Jive-Bomber submitted a new blog post: BONNEVILLE 1954 - Color Footage!! Continue reading the Original Blog Post
Love the footage, only downside of 8mm is there’s no sound John Cobb’s car that’s pictured on the billboard lives a 10 minute walk from my office.
Great little video! Loved watching them drill for putting a tent stake. Now you can use a spoon. Not enuf roadsters! Interesting watching the course with the mountains in the backdrop. And two-way runs. Years ago we made a very early run, qualified for a record, towed down from the 6-1/2 to the 11 where Impound was. Stayed down there for a return run that came just about sundown (sun in your eyes both ways). I went for hamburgers, a 25+-mile drive in the afternoon. I thought SLC could have been nearer.
At the 1:56 mark looks like a streamlined front engine dragster. Hope Marty Strode sees it might give him ideas for his rail project
@lurker mick Hello, @lurker mick has it right. If it was not taken in 8mm and for having that useless printing ruining the whole archive, it may have been easier to get better overall view of the race car. As it was, adding in popular old “Glass Slipper” photos into the overall comparison photo proves it to be the “Glass Slipper” during perhaps the Flathead stage, not the SBC stage. Jnaki I was able to find a similar photograph and in the insert comparison, my eyes accept the “Glass Slipper” version over any other streamlined racer at the time. note: I could not get through the whole thing due to the intrusive lettering... not good. But, as usual… YRMV
Agreed on the Driskoll logo and on the 8mm film, but thank god that the film was first taken and then that somebody saved it. I like the fact that the shooter didn't just take pictures of the cars in action, but that he also filmed what was happening on the salt. I think this movie shows that it really hasn't changed there that much when you compare it to the 'Ohio' George shown in the Utube index. Warren
When I first posted some videos they had no watermark. Within days they were ripped and posted to other channels and in one case I was even asked if I wanted to buy one of my own films (not sure how that scam was supposed to work). All this after the many hours I spent researching, interviewing, procuring, digitizing all so I could share the films with other researchers, at no small monetary expense to myself. Many of the films, photos and documents that I go after and lose are never to be seen again and I hate that. So, I add water mark so that if the film gets ripped and posted on another channel they know it's mine and any information I don't have about the film comes back to me, all while the film is out there for people to see what's available and can find me if they need something from it. When people that own a particular car that's on a film of mine, or have a museum around a particular subject, or the are working on a project concerning that event have reached out to me, I have removed the water mark and shared it with them at no charge. One film was even given to a person that I felt needed the film. That's the point of having an archive. I get it if people don't like the water mark, but at least it's out there and not in some collection never to be seen again.
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