Showing posts with label Factory race car. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Factory race car. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

James Garner's "American Intenational Racing" Corvette racing team

Anyone else notice that the below vette isn't the same white tail paint scheme as all the others in this gallery?



from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=561

Friday, December 17, 2010

1969 David Pearson #17 Holman Moody Ford Torino Cobra Talledega, is it the same car as the one in my banner?

Here's the original that I used for my banner above, it must be the following car... just different graphics due to circumstances



Holman Moody prepared Ford's first purpose-built NASCAR racer, the Torino Talledega, for Pearson, who won 11 races and his third championship.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

paint design by wind tunnel, good idea!

LeMans 1970. Porsche 917LH “Psychedelic”. The cars paint scheme came from the painter who put green dabs on the car and placed it in a wind tunnel while the paint was still wet. This was the end result and he placed it on the real car. Only two of these cars built. The sister car set the fastest lap and reached a top speed of 245 mph.
Via: http://eknude.tumblr.com/

Sunday, October 17, 2010

when your rear wheel parts company with your race car and passes you in the turn, it must be Monday

Photo from http://5window.tumblr.com/ I think, it might have been http://motomania.tumblr.com/ ... I can't recall.

Funniest photo I've seen all day. While I'm on the topic; overheard at the car show today " this girl asked if she could get in my Minerva, so I said "Sure go ahead".. and waited til she was halfway in, and then said "I'm sure the owner won't mind . . . " and she freaked out.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

The race cars have returned! They'll be racing on North Island NAS all weekend, it's called Speedfest. They met at Orange and Isabella for a car show

Driven from the pits of the track on NAS Miramar, and over to Orange and Isabella near the Hotel Del Coronado... in the usual location of the Coronado car show that happens each spring in March or April




















Two Lagondas were there... way cool! Above and below are both Lagondas



Keep fresh spark plugs handy... great idea!