Vintage shots from days gone by!

synchronized bowling?

 

Drag racing
Hornets were campaigned on dragstrips from 1972 and became well-known by their bold red, white & blue graphics.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-underdog_28-0>[29]</SUP> Drivers on the Pro Stock circuit included Wally Booth (backed by AMC until 1974), as well as Rich Maskin and Dave Kanners captured top awards.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-29>[30]</SUP> Some drivers converted from AMC Gremlins when tests with identical engines in 1973 showed that the hatchback Hornet had an advantage with higher speeds and lower times.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-underdog_28-1>[29]</SUP> The 1974 Gatornationals and the 1976 U.S. Nationals and World Finals were won by Wally Booth driving an AMC Hornet.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-30>[31]</SUP> The Hornets would do the quarter-mile in 8 seconds reaching 150 mph (240 km/h).

 

Found my pics of the Merc transporter & Gullwing I took in 2002.









As an aside, I walked into my local sand blaster today to pickup some stuff & he had a Gullwing shell in there, just been media blasted ready for a full restoration! The restorers were waiting for a dry day to come pick it up!!!

 

Some surf band or other(!!), leaning on an Allard Dragon, a blown 4 cylinder Ford-engined dragster in a London street in 196?

 

Dave Clark 5 ? doh
it would be too easy to cheat,, lol

 

Beach Boys

 

Peter, Paul and Mary?

 

I don't like that surfin' shit, Rock'n'Roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died!

 

damn doc,
i agree up to a point, all the rap crap can just disapear,
but there is some good music post Buddy Holly,,

 

damn doc,
i agree up to a point, all the rap crap can just disapear,
but there is some good music post Buddy Holly,,
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Dude, have you NOT seen American Graffiti?

 

Great just great! This thread is already like crack and now another one to look at
Thanks Keith

 

amen!

 

Francois Hardy, French actress, singer and 60s 'it' girl who played the racing groupie Lisa in, arguably, the greatest racing movie ever made, Grand Prix.

 

1938 Akron, OH

 

Any info on this pic? What car, what happened? Looks to me like whatever it was went over, hope the driver was Ok.

Doc.

 

I'm tired but can't get to sleep so let me toss on a few more.

 

And a few more

 

"This boat is 'Old Glory' one of the boats that raced with 'Liberty the Second' this photo is dated approximately 1 year after 'Liberty the Second'sunk. It is also reported that this boat sunk after colliding with another boat. Back reads in handwriting, " 'Old Glory' speed boat owned by Mr. Geo. J. Huber, Akron, O. On Turkeyfoot Lake. Makes 60 miles per hour. Sept 21 1923."

http://www.centuryclassicpowerboat.com/allegheny/all9.htm




"Vintage Picture of ARROW II Racing boat. Very unique photo of an early piece of boat racing history the photo was by Colonial Studio Sharpsburg, Pa. Actually 'Arrow II'won a heat against 'Liberty the Second'in 1922."

http://www.centuryclassicpowerboat.com/allegheny/all9.htm

 

1955 Chris Craft Cobra



1940 Century Sea Maid Model 53

http://www.centuryclassicpowerboat.com/allegheny/all9.htm

 

"The boat they ended up constructing for Mr. Miles, PDQ VI, was not built until the <!--Begin mp_html_link_24_90f931ab-->summer of 1915<SUP class=itcexpand-super>24</SUP><!--End mp_html_link_24_90f931ab-->.<SUP> </SUP>PDQ VI was designed the previous winter by Capt. Fred Adams and A.G. Miles, and measured 24 feet over all with 7 foot beam; she had a 300 hp Van Blerck engine."




"Hutchinson Brothers did not construct another speed boat until 1918, when Alfred Rogers of Toronto commissioned the Claire. She was a 32 foot by 6-foot by 2-foot 4-inch Crouch design of the celebrated "Cinderella" model and was powered by a FS, six-cylinder, 145 hp Sterling motor that traveled at a speed of <!--Begin mp_html_link_26_90f931ab-->34 mph."

http://www.thousandislandslife.com/...eId/587/PageID/624/Hutchinson-Boat-Works.aspx