the actual car driven by Jim Clark - legendary double-Formula 1 World Champion and 1965 Indianapolis 500 winner - in the 1967 Rex Mays '300' road race at Riverside, California. The Vollstedt-Ford chassis serial '67B' is up for sale

The Ex-Jim Clark, Rex Mays '300' at Riverside, Ex-Cale Yarborough, Gordon Johncock, Tom Sneva, George Follmer, John Cannon...and even Chris Amon 1967 Vollstedt-Ford 67 USAC 'Indianapolis' Racing Single-Seater

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/31959/lot/24/1967-vollstedt-ford-67-usac-indianapolis-racing-single-seater-chassis-no-67b

1970 Chevron B16

https://straightspeedphoto.blogspot.com/2026/04/1970-chevron-b16.html

a new race car with a Fairlane body draped over it.

https://delessencedansmesveines.com/2023/04/ford-fairlane-monstre-800ch/

1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Streamliner W196R

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225562936240460&set=a.1617402035143

they didn't realize it was the glory days, they just made race cars for fun, and had cheap high octane gas at the local corner gas station

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-50#post-13455972

the "White Rocket" race car on the coast highway, Santa Monica.

https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll2/id/18901

race car on public roads, interesting visual situation. It's cool to see a racecar out of it's usual habitat

https://mmrider68.tumblr.com/

English engineer Robin Herd, co-founder of March Engineering, with the new 6 wheeled F1 car, derivitive of the Tyrrell P34

The March 2-4-0 was an experimental six-wheeled Formula One racing car built by the March Engineering company of Bicester, UK. It was constructed in late 1976 and tested in early 1977.

The car followed on from the successful use by Tyrrell Racing of a six-wheeled car, the Tyrrell P34, in Formula One racing.

In the attempt to decrease aero drag of big tires, the Tyrrell P34 had tried smaller front tires, but the added weight of the steering and suspension negated the improved aero.... so March decided to try experimenting with reduced tire sizes in the back, and see if the extra weight of gears, axles, and suspension would be offset by the increased traction.

Since there was not enough investment of fortunes to increase the improvement factor in the gearbox casing design, nothing became of it, the theory was proven sound enough, but blank check advancements in every other facet of F1 race cars proved to be the direction race car design went.

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/english-engineer-robin-herd-co-founder-of-march-engineering-news-photo/862249210
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2-4-0

the art of speed

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-art-of-speed_20.html

Palatov D4, 900 pounds, passes Porsches at the track for under 20k.

 A manufacturer’s prototype designed for track day driving.

Powered by a 1300cc Suzuki Hayabusa engine paired with a 6-speed motorcycle gearbox

This custom Jaguar race car was built by Sam Lyle for owner Warwick Hickling in New Zealand.

https://engineswapdepot.com/?p=39783&fbclid=IwAR0DiYo86MYa46zK1T_STllNmTu8Sa9NUsbpGZOjXjfI16vgHwma4eEynzg

This Lister Chevrolet missed being raced and famous, only because it had the wrong brake calipers. If they'd built it to the ordered specs, it would have been the " Black Beast of Foggy Bottom " instead, it sat at the dealership for a couple years, and then it was bought and stored for 4 decades without ever being raced in anger

It was built to fulfill an original order from Mrs Henry Clark Boden IV, a member of the immensely wealthy du Pont family. She enjoyed many sports as an enthusiastic sponsor and while she ran race horses on the American turf she also enjoyed fast cars.

She founded her Kelso motor racing team in 1957, running an ex-Bill Lloyd Maserati 300S, while her Kelso Autodynamics company held a Jaguar agency in addition to becoming one of the Lister company's four US distributors in 1958-59.

The office manager of Lister's other East Coast distributorship recalled how in 1958, Mrs Boden came to collect her brand-new Lister-Chevrolet, rush ordered from England, however she took one look at the brand-new car – commented that it had cast-iron brake calipers instead of the lightweight alloy type that she had specified, and when she was 'soft-soaped' by a rather patronizing salesman there she threw a fit and tore up her contract, scattering it like confetti, telling the salesman to keep 'his' car and stormed off.

