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James (Jim) Hoe of Weston, Connecticut, was a well-known Duesenberg mechanic in the 1950s, and a sports car and racing enthusiast. Classic cars became popular with collectors in the mid-1950s, with the Model “J” Duesey being the most desirable of all. Hoe then began restoring the famed Model “J” Duesenberg cars in his Sports Car Garage located…
Like many automotive fads and trends, the miniature car racing movement apparently started in California in the late-1930s by individuals who constructed cars using small gasoline-powered two-stroke model airplane engines. After learning more about the little racing cars recently, and viewing some of the interesting pre and post-war newsreel films covering “spindizzies” and “tether” racing cars…
The Bear Manufacturing Co. of Rock Island, Illinois, for over four decades set up its state of the art wheel alignment equipment near the car garages in Gasoline Alley and offered wheel alignments to all car owners and crew chiefs. Today’s pair of staged images, taken on May 4, 1954, contains a Bear Manufacturing Co. wheel alignment rack and…
Earlier in the week, Charlie Stuart’s 1953 Studebaker Commander Hoosier “100” Pace Car was featured here, and today we cover the Indianapolis Oldsmobile dealer’s involvement in the 1960 Indianapolis 500 race. But first, we need to return back to the 1950s and two racing incidents that changed the face of the sport forever. At the 1955…
In addition to running the Indianapolis 500 race which is held yearly on Memorial Day weekend, in 1953 the AAA, the sanctioning body of the National Championship Trail Races added a second race date to the calendar in Indy, the Hoosier “100.” This race was held in mid-September on the one-mile dirt track at the Indiana State Fairgrounds,…
Greg Brotherton, a Washington State roadster racer directed a very enjoyable and unique thirty-minute documentary film about an old time midget racer that we will share with you this upcoming Saturday. Today’s feature contains a very interesting short 2:18 video, “No Race Track There” of Hot Rod Races that Brotherton attended in 1948 which were held in Sultan,…
Today we travel to the Goodwood Road Racing circuit located in southeastern England to view the exciting highlights of three races that were run at the Members Meeting yesterday. The event is a reenactment the race meets held earlier in the fifties and sixties at Goodwood for members of the British Automobile Racing Club. The racing is only…
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