Vintage shots from days gone by!

B dragster owned and driven by Jimmie Brock of Indianapolis and sponsored by Bud Gates Chevrolet.

I was present the evening George Gruber applied the lettering.

 

It's a 59 Ford wagon.

 

Got way behind so I'll post these and backtrack.
Richmond, IN:

I'm guessing this '54 Merc was a Sun Valley with the plexiglass insert removed.

San Angelo, TX 1948:


Love discovering shots like this one! Greeneville, TN:


More as I find 'em .

 

Smart kid

 

Filming Route 66

 

At the races.

 

Oh God, yeah, you're right.

Whoops!

 

Actually only limited to DOT hazmat and passenger carriers, unless changed since I retired. But NO over the road driver would think about it. We did have concrete and dump truck customers that ran super single retreads on the steer. Of course low speed and local.

From a investigation done by the RMA when I was in the industry, where the gator backs were actually collected from all over the nation's highways and analyzed, the major cause of failure was from tires run flat or under inflated. The majority of "cheap" retreads were bias ply tube type tires on container chassis. All they had to do was make it from the railyard or port to the first drop. It took us two years to physically convert one large fleet to radials.
It was ALL economics: The service call and down time was more than the "cheap" tire.