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The Old Days
From late 1960s Hot Rod Yearbooks.
Jacked '67 Elco. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0001HRM.jpg Jacked Nova on the prowl. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0002HRM.jpg Nice Nova with straight axle and five-spokes! http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0003HRM.jpg Willys gasser with black CA license plates. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0004HRM.jpg Morris Minor with straight axle! Didn't say what the engine was. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0005HRM.jpg Another Brit, this one a Hillman, done the same way! http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0006HRM.jpg Altered wheelbase '65 Goat. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0007HRM.jpg '62 Impala done like the Goat. Wheelies anyone? http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0008HRM.jpg Detail shot of straight-axled Nova. Budnate, taking notes??? http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0009HRM.jpg Sold new at the Compton Chevy dealership (Los Angeles). http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0010HRM.jpg Grumpy's '67 L78. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0011HRM.jpg Hemi '68 Barracuda with skinny Cragars all around. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0012HRM.jpg Recently departed Mr. Four Speed working his craft. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0013HRM.jpg Staging lanes were full of cool iron back in those days! http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0014HRM.jpg Mr. Jenkins and his '68 Camaro between rounds. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0015HRM.jpg Heading down track off-throttle. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0016HRM.jpg Indy Pace/Festival Camaro heading out onto the track. Is that a "Viva Montesa" t-shirt at the back of the Indy car? http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0017HRM.jpg Tom McEwen at speed with the slicks trying to come off of rims! http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0018HRM.jpg Wild Willie had to push it through the lights to win this event. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0019HRM.jpg Jacked '64 Goat street machine ready to go hunting. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0020HRM.jpg Steve McQueen flogging a dune buggy. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0021HRM.jpg And then having to clean the sand out of the V-dub engine. Nice pants. (He looked cool in anything.) http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/BE427TJ/0022.jpg 427 street Cobra at Bonneville. Sunburst wheels. No oil cooler scoop or sidepipes. Scoop added to hood. Non-Shelby roll bar. It probably wanted to do 360s rather than go straight down the black line. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...TJ/0023HRM.jpg |
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Cool Bill! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif
How was the drive this afternoon? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif |
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Wow!!!!......Look at the ElCamino in the first pic........Can we say "Steering Geometry".......It's amazing what Fads did to common sense......But , As I remember.......the "Look" was everything....
Great Pic's...Thanks for Posting https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif Ken |
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How was the drive this afternoon? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif [/ QUOTE ] No burnouts, just 50+ miles of freeway running to blow out the junk and cobwebs. Took this pic when I got back. Running much better and no knocking. I'm going to order some Max Lead 2000 and run that in the gas until the '96 comes out for rebuild. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...7TJ/Camaro.jpg |
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Good deal on the drive https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif
I LOVE the altered wheelbase cars! Speaking of AWB...anyone know of a good used 6-71 blower for sale? Mark, who owns the AWB Orange Biscayne that I (often)post pictures of...wants to get a blower for his car... |
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Great shots, a lot of those street cars had California plates. On that Cobra at the Salt Flats....Where are the jack stands?
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Thanks for the photos! I love the straight axle look and vibe. They just scream HOT ROD! I've NEVER been a fan of the current Pro Touring/G-machine fad and those old photos are as far away from that as can be. Call me a dinosour, but I've always preferred the fast, low tech approach of the sixties race and muscle cars.
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Love that Mongoose picture...is that Charlie's '67 Pace car?
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Bill:
Not sure where that pic of the staging lanes was taken, but that 51 Stude looks suspiciously like Ted Harbit's 51 that I raced against at Milan Dragway in 1967. he still rows the gears in the Plain Brown wrapper and the red Tomato 63 Lark's at Pure Stock. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif Here's why we needed straight axles under these "concoctions". This is my 61 Valiant with a 383 driver train that ran B/MP in the 60's. It had stock suspensin with the torsion bars wound all the way up to level off the car with the rear end. I put it on the street (even had snow tires on it) and it had a nasty habit of changing lanes whever it pleased. next step was a solid axle, but sold it when I got married. As Al Bundy said, "End of Life". http://i6.tinypic.com/1zlssvc.jpg |
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