VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

1959

 

To new to be adding water out of a can.

 

Now they probably got a break on their insurance rates..

 

Rex White

 

That's Bill Block's chopped 57 Plymouth.

Mick

 

No, he flipped George walther's car in 1964. This looks like the April 63 race he finished 5th.

 

Is that the same Bill Block (?) that went on to have several outstanding show quality rods?

 

This was Jerry Miller’s Super out of Albuquerque just after getting painted in

 

Lee Smith, Wichita

 

Shorty Burkholder,

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/chopped-1957-plymouth-milwaukee-wi-1957.947196/

 

Thanks for that great picture of Standard Auto Supply's 57. That car was quite legendary around where I grew up. Here's a picture of it at my cousin's drag strip in Windsor Ontario.

 

Starting young look at the name on the side of the wagon.

 

The Bandit was heading that way