History Racecar Haulers of the Rich and Famous

Now they're touring the country in support of the Snake and ****oose movie.

 

Here is another one of Gus Schumacher pulling two of his race cars.

 

Hell, I remember some of the guys who raced at 605 Speedway drove their racecars to the track!

 

In the early '60's a regional meet drew a big entry and crowd to Orange. On the entry road while waiting to get in lake pipes and headers got uncorked and "sonic drags" started.

After the Aug '59 meet I saw a rail being flat towed away on the end of a rope, Rt 202 South IIRC, wished I had been able to take a picture. Not a high buck operation for sure but does being that memorable make it famous?

Ed

 

How about the big rear-window stickers Champion Spark Plug used to p*** out for flat towing -- "Race Car in Tow"? I thought those were the coolest. It meant there goes a real race car!

 

Pretty awesome photo. Can you tell more about it?

 

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I used to get a kick out of some of
the guys flat-towing to and from the
local dragstrip when on the back of
their race car in big letters in white
shoe polish it would say "CAR IN
TOE" I was never quite sure if they
were trying to be funny, or it they
really just couldn't spell and didn't
know the difference between words
'TOE" and "TOW"!!!

 

I remember the Penske hauler. Does it still look like that?


Ago

 

I think now that George Barris sold the original Batmobile for Millions he is now both Rich and Famous

 

Haven't seen it this year, but to my knowledge yes. There's also a matching motor home for RP.

 

If there's a will, there's a way...

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1964...s_Not_Street_Legal_&hash=item3cd4e9ea89#v4-39

 

Now that`s some neat rolling stock.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

That old ramp truck would be so cool to have and use.... all a guy needs is a extra $30K to poor into it.

 

Loading the Mormon Metero III circa 1949.



The Diamond T pickup right behind the race car is from the Wilkinson Salt Lake City dealership.

 

This is a 1930s Bonneville LSR compe***or.

 

Barnfind, thank you for the Bonneville photos. I had never seen them before you posted.

 

cobra

 

Quite a race team over the years.

 

That truck is sitting in the Mercedes Benz museum. It is very beautiful, but its also not the original. The original was s****ped. Oh, and speaking of race cars, one of the W196's set an auction record a couple months ago.


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