Vintage shots from days gone by!

Where is is from on the web

 

That better be 260.

But Officer, some guy on roller skates cut me off.

 

What a Great picture from the best days of Drag Racing!!

 

Can somebody explain this truck to me, it's a '57 I think, but hood ornament and grille aren't right. Sorry if this is a stupid question..

 

1957 GMC 100 series with the optional hood ornament

 

Thank you! This was my assumption.

 

"Blaring" get the hell outa' my way!!!!!!!!

 

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Milwaukee

 

Take a trip down GM's "Tunnel of Love" and visit the Heritage Center-you won't be sorry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=endscreen&=R=1&v=RvVmDsWnMOk

I'm a Ford man but this was cool.

 

The Flying Wombat.

 

Front straightaway at Heidelberg Raceway just outside Pittsburgh. Some of the ones I know: V-2 is Dick Linder, 1-A is Joe Mihalic, the car behind the #7 I believe is Herb Scott's #180 and the 33 is Bill Wolken. Boy, does this take me back to my youth. The Pittsburgh Racing Assn. drew some enormous crowds with some of the best dirt track racing around. These guys were my heroes!

 

Re: post #48821
top of page, top photo... I think its a shame that the little fast back was never produced as it may well have outsold the Marlin, and been a much more serious contender in the early pony car wars. Is it a one-off? Still around?

 

Pic posted by SWI. Yup, in my op, this was a TRAGIC mistake on the part
of the company. The short-WB version was what Dick Teague preferred,
too. As a dumb-ass kid in the '60s, the bigger version just didn't seem to me
to fit ANYPLACE in any market niche. Like a car that couldn't make up its
mind what it wanted to be. So, the little pony cars just ran off with the
market. AMC did much right in the lower-price markets. But HERE was one
case where they screwed the ol' pooch. Shot themselves in the foot.

 

I laughed out loud at showing the camel the engine bay ...." LOOK NO WATER NEEDED !!"

Thanks again for all the Corvairs

 

Dick Linder was one of my heros of the dirt track guys here in Erie PA, His son, Dick jr, also raced and is still around running a version of his fathers scrap yard, Dick still has a lot of Flatmotor parts and lets go of maybe one a year
Some others from that era - Rich Bonnel, Dean Layfield, Squirt Johns, Ron Blackmear, Tom Dill, Emory Mahan, Dick Litz - My brain's giving out - Oh, Slammin' Sam LaMancouso

 

So its race cars you want now... How about Smokin' Joe Merola running his Tucker in NASCAR?




This car is the second oldest NASCAR automobile still in existance !

I guess Corvair lovers will like this photo as well as it is a rear engine car

 

I love this thread!

 

Do you have any info on where, when and how many races he ran in this Tucker? And the results?

 

ГАЗ-24-95

 

ГАЗ-24-95 (Gaz 2495)an experimental model

 

Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, the icebreaker Krasin, or Lenin.

 

Car Gaz -20 (victory), a car in 1950s. USSR

 

This TU 124 passenger aircraft

 

Funny thing...........
I was actually a fan of the Tucker when I was a kid, and even had some literature about it including the 1948 Tom McCahill Road test, and the later re-test.


The Corvairs came later to me.
Could it be because I will never be able to own a Tucker, I settled for another rear engined car?????