Showing posts with label El Mirage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label El Mirage. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Ryan at the Jalopy Journal posted some cool late 40s El Mirage photos! (thank you Marc!)

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Interesting piece of pinstriping art between the drivers side wheel, and the driver https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=60238
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Saturday, January 11, 2025

El Mirage photo posted by Frans Vanwingh to pintrest

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  https://www.pinterest.com/francescowing/pins/
Monday, March 04, 2024

Loving the louvers on this

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-37#post-13333075  
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

the good old days

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https://www.instagram.com/shockleykustoms/p/C2peL_MuxRi/?img_index=2 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-nee...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

hot rods and classic trailers on El Mirage

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226814317078175&set=pcb.10226814321038274
Monday, August 28, 2023

color home video of El Mirage in Oct 1948, thank you Marc!

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=56257
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Friday, November 25, 2022

great paint design and color choice, Karl Orr at El Mirage 1947

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Monday, October 17, 2022

skip to 7:30, avoid the corny-preachy gradeschool refrom baloney about street racing in 1952, and get right to the coverage of El Mirage of 1952... thank you Marc!

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Friday, June 03, 2022

Jim Amrhein's Team Fercockta roadster, It's still in the record book, (as of 2012) holding the D/Blown Fuel Roadster record at El Mirage, set in 1975, at a respectable 223.

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  http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php?topic=5202.1845
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Thursday, June 02, 2022

what a combo: a scooter, a Rex Burnett cut away drawing, an aerodynamic land speed racer going for a record. Thank you Steve!

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the head of the experimental department of Powell scooters had a lot of time to think about what he needed to do to set a record at El Mirag...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

I wish I had a time machine

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  https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-1439 I do happen to have a operators manua...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Barney Navarro, legend, genius, hot rodder

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  https://carsradars.com/car-reviews/hot-rodding-pioneer-barney-navarro-and-his-ground-breaking-model-t-race-car-then-and-now/
Saturday, June 05, 2021

cool art on the nose of this car

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-848#post-13827600
Sunday, May 30, 2021

cool bellytanker

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-797#post-13805901 not sure if this is El Mir...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

El Mirage, I'm pretty sure

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-680#post-13722908
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Bob Rounthwaite's coupe, circa 1948

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-coupes-and-sedans-of-land-speed-racing.868864/page-12
Saturday, April 03, 2021

So long ago that Hot Rod doesn't even cover El Mirage racing anymore, and no one can afford that roadster on a high school diploma job

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I figure if that exact car were for sale, today, in exactly the condition it was in the day it was photographed here, it would be over 50,00...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

a day at the races beats any day at the office

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-238
Monday, December 21, 2020

After serving four years in the South Pacific during WWII, Jack McAfee returned to the dry lakes in 1947 driving a sprint car he purchased from 12 time Indy 500 participant Babe Stapp, and clocked 122.95 on El Mirage.

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Because the sprint car was classified as a streamliner, it competed directly with the V8 belly-tank "lakesters" which were far mor...
Saturday, December 05, 2020

Von Dutch flame job on Bob Arner's Streamliner at El Mirage

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https://kustomrama.com/wiki/File:Bob-arner-streamliner34.jpg