She promptly called Carroll Shelby found that he had a Lister-Chevrolet immediately available, and so it was that car – chassis serial 'BHL 114' – which subsequently became famous as her 'The Black Beast of Foggy Bottom' as was inscribed in discreet gold letters on the car's ebony flanks.

This sequence of events left Auto Engineering with this racecar as unsold stock. Having lost their demanding original customer to Shelby-Hall in Texas, there was little they could do with the car and it remained unsold into 1960, some of the time "The mechanics found it a handy place to sit in and eat their lunches". Nothing ages so rapidly as last year's obsolescent racing car...

However, four years later 27-year-old Stan Hallinan agreed to purchase 'BHL 115' for $5,000, the date - January 18th, 1962. He subsequently used the car very sparingly, only for airport events, and occasionally – as Mr Hallinan would lightheartedly recall – for some diverting, mainly nocturnal, motoring on the public roads of New England.

Dana Freeman, the manager stuck for 4 years with the race car, recalls that he sourced a 283 cubic-inch Chevrolet V8 engine for it from the Momo Corporation – Alfred Momo being racing manager and technical director of the renowned Briggs Cunningham Racing Team - a spare power unit prepared for the Le Mans 24-Hour race in 1960.

When Hallinan was encountered near-disaster one winter when he found that frost had split this original engine's block, he reacted by having the engine rebuilt with its original Chevrolet Engineering internals being re-assembled into a new replacement block. The original block though disassembled, was retained and accompanies the car today. Thereafter this remarkable 'time machine' motor car slumbered on...being retained in almost completely original condition – even down to its original-equipment Dunlop Racing front tires, handbrake, horn, spare tire, top frame, plexi side windows, mufflers, and the original Lucas "Le Mans 24" headlamp lenses still in their place.

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20994/lot/163/

the 1957 Kurtis, the Caballo II, paint by Von Dutch original

I'm guessing this tach is an old rare one... time will tell, if I can find time to look it up

Mark Donohue stands in front of the Mercury GT40 Mk II that he and Peter Revson drove at Daytona in 1967. (1st I've heard of a Mercury GT40)

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/505973489414476/?fref=nf

The guys at the SAAC forum (who know their stuff) say it's legit, and you can read what they have to say about it at http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=31769.msg247848;topicseen

found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/505973489414476/?fref=nf


SAI fielded GT40 P1047 at Daytona in 1967.

It was driven by Foyt and Gurney and was in MKllb configuration. The Mercury livery was a one race occurence. P1047 completed many times in various paint schemes.

http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=31769.0

Here is AJ Foyt driving a Mercury (P/1047) at Daytona on Feb 4, 1967.
P/1047 was a Shelby American entry at this race and was not converted to MKII B specs until it was sent to Holman-Moody after this event.

A little known fact is that your friendly, local Lincoln-Mercury dealer would include the cardboard light covers free of charge with the purchase of your MKII:

Thorphacker Trout, could have had potential but for one problem. The inventor/driver was severely myopic

Chauncey Thorphacker was a noted welsh eccentric inventor. He made several attempts to build his own race cars. All were dismal failures, probably because he insisted on driving them himself despite being afflicted with severe myopia.

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/505973489414476/

1962 Lesovsky Indy Roadster / Sarkes Tarzian Special

Full gallery from a year ago at the Grand National Roadster Show http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-sarkes-tarzian-special.html

I'm pretty sure I've posted this before, with a full gallery, and that's why I didn't take a lot of photos of it. I don't repost stuff, it would be sorta stupid, when you can look at anything I've posted without me repeating myself. 

But seeing the tail of this car sucks without seeing the whole thing for appreciation of just how good looking it is.. so these two images are from 2012 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/wide-variety-of-cool-car-stuff-i-found.html

1933 Miller sprint car

Just taking a moment to appreciate chrome. Yup... I do that.

This car belongs to the Arizona Open Wheel Racing Museum in Phoenix http://www.azracingmuseum.org/index.php/az-open-wheel-racing-museum

1935 Rigling Stevens special