Stiffspeed never disappoints, there is always cool cars to see, mostly race cars

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/?multi_permalinks=1311017275711552&notif_id=1513279467951820&notif_t=group_highlights

Ansen Speed Shop

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1300042900142323/

This must have been one fun place to hang around

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1152340628245885/

Ross left the rat race, and opened a speed shop, named it for his grand dad. Damn, I respect that.

see the video, 6 minutes long, on Hot Rod's website, but beware. The effing volume is instantly MAXXED OUT for the opening commercial for Optima batteries... and then, of course, it's half that loud for the video when you;ll probably need to turn it back up. I hate that overloud commercial bullshit. Radio, tv, and now the damn internet? There ain't no way to escape the assholes that program.

The video is in some offbrand video player that no one else uses, and has no embed or share ability, so - in order to get traffic to their site, they aren't making it available anywhere else, so you have to go there to view it, but this is a cool story

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/car-craft-undiscovered-builder-ross-nichols

through out the video, the guitar and louder and twangy, so you might want to adjust the volume constantly

cool business sign

http://www.racingfromthepast.com/images/nancesign.jpg


Born in Boone Oklahoma on May 12, 1923, LaVern Nance was the oldest of eight children. The slow talking, ambitious young man went to work at age 15 when his father died. He drifted around the Southwest working as a laborer, spending 14 hours a day in the hot fields picking cotton by hand.

Shortly after marriage, Nance put down his cotton picking bag and hitch hiked to Wichita, Kansas. The Aviation Capital of the World, thinking anything would be better than the back breaking days in the searing Oklahoma cotton fields.

 The Second World War was on and he managed to sign on with Beech Aircraft building aircraft parts for the defense effort. Soon he was appointed foreman over forty women riveters. His firm yet easy going manner eventually landed him a lucrative plant superintendent job over seeing 800 workers.

 Financially successful, yet restless for some new challenge, Nance quit his job and launched his own small business (Nance Machine and Paint Company) with partner Marvell in 1950, fabricating glider seats and painting parts.

http://www.racingfromthepast.com/lavernnancestory.html
http://www.racingfromthepast.com/lavernnancehomeindex16.html

some of the more interesting and race focused ads the high schoolers sold

All from http://annualmobiles.blogspot.com/

A rare advertisment for a speedshop named Goodies. They got Linda, and I'm not sure, is that Kalitta?

I don't recognize most racers by what they look like.

Found on http://annualmobiles.blogspot.com/

New York and New Jersey speed shops in 1971 (thanks to J!)

Bad Larry has a speedshop, and knows how to throw a christmas party!

full gallery at http://ponyfotos.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmasparty-bei-bad-larrys-speedshop.html

Walden Speedshop's Fenderless hot rod

Karl and Veda Orr, keepers of the hot rod faith and spreading the word with their hot rod publication while the guys were fighting in WW2

Veda set the Full Fendered Roadster record at 104.40 mph and later upped that to 114.24 in 1937. She ran 131-plus mph at the wheel of the Taylor-Blair modified and became the first woman to race in the SCTA.

Veda published the SCTA News, and later started her own newsletter as a means of communicating with other racers; however, it wasn't long after its inception that WWII began and many of the racers found themselves in the military and on their way overseas. To keep spirits up, Veda distributed her publication to more than 750 service men all around the world for free and personally corresponded with hundreds as well.

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/0802sr_veda_orrs_1932_ford_roadster/index.html

Karl was a fortunate guy to land a wife this good looking, a magazine phenomenon, and a land speed racer.

I recommend you find a speed shop, one with a dyno...

And an owner who digs Chevys, Fords, and Mopars (yeah, I still need to catch a shot of him in a Mopar... it'll happen)

Where the guys are happy

The prices are on the wall

The floor is full of Hi-Po parts

And you'll find old cool stuff

And new cool stuff

Proof of award winning recognition,

and racing

Where the service signs are hanging around ( I misplaced the Chevy sign photo)

And they specialize in something

..... but work on everything

Big blocks of all varieties are found... 427 Chevs, 528 Hemis

and they work on race cars, muscle cars, and off roaders too

Some new foriegn cars, and old American's

And new econo-boxes to old Bufords

Where safety goes in, before the parts break out... the driveshaft in the above photo, bottom left area... twisted itself in half... between the TWO driveshaft loops. And it made all the difference when that driveshaft let go and tried to relocate to the drivers area.

These photos are here cause I just dig the full drag race car

(Back to my story... ) and where things are coming together

like this 68 charger that is getting a viper heart transplant

http://www.jbaracing.com/