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

Interesting piece of pinstriping art between the drivers side wheel, and the driver

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=60238

El Mirage photo posted by Frans Vanwingh to pintrest

 

https://www.pinterest.com/francescowing/pins/

Loving the louvers on this

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

 

the good old days

https://www.instagram.com/shockleykustoms/p/C2peL_MuxRi/?img_index=2

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-32#post-13281879

hot rods and classic trailers on El Mirage

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226814317078175&set=pcb.10226814321038274

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

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=56257

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

 

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!

 

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.

 http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php?topic=5202.1845

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

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 Mirage... and he had time on the job to work on it!

I see in the notes he was running on alcohol, with 10% nitro

 From a 1951 copy of Cycle via oldminibikes.com

I wish I had a time machine

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-1439

I do happen to have a operators manual for a time machine, and highly recommend you get one as it's simply marvelous, you will NEVER find one better. I treasure mine. 

the Cudworth-Hooper Owner’s Manual: Operation and Maintenance  https://curioandco.com/products/gadabout-tm-1050-time-machine  this user’s manual, printed in 1953, is 96 pages of intricate diagrams and beautiful illustrations – a real gem of mid-century design.

A really cool gift for when you want to stun someone with a present unlike anything they've ever gotten

Barney Navarro, legend, genius, hot rodder

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

cool art on the nose of this car

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

cool bellytanker

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 Mirage or Bonneville, but I'm pretty sure it's El Mirage

El Mirage, I'm pretty sure

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

Bob Rounthwaite's coupe, circa 1948

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

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

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 50,000 dollars. Probably closer to 80, simply because the very rich collectors are always snapping them up for private collections for a while before they flip them to sell at an even higher price. 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-333#post-13383022

a day at the races beats any day at the office

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

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.

Because the sprint car was classified as a streamliner, it competed directly with the V8 belly-tank "lakesters" which were far more powerful and streamlined. Wanting to gain points for the Throttlers, McAfee switched to a different engine class using a highly modified Studebaker "Champion" straight six motor. The combination was effective and earned him the high points award in 1952.

 Here is his number "1" belt buckle

http://www.jackmcafee.com/9.html

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

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