backgrounds are as cool as the foregrounds!!

I dig the red wheels and caps on a couple of those cars!

 

You're right Jimmy, these awesome photos deserves their on thread. When I first found them my first thought was that these has to be taken from "The Birth of Hot Rodding" book... but after a second look I realized that they weren't. On the site, some cars have captions. But feel free to name cars featured on the photos. Except from the ones mentioned above I recognize Paul Schiefer's 1925 Ford:

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More info about his roadster can be found here: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Paul_Schiefer's_1925_Ford

And ofcourse the Giovanine/Spurgin roadster....but who doesn't that



I'm also suspecting that this is Warren Durkee's roadster (the guy who took the photos):



The Stu Hillborn Streamliner:


But does anyone spot Waldo...err, I mean David Newhardt in any of the photos?

 

Walt McClung accident in Blair Speed Shop roadster he walked away after rolling it.


Johnny Hartman roadster, The Spalding Bros. had a hand in its construction.


So-Cal Liner same chassis and running gear as the bronze and white 555 bellytank.


Marvin Lee Lakester AKA "City of Pasadena" streamliner




Paul Schiefer roadster my 2nd all time favourite roadster.


This modified is not Phil Remington's nor was it built by him. It was built by Bill Warth in the late 30s, Karl Orr bought it from Warth. The nose on the Warth/Orr modified was updated with the nose off the Warth/Hilborn streamliner as Hilborn and Eddie Miller formed a new nose. Karl Orr won the points championship in '42 so wore the prized #1 after the war when racing resumed in '46. Karl ran the modified until '47 then sold it to the team of Path and Moore who ran it in '48-49 which is how it was pictured here it was updated in '49 with a sprint car tail section to run better in streamliner class.


Here it is when owned by Karl Orr




This is the Phil Remington Modified

 

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Jimmy..... I hope you record an oral history to preserve your knowledge before you go to that great dry lake in the sky......

 

There's time, all being well he's got another sixty or so years to do it.

 

You mean there was color back then??!?!! Love the shots, good to have them out for hot rodders to see.