Art & Inspiration the lakes roadster picture thread

A few photographs of Roadsters @ the 1971 23rd Annual Bonneville National Speed Trials:

The Sadd, Teague & Bentley (San Gabriel, CA) A-motored (400ci Blown Chrysler HEMI) Fuel Roadster (A/FR)
... Al bumped the A/FR record (he had set in '70) up from a two-way average of 202.280 to 228.267 mph!


The Dees & Joehnck (Inglewood, CA) B-motored (428ci Chevy) Fuel Roadster (B/FR)
... bumped the B/FR record (set by the Peek Bros in '70) up to a two-way average of 230.406 mph!


The Hays, Niver & Emmons (Scottsdale, AZ) C-motored (360ci Chrysler HEMI) Modified Roadster (C/MR) ... with new paint scheme

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D/BGR set a record in '08 at 229.368

 

Yeah. I hear no springs and no castor. Made it go streight. True?

 

This was my first year at Bonneville, though I have kept up on the history over the years with a lot of reading / magazines / books etc. We stayed at the Econolodge and luckily this is where the SCTA folks were staying. I was poolside having a few beers and struck up a conversation with Curt Giovanine. He's so humble I hadn't a clue who he was. Over a few hours he gave me a great history lesson, introducing me to or telling me who everyone was. Naturally I recognized a lot of the names and the stories and BS were really flyin'. Then he started telling me about his Dad, Bob and the Giovanine/Spurgin Chevy. This is one of my all time favorite cars, Really that was your Dad?? Anyway he had some great stories on the original cars history as well as the recreation below (another favorite). What a cool evening...I'll never forget it.

 

Thats right-also took the W.B. out to 131'' and it all came together,
down and back

 

Reed's Record holding V4F/STR 111.477




Keven

 

Our V4F/GMR 112.00 from Bonneville '08

Can't wait 'till next year...







Keven

 

kevin, calm down a little, the reason they all got deleated was i closed my photobucket account because some of my images were being used with out my permission by a t shirt company. i've slowly been adding pictures to a new account and will try and have them back in this thread by the end of the week.

 

ha our roadster is already on here by accident:



it's the red one with the extra long nose. i know, i know... i ***** at my dad all the time about how horrible the car looks but "form fits function". it's okay 'cause once it's in my hands it's going back to how it should/used to be.

 

kevin got most off the old ones back up for you and here's a few more to tie you over until i finnish digging up the other ones.

earl evans


george castera


quincy automotive



rudy+weinstein


tom cobbs


ted miller


woody Lee


carillo-betz

 

here's some more oldies

 

I , like alot of you love the old pictures and history of lakes and Bonneville racing.
The cars are amazing. That "look" we strive for goes back a long ways. The variety of cars and imagination that goes into those machines is mind boggleing.
a gr*** roots thing like drag racing used to be. I want to go to Speed week and Bonneville too.

 

Ha so is mine. Then and now.

 

I'm guessing that's your old Cessna in the back ground? Cool plane.
Great picture

 

In person this roadster is BEAUTIFUL.

 

Awesome! More! More! More!

 

Not my Cessna. Another UA employe who flew up to see what was going on. He later flew it into the ground. Don't know if it was ever rebuilt. No one hurt badly.

 

sorting through more of my pictures as i fill a new photobucket account,

thacker-shine-kiwi steve built


george poteet





so cal machine-jack and warren harvey





mike cook



tardell-mckenzie








here's a bunch more that i'll have to ad the names to later as i can't think of them off the top of my head















i know this is a hambers but the names escaping me at the moment

 

more









kowalski







bmr

 

more

 

Great photos, I don't think I'm going to be able to wait until August after all those shots thanks for the post..

 

Heres another of Simard's roadster. I love the umbrella, man that guys got cl***.

 

Awesome pics Justin. I can't wait 'til May.

 

anyone got more?

 

These are my friend (he's on the HAMB but I don't not sure what he goes by on here) and mine. They were built in our own shops and our driven.