Art & Inspiration An on topic car Photo that just brings a SMILE to your face.

My '29 (now in Japan and known as "DEATH RACER") towing the Rolling Bones Bonneville roadster to the start line. Keith Cornell, Ken Schmidt, George Poteet, me, Dave Moyer in no particular order.

 

Driveshaft in my old coupe

 

Rod dog

 

I just saw this on the FAS, and it made me SMILE!

 

Bowling Green, Beech Bend raceway. Oldest boy behind the wheel of Hemi Hunter after not driving it for 9 yrs while was in college, getting hitched, having a kiddo and such. He did good I was proud of him. 10.50/128 pass.

 

Now you know where a a lot of the 177,000 56 Ford Victorias went!

 

The two men I am named after- My full name is Robert James Palmer

My paternal Grandfather Robert Nelson Palmer (a seventh grade school teacher and jack of all trades), My Aunt Ruth, My Father Willard Palmer, and my Aunt Mary Lou with the family 53 Chevy.
I still own the Scotch Cooler in this photo-



My maternal grandparents, James (Jim) and Anna Brazie.
I wish I could tell you the Ford had a full house Flathead, or a hopped up 303 Olds,
but other than the spotlight it was a bone stock 36.



My dad building his 64 Chevelle Late Model



Myself and my father with my 53 Chevy.

 

Being fortunate enough to hang out at this guy's shop. Contributing a few parts to the cause. And, I took a friend with me who just happened to have a lot in common with Marty. Jeep racers from 50 (?) years ago.....my friend lost his wife two months ago on their 47th wedding anniversary. He couldn't stop talking about Marty on the trip home (90 minute drive). It was a good day!

 

Not really Bill ran that car with that body for about three years. Just as most guys ran the same car and body for multiple years.

I don't know where this idea come from that they would beat, bang tear up a car and go get another.
These were working class guys guys with families they couldn't afford to buy and build four or five cars a year.

Also how would they have the time?
They would work eight hours or more at their regular, repair a totaled racecar or build a new one during the week be ready for the next Saturday night and do this every week during the summer?

It seems that would get very tiring and expensive very quickly.

 

first pic is my Daughter on my Dads car, second is her Son in the same car( now mine)

 

My 1st HAMB friendly build, before the HAMB existed. My 35 Dodge 2 door slant back sedan, after I drug the pile of rust home. That is actually partly mocked up. The entire body came home in the bed of a pickup. The youngster is my son, probably around 6 or 7 then (he is 40 now). That was about the time I figured out I was going to have to build a frame from scratch. It took me 3-4 years to figure out how to do that. I worked for a guy that built trailers, and he went on a two week vacation and wanted me to keep his shop open while he was gone. With his permission, I built the frame and attached the body onto it during those two weeks. Then the car went back to my garage until after I opened my welding shop in 94. The car got built at the shop evenings, after working all day. My son and my wife both participated in that build.
This it the same car. I put the roof back on in its original position. At the time of this picture we had driven the car 77,000 miles over 7 years. I ended up selling the car the next summer, painted flack black with flames on it (no pictures of it flamed). The car was replaced with a 54 Dodge pickup I had already built and was on the road. We took the 54 that replaced the 35 to our 1st HAMB drags (probably the 2nd or 3rd HAMB drags).

 

Look good in my brothers 66 SS Nova he will never finish.

 

My daughter helping clean the windows at this year's Detroit Autorama

 

From about 7(?) years ago at Bonneville during Spedweek. Old building at Wendover Airfield.

 

These 2 pics make me smile...

...my high school girlfriend and my high school hot rod.

...and this handsome bastard took her to Senior Prom in that '48 Chevy.

 

.......WHAT!...No Green Tux?!!

 

No Don LOL...but we smoked a shit-load of "green" (home grown) that night.

 

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Me and my son building the t-bucket about 19 yrs ago, he still loves that car.



A few months ago, him and a girl he was dating at the time

 

Grandsons trying out my 31 A for size

 

Me, the fall of 1980 @ Woodburn dragstrip. My 409 wasn't as fast as it could've been, but at the end of the day, I'm smiling. This memory still makes me smile.

 

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great pics...I'm smiling ear to ear....

 

Our daughter cleaning my Catalina.

 

Ridin’ Shotgun

 

39-40’s are chick magnets