Folks Of Interest The Glory that is the Hemi, picture thread

"I just sat on my nuts again!"

 

The original clip from the film back in 1960. Captured at the Bakersfield Smokers March Meet #2


Hello,

We followed the Chrisman Brothers race cars since we were first introduced to them at Lion’s Dragstrip during our teenage drag racing adventures. We missed the overall win by Art Chrisman and “The Hustler” in 1959 at the same Bakersfield March Meet #1, so this time, we were not going miss this huge event.

Around 9:00 a.m. in March 1960, the pits at Bakersfield Smokers #2.

We saw a bunch of top So Cal drag racers at their wide open spaces, in the pits and fenced off drag strip. But, as the day wore on, I captured one of the new FED race cars from the Frank Cannon/Art Chrisman Camp.


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Now, where did that guy in the white overalls come from? That Cannon/Chrisman team always wore white pants and shirt for working on the cars and to drive the FED. But, going over and over the film, that position is not on the Bakersfield drags film. Yikes!


In looking at the photo in question, the guy in the white pants and shirt is from another race car. It took me watching several Bakersfield race day films that were in my digital files. The Frank Cannon left front wheel was a give away item.

It was a mysterious double exposure overlay that came from out of the blue… I have gone over and over each digital file, and cannot find that Chrisman/Cannon image with the white pants crew. It is just not part of that film. YRMV

But, I did find it on another, almost exact position on the staging lanes from a fuel altered capture. The Juggers Race Team from Bakersfield, happen to be in another time during the afternoon, yet the background spectators seems to be the exact same spot.


The Question” remains, “how did the white pants crew get in the film of the Chrisman/Cannon FED film?” In the original 16mm film reel, they are not in succession at the same place of the recorded films.