Vintage shots from days gone by!

Bill Dills in the Yacovone KK , He was killed in this car in 1949

 

Ex Sox & Martin 66

 

More leaf spring 66 MoPars, for Squirrel if he's looking!

 

Bud Tinglestad in the Enterprise #10 sprint car.

 

I miss the days when stock cars looked like real cars.......
Thank you SWI66 for the great stock car photos!

 

Prudehomme



Prudehomme Barney Ford




again



Prudehomme



San Diego Raceway

 

Allan Knusten 40 Ford




Riddler



Ron's Drive In

 

Waldport, OR

The stump is still there on the beach, just a lot shorter.

 

Pendleton, OR

 

Changing the tires on the Hubmobile for the trip up to Frog Camp, during the 1916 "Jaunt of the Four."

Crossing the lava fields with Middle and North Sister in the background. Central Oregon

Road side camp along the Deschutes River, near Warm Springs, OR

Arriving into Government Camp, OR - Their drive from Madras to Portland, via Warm Springs and Government Camp, took them three days.

John Lee, Rodney Glisan, Charles Sholes, and Martin Gorman (left to right)

On a chilly morning in August of 1916 four men stood looking at the open hood of their car twenty miles south of Bend. The Hupmobile, a touring car built between 1909 and 1939, refused to turn over. Two days earlier they cracked the crankcase fording a river, and they feared the worst. As the morning warmed, so did the car and in short order, it started, and the group was on the road again. The four men were Charles Sholes, Martin Gorman, Rodney Glisan, and John Lee. Sholes was a founding member of the Mazamas and the only individual to serve four terms as Mazama President. Gorman was a renowned botanist. Glisan a world traveling lawyer. And Lee an authority on natural sciences and a pioneer of trail building around Mount Hood. All four men were ex Mazama Presidents.

 

Rootie...Who is the driver in the midget flip..any more info of the Maxson Spl ????

 

Great photos of the modifieds of the 50-60's. Dirt and pavement "stockers" weren't always what NASCAR fed the public and its still that way today at local circle tacks all around this great country today. As you travel all over the mid-west during the summer on the roads of America I can guarentee on a Saturday afternoon guys are still towing to their local tracks on open trailers. We do and we are in So Cal....

 

YIKES !! I hope that wasn't a fatal .

 

That's Earl Motter crashing his midget at Fresno mid 50s with Johnny Boyd going by on the inside. Though he did some sheet time he survived intact and continued racing I believe.

The Maxson champ car was the former Vita Fresh Meskowski car that Unser, Ruby, Rutherford and many others drove from 62 to the late 60s when Darwin Maxson bought it and put George Benson in it for a few races. Don't know what happened to it after that.

 

"Yeah, looks like a lot of late nights this week. Wife's going to be mad!"

 

Even though I am getting to not like the cold any more but if its going to get cold I want to see snow like in this picture up just past christmas then it can start getting warm again.

 

My Uncle Al told me he sold Auburns for a while, maybe this was his "loaner"!

 

View attachment 3739873 View attachment 3739873 A Gangster and his Molls! Actually My Grandpa, Grandma and my Aunt Bess along with The Roadmaster (the only car my Grandpa would own).

 

The driver is me (about 5) in Dad's '54 Buick Special. Dad bought it new, but about 2yrs. later some paint below the side trim started falling off. Had that fixed and traded it in on a new '57 Belair Sport Coupe white over black. That's one I like to have now!!