Vintage shots from days gone by!

(Mar Vista is the neighborhood next to Santa Monica at the west end of Los Angeles)

Born in 1937, Craig bought his first car at the age of 13, a little deuce coupe. Three years later, when legally allowed to drive, he got his supercharged V8 1934 Ford Hot Rod Coupe up to a remarkable 154 miles per hour on the Mojave Desert dry lakes burning alcohol fuel. Four years later he later drove a supercharged "belly tank" Oldsmobile engined streamliner to 236 mph on Utah' 5 Bonneville Salt Flats.
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Growing up in the 1950s in Southern California, the car culture capital, may have had something to do with Craig deciding a career in speed. He won his first drag race at 16. By 1958, at 21, he was clocking 236 mph in a supercharged Oldsmobile "streamliner" at Bonneville.​

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His father, Norman, was a motion picture studio special effects man. Breedlove's mother, Portia, worked at the studios as a dancer, performing with the likes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Craig grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Mar Vista and went to Venice High School. After school, Craig worked at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica as a technician in structural engineering, where he learned many of his design and engineering skills before taking on fire-fighting duty in Costa Mesa.
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Annihilate a world record with something built in your driveway.

Nowadays all of them guys would be wearing space suits and would be working out of some massively-funded shop.

We have gotten way too specialized.

 

Since it probably gets mighty hot in there what valve controlls the a/c.

 

50 years .........



http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34k6o_the-flintstones-intro-video_fun

 

"In 1946, .............. microcar, a 50-cc two-seater, a “motorized shoe”. It was rather underpowered, ........................ The car, which had a length of 2.3 meters (7.5'), weighed only 86 kg (190 lb). The engine was placed right into the rear axle."

 

An Austin 7 (Bantam) streamliner of Roy Newman:

 

Regia:

 

Ahhhhhh

one sad car and one mad car............

 

41 foot long Studebaker - 1930:



http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/23/studebaker-builds-worlds-largest-auto-%E2%80%94-41-feet-long/

 

The "d" ring hanging down from the center in the picture, is the overhead cab vent lever (ac)

 

Just like cranking open the windshield and cowl vent on my 37 chevy p/u,I would hate to think of all the heat that thing put out and those were some tough guys that ran them.

 

GMH Dandenong 1962

 

What's with the "haz-mat suits"? Grinding leaded seams?

 

1957 Chevrolet with Coleman
4X4 Conversion

Note the filled in stock front fenders
used to accommodate the raised cab.

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COOL, Twin! What's this early proto-hotrod? (Just guessing it's
a pre-war job.) Any background notes on the pic? And any guesses
why the box on the firewall? I could guess lots of things, but I won't
even go there. Funny, they cut EVERYTHING of, yet kept the running
boards.

 

No idea what is underneath - I'll probably get myself in trouble, but my guesses are: the can on the firewall is a makeshift gas tank... wheels look to be '30-'31 Ford... but the cowl and engine look more like stovebolt 6 Chevy, c. 1930 (?). If this was a Chevy to start with, maybe the rear mounted gas tank got lopped off, and had to be replaced somehow, so the firewall mounted makeshift tank filled the need for these guys. Wish I knew more, sorry.

 

I remember the article long ago in Special Interest Auto showing the car and it's demise by burning in the mid thirties.Mostly wood as i remember.