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Cadillac 353 V8 service car operated by Rotorua Motors in New Zealand.
interesting tour bus... I can't recall where I got the photo from though. Greybeard 56 I bet
this is how to grab attention at a international auto show, think outside the convention center! REO in 1927 Helsinki Auto Show
this, is a showroom built by the REO importer Mr Peltola, outside the auto show, to grab attention and isolate potential customers from the rest of the makers
Mr. Peltola the importer did not want to join the other car dealers at the show and decided to have his own display in a market square called Kasarmintori in Helsinki. A look inside the novelty shown in the middle photo above, demonstrates just how well the display showcased the product for the firm. At the far end can be seen a sales desk set up under and inside the cowl and hood. All show photos courtesy of perrasmotornostalgi via http://www.retronaut.com via http://theoldmotor.com/?p=112284
1954 La Carrera Panamerica
found on http://lacarrera2007.blogspot.com/2009/09/rare-la-carrera-panamericana-photos.html via
http://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2013/07/1954-la-carrera-panamericana.html
for program from the 1953 Panamericana, see Portago's site: http://deadlycurves.blogspot.com/2013/01/1953-carerra-panamericana-program.html
the 3 mile perfect circle of Corona (is that the origin of Perfect Circle piston rings?)
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then and now...
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Thansk Steve!
Imagine an America where races took place on public roads, before street signs, before highway patrol and patrol cruisers, before speed limits.
It'll never happen again.
"Where they raced" dvd just came out, here are a couple of clips
WHERE THEY RACED: Speed Demons in the City of Angels tells the story of a pre-gridlocked Los Angeles... a time ripe with orange groves, movie stars, year-round sunshine and more auto racing and innovation than anywhere else in the world. This documentary film is told with hundreds of vintage photos, lost archival films and revealing interviews that reunite the ghost tracks of Los Angeles with the cars that raced on them to give these fading memories a victory lap.
You will not find a more complete perspective on the historic Southern California racing scene. - AUTOWEEK
Winner - Motor Press Guild Best of the Year 2013 - Motor Press Guild
The film includes:
•Visit all 3 of Los Angeles’ boardtracks, we had the first, the best and the fastest
•Lakes, Parks & Rods with Wally’s son on the Pomona Drag
•Vic Edelbrock Jr. brings Roger Ward’s V8-60 back to Gilmore
• Ultimate barn find: a Peugeot that influenced Miller, Offy and decades of racing
•Ed Winfield’s #1 Ford is reunited with the remains of Legion Ascot & takes a lap
•Join Mickey Thompson’s son & first wife for a 1/4 mile walk down memory lane
•Eddie Pullen’s son, a ‘13 Fiat & a ‘11 National relive the Santa Monica Road Races
• Greg Sharp at NHRA & Leslie Kendall at the Petersen
•414 mph Land Speed Record holder Charles Nearburg shows off his 1926 Miller
•JC Agajanian Jr. talks Turkey Night
•Huell Howser sees something “Amazing” at the Corona Circle
•And much more in almost 2 hours of racing history
two screenings at:
Feb 9th at Automobile Driving Museum 2/9 @1PM
Feb. 26th at Petersen Automotive Museum 2/26 @ 7PM
the DVD is $25 and can be purchased at http://www.wheretheyraced.com/WHERE_THEY_RACED/Where_They_Raced.html
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