Dry Lakes Racing - The pioneers of Hot Rodding would drive their rigs on a Friday night from the Southern California basin out to Mirage and the Muroc lake beds. After sleeping on the dry ground overnight these guys would wake up Saturday mornings remove what they could from their rigs to save weight and run their times all day.
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This was my favorite version of the Topper car, except for the horns. All the other's and especially the current are ugly to me.
Let's talk about this over a cocktail and I am sure we can work something out that won't involve the insurance company.
state and pearl st albany ny. Schaefer had a brewery on the Hudson. was torn down for I-787. my parents swore it used to taste good when it was made there. It was near the Bab-O cleanser plant. the sign in the pic is mounted on the bank of america in today's time. It is the oldest continually run building as a bank in the US. it has been a bank since 1814? way back anyhow. they added stories, but the main lobby is all hand painted scenes of early ny stuff. celluliod was invented here for cheap pool balls, and wound up landing albany an important part in early movie making. that was up near nipper. biggest rca dog left in us. 28 ft tall, 4 tons. this warehouse part of broadway was the truck dealer district. there are old faded signs/ masonry details for IH, mack and brockway
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