Ryan submitted a new blog post: El Mirage in Living Color... 1948. Continue reading the Original Blog Post
The hour long clip is here which I stumbled on back in September, it covers pre war color which absolutely blew my mind when I saw it, along with post war, the first scta drag meets when it was ran with the AMA with Their motorcycle races and then also roadster circle track. It is the best footage I think I’ve ever seen bar none, i honesty thought I would never see anything from this period in this kind of quality, a lot of this footage seem to be shot along side the color stills in the Genat birth of hot rodding book.
I knew I had seen some of this footage somewhere... And yes, right along side Genat's stuff. Really cool. I just love the way it was edited. Not professional at all, but that's part of the charm.
Thanks for the cool film I couldn't help but notice not a fat guy in the bunch no bear bellies what year did Americans start getting fat.
THANK YOU for sharing guys! You mentioned ‘optimism’ Ryan. What strikes me is the way people helped each other. More proof that this generation represented the best of humanity.
The History here in color is amazing. all of our hero's. Stu Hilboun in his "liner" with jewel like machining on his Fuel injection system. Bob Peterson laying on the ground filming with some sort of "movie " camera. The SCTA's wayyy cool 39 Ford Panel truck. Some guys with leather helmets and others with the SCTA "Loaners" I had to watch it more than a few time...thnx 4 posting this
Wow. It's like a surprise present. I quickly skipped through it. No time to watch the whole thing right now. But I'm sure going to. Cast it to the big TV, kick back and enjoy.
I wonder if it was actually shot in color...or was "colorized" after the fact with some digital trickery? Very cool either way.
I could be wrong, but I don't think it was colorized... The color isn't as saturated as most modern means of colorization would manage.... if that makes sense.
Odemoto Films on Youtube is killing it with period Hot Rod/Drag Racing/Dry Lakes/Bonneville footage. I don't know who they are or where they are getting their footage from but I salute you.
I think the thing that stands out to me is that you can see how windy, hot, and filthy the whole thing was. I know I for one always tend to look at still photos and imagine it took place at the most perfect temperature and weather conditions. Part of nostalgia I suppose. Seeing sweaty red foreheads really sets the tone of what was actually happening.
For those who are not aware or familiar with the Cad V-16...... Briefly, the production started in 1930, with the overhead valve version, and continued 'till 1937. The second generation were flatheads. This is due to the engine height, as the '40's were supposed to be much in profile.... We all know what happened then. The picture is of a 1930 Series 90 Personal Sedan that my wife owned back in the late 80's.... It was about 90% original, including all upholstery and most of the paint.. The only thing it needed was a water pump rebuild. Egge Machine rebuilt both for less than a hundred bucks. It was by far the smoothest running critter I have ever driven.
Yes, I'd say that film was almost certainly originally filmed with colour film and it hasn't been colourised.
Pre-McDonalds, pre-Cheetos, pre-processed foods...those guys would be considered malnourished by today's standards LOL.
Very cool piece of history indeed! My favorite section is from time mark 4:36 to 5:35, the very cool guy wearing the vintage big bill fishing cap, sitting on the high rise stand, boots hanging from the stand and the vintage desert water bag hanging there as well! Too hot hot to wear the leather boots! Too cool indeed. Thanks from Dennis.
At 4:42 - 4:47 is that a head poking up in the front of the car? Is he siting at the front axle? Crazy! Dan
So Bozzy Willis is unknown now??? He happened to be a key figure in that era serving at VP of SCTA, so didn't happen to be there he was a****st it going back to the formation of SCTA. Ever see Alex Xydias movie "The Hot Rod Story"? That was Boswell's footage of the postwar lakes. Unfortunately Boz lost all his original footage in a 1950s wildfire which as I understand was 16mm going back to mid 30s. beside this that footage is amazing!
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