History CW's Bonneville Pics the WAYNE KOEPPE Collection

thanks for sharing.these pics are inspiring.

 

Ex So Cal Coupe: in the late 50's Richard Stricker & Jerry Esiert ran the coupe with a front mount blowner on a Cad engine, Jerry owned Specialty Automotive in Montebello or Whittier and Rich owned Stricker Engineering in Maywood Ca. When I was 16 I worked for Rich in the machine shop doing clean up work and pickup & deliveries. The coupe was stored in the back room of the shop, after my clean up duties I'd go to the back room and uncover the coupe and get in and make like I was a big racer at B-ville/ ElMo. I LOVED that race car! I asked Rich if he would sell it to me, he told me NO, he said if something happened to you while racing I couldn't live with himself, he know my Mom & Dad and my brother who also worked for Rich as a machinist. The coupe was later sold to Jim Travis for somewhere around $1800. The blue push truck behind the coupe was Rich's daily driver, it had a blown Cad engine in it and it HAULED ASS!.

 

some pictures from the R&C archives of these same cars:

Fred Lobello's "Ladybug," from a Corsair belly tank.


The '34 sedan with the track nose/bln Chrysler, owned by Gary Ewens and Bill Ramay, met its end drag racing at Fontana, also in HRM:


Sanchez Stude



Moonbeam



Perry Boys, sponsored by Quincy Automotive, Dodge hemi, these guys knew how to pour 100% to get the record:

 

Those are so awesome!!

 

Very cool pictures! Thank you.

Mac

 

Impressive pics,lot to study here!!!Thanks a LOT for showing them!

 

Incredible pics! Thank you for sharing.
Ferrari 375MM #0412AM with Horace Jeffrey at B'ville 1960.
Another one with William Holden and the car restored today.

http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All.Ferraris/Detail/0412AM.375MM.htm

 

Best wishes to Wayne from Grant. Long time no see but I do see junior Newton. Great pics Wayne and thanks for sharing.