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This is both beautiful and incredibly authentic. I saw this car in action in the late 60s, with Bill Vukovich II at the wheel, at Bakersfield...
For what it's worth, I met George Farmer in a Denny's where I had seen his trailered sprinter in the parking lot and sought out the driver and...
I was there for that one -- Al Unser was running away with it, and then broke something in his suspension (RR torsion bar hanger?), as you can see...
About 1953, give or take. Bakersfield (Calif.) Speedway.
About 1953 give or take, Bakersfield Speedway.
A few shots of the family stable from my earliest childhood days in California. First, the car Mom learned to drive in, a '40 Ford Tudor...
True enough about the UK --- but remember that the American frontier was just being settled when you Limeys were building follies.
[IMG] If you want to see that Drug Store today, open Google Maps, go to Dorrance, KS, find the corner of Railroad St. and Main St., then...
The Blackboard in Bakersfield -- undisputedly the baddest bar in 1960s California.
Just north of Cayucos, CA. Scuba dived north of there as a kid, hitchiked past it as a hippie, and it's still there today.
This gas station saved my bacon when I ended up on top of nearby Breckenridge Mountain with an empty gas tank on my Kawasaki H1 Mach III (should...
Bakersfield, CA, some time after the 1952 earthquake.
THe Fox Theater shown is in Bakersfield, not LA. It's still there.
Check this EBay listing for a 1930s Ford headlight lens:...
It's just a hunch, but Franklins consistently had HUGE headlights, even on their "smaller" models. I would check around vintage 1929. That pattern...
That theater is the Fox in Bakersfield. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0726-CA-Bakersfield-FoxTheater.jpg
133 mph in a Pantera, on a rural road outside of Bakersfield. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb!
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