Vintage shots from days gone by!

Had a '61 Ventura just like this one. Great ride. Dicey "slim-jim"automatic transmission.

 

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Rootie, also notice that there is no Meyer-Drake/Offenhauser Serial Number plate on the cam boxes. That's because there was nothing standard about Moore's front drive engines and they weren't factory built or assigned numbers. He had his own blocks made to his specifications by Meyer Drake. Goosen did the drawings. He personally built his own special Offys and the story goes that no one else ever took one apart. The engines in Moore's Blue Crown front drives were not standard 270s.

 

Just pulled these pages from a old Popular Mechanics Magazine July , 1935 ...Cool stuff...

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I was curious about the two gnomes on the dash too.

 

Early "Tagger"

 

Good one too!!

 

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Thanks for posting the ad. Now, maybe the "experts" might learn something. Only if they are capable of learning.

 

Don't eat the yellow snow!




Leaking oil? No, sweating horsepower

 

Rootie, nice picture of Jerry Unser at Trenton in the leightenberger sled.

 

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I could watch it in a loop. For hours ...

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I wonder that you see many new cars. Only a few cars older than 15 years. Or am I wrong?

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Something didn't go well with this lift. Owner's going to be really pissed.

 

A caption would good for this one.

 

There are some cool, old roadsters in that 1940s L.A. film.