Old Bonneville Pictures

[#31]

an old one

[Stainless1]

OK guys, a few more from me.  I think this is the Lingua Brothers and Father Streamliner.  I think they just brought it for inspection and may have made a couple of low speed passes.  The motor is a blown Honda 500cc inline 4.  Those guys ran nitro and nitrous if I remember it right, they have made some very impressive single passes, seems like in the 250 range, still hold the K/BF streamliner record.

[Stainless1]

I know you asked for roadsters but I don't have a lot of roadsters... but here are some 

[Stainless1]

And a few more roadsters.... 



and a coupe. 

[#31]

the burkdolls original paint

[Stainless1]

Bo, your dad always does nice work...

How about some odd ones... I think the van ran as a comp coupe, and the other I remember being a Crosley, but not positive on that. 
Nice little car

[#31]

i want a van like that

[4-barrel Mike]

I think the Crosley morphed into the "ARINCEE" roadster.

Mike

[RichFox]

A few more pictures of the Crosley. Later it was turbocharged. I'm told he still has it. The other car was a Chevy "Master" frame with a Chrysler eight. The guy was serious. It was his race car. Also a USFRA meet.

[Robin UK]

While all those collective memory cogs are turning, this is the perfect excuse to ask if anybody can date this pic from the Don Fetherson book - Heroes of Hot Rodding. The caption says it's Ak Miller who set a class C record with an early Cobra. It's Ak OK but not a Cobra. Ignoring the nostril intake, the nose shows that it's actually an earlier AC Ace fitted with a 260 motor. I had a bit of a rummage around and found out that AC shipped at least one Ace minus engine to a US buyer some time in the late 50s. Could this be it I wonder. And if it is, is begs the question, did Ak (who knew Shelby for sure) get there before him to create a 'Cobra' or was he inspired by Shelby to drop a Ford motor into an Ace he just happened to have handy?

Robin

[Robin UK]

Here's one that's not that old (1996) but shows AJ Foyt with Breedlove for the photo shoot just before the first runs.

Robin

[Stainless1]

Hey here we have 2 bikes,

and 2 smart spectators... if you look closely you notice the mountains reflected in the lake, I think we drove through a lot of water to race that year

[Stainless1]

A couple more Winged cars... I'm just guessing the first is a Dodge and the second is Lindsley's Plymouth

Then a couple of cars that Cook was involved with
The Burke Avanti and a Flopper

Question guys?  Is this the fried Vega that everyone is talking about on the mystery car thread?

[JimL]

More from 1969

1 Bob Leppan with the 3 cylinder 750 installed

2 750 Triple where two 650s used to live

3 Right after the clutch let go

4 His bike on the trailer

[JimL]

More bikes (that was my first love, in my youth!)

1 In the bike line, my 450 Honda in front of my Dad's van (seen through the windshield)

2 Another shot in the line.  I was running APS-C-500 and A-AG-500 (open record) that year.  The bike put 20 mph onto the existing APS record (to 121.102)

3 In 2007 the bike is candy blue (actually painted it that color for the 1969 "Wheelstand Championship" event at Orange County Raceway).  That Fall the bike ran a 13.37 quarter mile on Wednesday night, before blowing the right piston on a 13.58 "wheelie run" during Sunday racing. 

4 On my 62nd birthday, 2007.  Notice I've lowered the bars, fixed the exhuast (in '69 I had them hanging on long straps that cracked and broke easily, and the headers were hoseclamped to the megs).  Also put a scrambler front fender on it (strangely, the original long rusted away), and I lost the fairing years ago in Colorado (one of life's mysteries).