Period pictures, historical perspective

[Fast Fords]

Here is a pic of 910 back in the 70's and a couple of recent pics.

[honker]

These were up on the old forum, '67 in front of Washington State Patrol office, I think we had an i.d. on it, or where it was taken ?

Mike

[FL SAAC]

superb thread

[honker]

Here's a GT500 with inboards, as a pace car/promotional car at Soldier Field.

Mike

[honker]

Looking at something unrelated to Shelbys, I looked at this photo dated July 30th. 1967, its at Le Circuit Mt. Tremblant, in the

province of Quebec, Canada.  and thought "whats that !" never mind that '67 Camaro and hauler which is pretty neat on its own.

in the background parked behind the pits is a red '67, trunk is open,  looks like 10 spokes, has stripes. I had previously done some

research in my 2011 registry for cars sold in Canada, I might have missed some ? but I only found two red '67s, GT500s, hub cap

cars, both sold in Quebec through Sud Automobile, both shipped the same day 6/9/67.  #2074  &  #2105. There would be I think

enough time between delivery and sale and this image for the owner to have stripes painted, and the wheels switched over. I tried

blowing up the image, but loose too much resolution. One other thing, this was a regional event, so it's not likely you would find

someone from the U.S. competing there. 2011 registry says "present owner/whereabouts not known" since a new '67 registry is in

the works, maybe there is more information now ?

Mike

[Side-Oilers]

Good find!  Does it say "Club Cougar" on the Camaro's R/F fender?

[6s2055]

Going way back to the beginning of this post really made me feel old!! The two pictures with San Francisco's motorcycle cops was me with hair and about 90# lighter! That's 0962.

[Side-Oilers]

Think this is the one I originally posted on the crashed forum, best version I have...

.      Thermactor car eh?California?

Likely but not a forgone conclusion.  Thermactor cars ended up in non mandatory states sometimes. It depended on things like color and trans and if the combination was needed to fill a dealer order somewhere else. Most cars were built by SA on speculation to fill dealer "orders".

The man is George Elliott, who at the time was the Editor of Popular Hot Rodding (and my future boss.)  Cool guy, knows his stuff, and is a naturally talented driver/racer.
PHR's offices were in West L.A. 

[honker]

I have about 4or 5 shots of that Shelby with the CHP, great stuff ! Who took the pictures ?

notice how he's casually trying to hide the "Caution Fan" sticker 

Reminded me of this ad for the Cobra 

Mike

[s2ms]

These were up on the old forum, '67 in front of Washington State Patrol office, I think we had an i.d. on it, or where it was taken ?

Mike

Actually here on the new forum, in the Random car pictures thread, WAY back on pg. 76...

http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=243.msg38900#msg38900

[honker]

Following on the red car in the paddock at Le Circuit, July 30th '67, in my post here #34. there were these two on track. I think

the dark car is Gresco. I believe I had these up here before somewhere, forum 1 or more recent, these are different views.

Mike

PS: had the one car in the thread on 67 photos from the web, at that time richstang i.d'd the dark car as Gresko #1427 (there is

some time frame and owner history missing in 2011 registry) and the light car as  Grenier 0762 (jives with info in the 2011

registry)

[honker]

s2ms, thanks for reposting the link to the car at the Washington State patrol, bigger and better !

Mike

[owenkelley]

Think this is the one I originally posted on the crashed forum, best version I have...

.      Thermactor car eh?California?

Likely but not a forgone conclusion.  Thermactor cars ended up in non mandatory states sometimes. It depended on things like color and trans and if the combination was needed to fill a dealer order somewhere else. Most cars were built by SA on speculation to fill dealer "orders".

The man is George Elliott, who at the time was the Editor of Popular Hot Rodding (and my future boss.)  Cool guy, knows his stuff, and is a naturally talented driver/racer.
PHR's offices were in West L.A.
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Surprising to see theses valve covers on the car way back when.......

[557]

Dumb question but that's a horn on the outside of the hood bumper right?

[JD]

Dumb question but that’s a horn on the outside of the hood bumper right?

Yes, that is where the horns got relocated to on the outboard grille-light cars