Vintage shots from days gone by!

First wheelie

 

How about a Dodge weapons carrier chassis with a pair of flat head Fords ...



http://www.bmhcomic.com.au/comicbook/index.htm

#5 is the "Double V8" in one of its guises (the other is the BMH).




http://forums.autosport.com/lofiversion/index.php/t93148-1400.html

and in another guise.



This one has previously been posted in the Auto Racing 1894-1944 thread by "onelung". (The car wasn't constructed until post war).

The car was road registered in South Australia for some time. It raced at a number of venues. It was fitted, at times, with extra radiators to assist cooling. It had, at times, water cooled front brakes.


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The constructor was Eldred Norman (1914-1971). [He was married to author Nancy Cato]

http://www.collingrovehillclimb.com.au/eldrednorman/

http://www.fefcholden.org.au/techinfo/supercharge/index.html

http://www.mgccq.org.au/nostalgia5/Memories of Eldred Norman - a larrikin innovator.pdf


The supercharged (Norman supercharger) Zephyr Eldred Norman Zephyr Special /Eclipse Zephyr;






http://wwwbollyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-on-eldred-norman-zephyr-special.html

later photo:



http://www.collingrovehillclimb.com.au/photographsfromthepast/


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http://www.bmhcomic.com.au/comicbook/index.htm

 

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1964 Bathurst

 

http://aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=76011

1963 Bathurst

 

http://aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=76011

"Beetle spun Caversham hairpin (Shell Corner)
and was in reverse-Studebaker hit front "gently" and spun back the right way-small dent on Beetle bonnet and Studie fan went through radiator."

 

What is this, the first Volks Rod? Gary

 

Blue Train Special.............






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Model T........??

 

My 71 SS396/ 4sp. No options, plain Jane, one piece front bumper, no consul, steel wheels with dog dish hub caps, non posi, no power steering, sure miss that car. The buyer put it into a post. Ran in G/S at Cauga, ON.

 

Origin of the engine stand.

 

What an American icon and moment in time.
What from today will prove as timeless and become as scarce?

 

Ahhh, the good old days...

 

There is one of these for sale on the Internet,Hemmings i think,saw it the other day.A Cadillac dealer here in Detroit used to have one sitting at the dealership in the lates 60"s.

 

Vincent Price, "House of Wax", 1953







Casablanca, 1953


uh, oh...not PC

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo7qoonzTCE

 

Never will see Leslie Nielson in the same light again since "Naked Gun"