Old, scanned shoe-box pictures

[aeronca65t]

I'm not *quite* done with this, but mostly, so here it is....

~CLICK HERE~ to see some of my old, scanned motorsports photos (found in some shoe-boxes) from the '60s and '70s. There are snaps taken by others too (with credit). Doug sent me a bunch of west coast shots a while back and I will try to get to those in a while too.

One of things I miss nowadays are all the "specials" we used to see. Here's some samples from the link above:

(Below) A VW-based car with a body made from <u>Masonite!</u>

(Below) Judy James' very fast MGA special

(Below) A Triumph-based special at Bridghampton

 

[Basil]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

That TR looks like a Remington Electric Razor /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

 

[aeronca65t]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

That TR looks like a Remington Electric Razor /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

He buzzes the competition but there are some close shaves on the turns /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

<span style='font-size: 8pt'> Sorry....I *just* couldn't resist.</span>

 

[aerog]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

More great scans... cripes, some of 'em are ugly though /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

"Body by Hoover"!!!

 

[JamesWilson]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Tin boxes!
Makes my bodywork skills look half decent. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hammer.gif

 

[AngliaGT]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

How'd you get a picture of Doc's car (behind the MGA-
-special)?Photoshopped?

- Doug

 

[jsneddon]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

How'd you get a picture of Doc's car (behind the MGA-
-special)?Photoshopped?

- Doug

that's not Doc's car... doc's car has a special coating of lawn-furniture cushions, milk-crates full of empty CAB cans, and neatly tied stacks of the Weekly World News as to make it invisible to any BCF members

/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

SOME bits of it are still stickin' out to see. And those stacks of the Weekly World News will be ~valuable~ some day! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif

 

[AngliaGT]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Nial,

GREAT pictures!I just hope that the Torino that
you rode around the track in was one o' them there GT models.
That what a friend of ours said about all of my old
cars - "Some day they'll be worth something",to which I
replied - "Oh no they won't".
I guess if the scrap market goes up that they'll
increase in value.

- Doug

 

[bugimike]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Just read the whole thing on your "click here" link, and now I'm sure I know your friend sitting on the back of your Spridget! Can you come up with a name? Your comments on the "band scene", nearby Freehold etc. and Springsteen (pre-fame)leads me to believe we must have crossed paths back in the day. Did you ever hang out in the Red Bank/Asbury/Brookdale CC area much back then? Shadow Lake?

 

[aeronca65t]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Mike:
You mean the guy sitting on the Bugeye? (second picture down).
That's Dave Fuch, from Jackson High School (NJ), Class of '69 (I think).

I'll send you a PM on what I know about him....check your mail in a while.

 

[Sherlock]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Great photo page! The image quality leaves something to be desired in most cases /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif But the great memories are evident throughout...

My favourite line from the commentary? The one about Roger Penske asking you to get a beer for Mark Donohue, like that would even be allowed anymore...

 

[vping]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

What's that the Fiat club in the upper corner?

 

[aeronca65t]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

What's that the Fiat club in the upper corner?

AT first, I didn't know what you wre talking about...then I went back and scanned through the photos.

I guess you meant ~THIS~ picture.

Yep! Looks like the FIAT gang with a TR3 thrown in! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

 

[bugimike]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Well, Nial, you got me going through old boxes now!!

I found these pix of interesting cars I took with a Brownie box camera at the '77 NY Auto Show

(I tried to add more than 5 pix and it didn't post any!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif ) Doesn't that guy in the fist pic look like Bob Dylan?

 

[DNK]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Mike- You forgot something

 

[DrEntropy]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif

whoops.

 

[AngliaGT]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Geez guys,they're invisible pictures.Duh!

- Doug

 

[Sherlock]

Re: Old, scanned car pictures

Yup, the newest thing in photography, the invisible look... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif