History drag races: early Santa Ana photos

Here's some early (1957?) Santa Ana photos from Life Magazine archive

 

wow so many great pictures!

Thank you for posting.

 

You can thank Ralph Crane, the man shown below for the photos.

Sorry if thre's multiples of the same photo. Hard to remember with so many.

 

Thank you too LowKat!

 

Outstanding!!

 

Thanks for sharing these historic photos with us.
They were better that what the Easter Bunny brought me yesterday!!!

 

Wow - what a super selection. Threads like this are what make the H.A.M.B. special. Thanks a bunch for sharing.

 

Great stuff !!!!!!!!
Even some shots of Ivo and his 1st "T"
Also say 1 shot with my dad in it.
I was 12 yrs old then and used to help pops out every weekend with his car.
Sure bring back sum good memories.

 

WOW, these are the guys that own it man! The rest of us are a bunch of kids playing dress-up. No offense intended towards anyone, and I don't question the passion or loyalty of any H.A.M.B. member. These are the guys we model ourselves after, they are the real deal. They invented it, we celebrate it. Thank you sharing these photographs.

 

What a great collection! THANKS for sharing
And if you notice, there are no rusty piles of bubblegum welds, No spider webs, I didn't see anyone with 40 lbs of grease in their hair and even the cuffs were kept to a minimum. In fact most of those guys were quite dapper!

 

Thanks for the photos. I was also there at the time. It was fun. I agree with Don

 

Great stuff, most Santa Ana pictures are from years earlier. The helicopter shots are nice to see too.

 

where did they hide all the fat people?

 

LowKat ... Very, very cool! ... I don't remember seeing all those when Google released the LIFE Photo Archive (they must have added some since I was last on the site) ... anyway, thanks very much for taking the time post all these pics!

Right click, save ... right click, save ...

 

Life keeps adding photos.
They originally had 2 million posted.
They have 8 million more to add.

 

I scanned over 1000 Paso Robles negatives to digital from the 1997 - 2004 shows. it took a month working on it just about every day. I'd like to see whatever they are using to do this. I can't imagine they are doing it the same way I did.

 

front and center

 

Awesome stuff!! Thanks for digging them up!

 

Stunning photos

Wish that was yesterday

 

Just last week Brian Bauer was showing me old photos he just recived of his A roadster(now orange & weekly driver in monrovia) racing & setting records at santa ana.

Its on a trailer & has 204 on the door in these photos. He still has the fenders, roll bar, etc.

Neeat stuff

 

Killer thread.

As they say right click ... save, right click....

 

You mean you didn't outsource that task to some 8 year old girls in Bangladesh?

All joking aside, I'm sure Google has several (high $$$) commercial scanners that are capable of scanning hundreds of photos per minute ... adding the meta data (photo description, etc.) to each image would be the time consuming & labor intensive part of the process.

 

Wow! Thanks LowKat, excellent pic's!