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. . Damn -- I lost the right side of this photo! It's of the San Berdoo Roadsters club that met at the Hudson dealer's garage on Base Line.

 

Way cool. Build it! Good on youuuuuuu!
Andy

 

Hello,

I could not help but feel I saw this Modified Sports Car somewhere back in time. So, in my search, I found this film I took in 1960 of a Modified Sports Car at Lion’s Dragstrip. It was one of the only Modified Sports Cars with a 671 supercharged motor at the time. At first, back in the VHS tape days, I thought it was my friends who built the Modified Sports Car. I had not seen them since 1960. So, comparing it to many photos, I found out it was not the same Modified Sports Car as the one I saw being built in the Westside of Long Beach. (frame and complete ch***is/motor only)

When they finally put the body on the finished ch***is, it took on a whole new look. I never saw the body when I visited their garage workspace. So, it was not the same Modified Sports Car from the film that I took. YRMV

Jnaki

But going over the sports car photo racing the rear engine roadster, that looks to be the same modified sports car from back in 1960, with a new paint job. It seems that everything else looks to be the same. Any idea who owned the sports car or information about the motor or driver?

 

Congrats! I like forward to seeing it at the GNRS.

 

I was talking to my buddy today about your find. He told me about about Bob White building it and Merrells sponsoring it. He said he got a chance to drive it at the Orange Show Parking lot. He said he he only hit 140 and it was running really bad that day. He has a pic somewhere of it at Riverside Raceway he'll try to dig up for me. My buddy told me the frame was s****ped and the injected 354 Hemi went into another car. My buddy bought a Model A Banger from Jerry Merrell and is storing 2 Model T's for Jerry and the T Bucket in this pic has the front axle from your car from what I was told. He's going to ask Jerry if he can give me his phone number and forward it to you unless you already have it.He told me Bob White is still around but he doesn't have his number .

 

Here's the pic from Riverside I mentioned in the above post.

 

Scotty's Muffler Shop on Court and G Streets . . .

 

For the kids........
Scotty's Muffler in San Bernardino,
founded by hot rod legend Charles "Scotty" Scott in 1946, was a pivotal part of California's early hot rod and drag racing scene, known for custom exhausts on race cars and its iconic Ardun-powered belly tank, evolving from a racing legacy into a respected auto service shop that still offers cl***ic custom exhaust work today under new ownership

 

My buddy told me the original 354 Hemi went to someone who drove an Austin G***er with a hump back who went by Captain Crunch?

 

The original chapter of the Hell's Angels was in Fontana, CA just down the road from Berdoo. From what I understand the Berdoo chapter was formed shortly thereafter.

 

Wow thank you so much!! I look forward to meeting the man behind the build and hopefully meet you!

 

Did some investigating and we found
Bob White!!! And he’s 90 years young!!! This is the smartest man I’ve ever met. From racing gokarts to building and piloting many top fuel dragsters Bob was definitely busy. When drag racing started to get dangerous he ran the show circuit with the T and he built a respectable pickup. When the car scene fizzled out he studied astronomy and built sophisticated telescopes. His prized possession is a Spectrohelioscope a telescope designed to take pictures of the sun. This my is the most interesting man in the world.

 

Hello,

We used to see them a lot on the freeways if we went to that area of So Cal. But, one day, I was driving our El Camino and I told my wife that a bunch of motorcycles were coming up on her side of the freeway headed to San Francisco . We had started in So Cal and then went up highway 101 from the Long Beach area. It was one of our Northern California road trips. The cool highway ran next to the coastal city locations to get to northern California.

Eventually, we got connected to Highway 17 out of Santa Cruz and ended up headed to San Jose. When I mentioned that the motorcycles were headed up in the next lane, my wife got the 35mm camera ready. She did not show the camera up in the “eye” view zone, but put it against the window on the door sill. The focus was set at infinity and all she had to do was push the ****on. But, at the last minute, she did not take a side window photo, but waited until they were up ahead in the next lane.

As they came up next to us, one guy came up close and waved to her as he zipped by. Then she took the shot when they were in front of us. We both laughed and had a memory of our road trips to keep.

Jnaki

The Oakland Chapter was famous in their own right, but later on, they got a worse reputation at Altamont. YRMV

 

Your.re welcome! Hope to meet you too!

 

.....a bunch of motorcycles were coming up on her side of the freeway headed to San Francisco . .
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Just on the way for their security guard jobs.......
While the Hells Angels are famously linked to the chaotic Altamont Free Concert (1969) where they provided security and violence erupted, their direct involvement at the Monterey Pop Festival (1967) wasn't a central theme like Altamont; they were present at many Summer of Love events, mingling in the scene, but Monterey was more about the music explosion (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin), with the Angels' darker presence becoming iconic later at Altamont, highlighting the end of the peaceful hippie dream

 

You are probably right, but when I lived in Fontana in 1961 the word was it was Rialto.

 

IIRC they supposedly came out of a club called POBOB - Pissed Off *******s of Bloomington.

 

Interesting

Interesting. I also lived in Escondido in 1960. Graduated junior high school (8th grade) summer of
1961 Grant junior high. Moved to Fontana right after graduation and lived right accross Foothill Blvd.
100 yards from the starting line at Fontana drag strip. For a 13 year old kid who loved hot rods and
drag racing, it was like I landed in heaven.

 

I believe that it was pronounced Fontucky at that time.............