Vintage shots from days gone by!

Jack Benny & Bob Hope !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

^^^^^ Y-Not^^^^^

 

And Al Jardine of the Beach Boys in the background.

 

LORD,I WAS BORN A RAMBLIN MAN.........

 

agreed.......models.....nicely modded revell white c.o.e, (love to see the garbage body.......)pyro 49 ford...1/32nds.....the kits ARE approx. pre 66.......both still avail!!!

 

That's a photo of Jack Turner's 1963 crash that I've never seen before. Thanks for posting, Rootie!!!
Notice that there are louvers in the bottom of the tail under the fuel tank. Somewhere around the late 1950s USAC made it mandatory for the tails on Championship cars to have some provision for fuel running out if a tank leaked or was involved in a crash. The Watson cars seemed to have a fairly large rectangular cutout while other builders went the louvered route like this one. USAC also made it mandatory for the fuel tanks to have a layer of fiberglass applied to the outside of the fuel tanks. A few years back I spoke to a mechanic who had restored a 1959 Kurtis and he told me that he had had to build an entirely new aluminum fuel tank. I asked him why and he said that a steel tank was in the car when he got it and it must have been leaking because someone had coated it in fiberglass. So he scrapped it and it went to a recycler. He didn't realize that the tank he had was the original one and that they were made of steel at that time and did have fiberglass on them. I guess it just depends on just how "original" he wanted the car to be.

The second photo of the Russo/Fageol twin engine car is also interesting. There has always been some question as to whether or not this car had supercharged midget engines or normally aspirated ones. At least in this photo I don't think I see any superchargers. Am I missing one somewhere? BTW, this was the first Indianapolis car that Floyd Trevis built which was done at the Fageol factory in Kent, Ohio. And I always wondered just how they started the engines in the car. Did they just start one engine and pull out before engaging the drive on the second engine to start it once the car was moving? I certainly don't know the answer.

 

Here's a couple more shots of the Fageol car and yes it does appear to have been supercharged

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They aren't kits, they are all 1/24th diecast from Franklin Mint & others.