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Showing posts with label 2012 Speedfest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012 Speedfest. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
If you're ever offered a ride in a race car, take it. If you ever have the chance to get this close to the race track, do it. (pardon the low quality, it's my cell phone movie)
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 10:31 PMLabels: 2012 Speedfest, race cars, Trans Am
Coronado Brewing Company has a cool 1924 Model T for advertising
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 6:14 PMLabels: 2012 Speedfest, advertising, model T
Monday, October 1, 2012
racers tricks to make a factory Talladega even more aerodynamic
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 10:50 PMLabels: 2012 Speedfest, aerodynamics, informative, Nascar, Talladega, Torino
the NAS North Island Speedfest invited the San Diego chapter of the American Truck Historic Society, these 4 cool rigs were great to look over!
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:34 PM the White is a 1941 that Gilmore owned originally. Posted here http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/09/1941-white-semi-tractor-trailer-that.html
the red white and black is a 1955 Kenworth
this orange and black is a 1971 Kenworth
and this brown Kenworth is a 1969... I posted a couple photos last weekend of it, Jeff bought this at age 19, and worked with it for the next 20 years, getting 3 million miles under and behind him... he then converted it with the only stipulations from his wife that it have a toilet and a shower. They're both happy!
http://www.aths.org/ for the website of the American Truck Historical Society
and they get together for convoys occasionally like this Route 66 news item in the San Berdo Sun Newspaper article: http://www.sbsun.com/ci_21552862
the red white and black is a 1955 Kenworth
this orange and black is a 1971 Kenworth
and this brown Kenworth is a 1969... I posted a couple photos last weekend of it, Jeff bought this at age 19, and worked with it for the next 20 years, getting 3 million miles under and behind him... he then converted it with the only stipulations from his wife that it have a toilet and a shower. They're both happy!
http://www.aths.org/ for the website of the American Truck Historical Society
and they get together for convoys occasionally like this Route 66 news item in the San Berdo Sun Newspaper article: http://www.sbsun.com/ci_21552862
Friday, September 28, 2012
Opel GT with customized license plates to accommodate the cars odd size and shape
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 10:43 PMLabels: 2012 Speedfest, license plates, Opel
Hornet X Sportabout station wagon... I don't think I ever heard of one before
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 10:37 PMLabels: 2012 Speedfest, AMC, Station Wagon
Labels: 2012 Speedfest, VW
the Porsche badges I haven't seen before, photographed at this years Speedfest Porsche paddock
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 10:30 PMLabels: 2012 Speedfest, Porsche
Thursday, September 27, 2012
a recreation of a 1920s dirt track race car, the Bug A Tee (Sounds like Bugatti)
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:55 PMLabels: 2012 Speedfest, boattail
Lyn St James, icon... race car driver and I came across one of the race cars she's owned at Speedfest this year
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:49 PMJust consider how few people can race professionally, now think how few of them win, then how few have won the 24 Hours at Daytona, and the 12 Hours of Sebring. Lyn did that. She also earned a piano teaching certificate.
That is cool! http://www.lynstjames.com/about/
Labels: 2012 Speedfest, Icon, Mercury, race cars
Labels: 2012 Speedfest, mustang
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Nice Mustang, and great collection of stickers and decals... but I noticed the unique treatment of the license plate, first I've seen made to look like a 1960's
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 10:14 PMPutting the Holman Moody decal across the hood this way sure grabbed my attention, but then I glanced at the plate, and noticed the aging and color treatment that they've given it, as it is not a 1960' plate, it's just the right colors. The new plates are easy to spot, because they have 7 characters. All the yellow letter on black background plates for cars were 6 characters, the first 3 were letters, the 2nd 3 were numbers. Of course the commercial vehicles (includes El Camino and Ranchero) were different and easy to distinguish from the cars plates
also the front and back have a different texture in this aging and coloring example
pretty cool to go to this trouble to make the plates seem to be the right ones for the decade. If this car really had the black and yellow plates for a car from 1965-66 they would probably be something like ppp111 through sss-999
Labels: 2012 Speedfest, license plates, unique
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