Showing posts with label trailer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trailer. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2016

wow, a lot of cool happening in this 1931-34 photo... a Sikorsky S40, at Dinner Key, Florida ... and a 5th wheel trailer on a Model A used as a taxi


the Red Top Cab company, I will have to look up and see if I can find more.


And that seems to be the Caribbean Clipper with PAA, the Pan American Airways system


this last photo looks like a Jack Vettriano painting
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=16352&finish=15&start=75

http://www.panam.org/about-pahf/paa-a-brief-history

take another look at a Sikorsky S 40 to see how interesting the tail section and frame is


http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=16352&finish=15&start=225

Dinner Key was originally an island in Biscayne Bay, which was connected to the mainland with fill in 1914.

 In 1917, the Navy chose the site at Dinner Key to become the first continental Naval Air Station in the country. The base was commissioned the following year, and conducted flight training with 12 seaplanes and a single dirigible.

After the end of WW1, the Navy vacated Dinner Key, but the seaplane facility continued in operation by commercial operators. The New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Airline began service from Dinner Key in 1929. That airline was merged with Pan Am the following year. Pan Am operated an extensive route structure from Dinner Key in the 1930s.

in 1934 Pan Am put in an art deco passenger terminal





http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Airfields_FL_Miami_C.htm

Friday, May 27, 2016

"Scott’s shop is like an open-faced Bell helmet blast through Adventureland on methanol" ... Car Craft, June 2015. Scott was one of Mickey Thompson's employees from 67-71


After working at various Ford dealerships, Scott eventually landed a job with Mickey Thompson from 1967 to 1971 when Mickey was heavily associated with Ford, who funded most of his racing, including his famous record-setting efforts on the Bonneville salt.

Mickey took three Mustangs to set endurance records, with two cars on a 10-mile oval. Scott was there, helping to refuel the cars and keep the smudge pots burning during the night. Later, Mickey returned to the flats with his Ford-powered Autolite Special streamliner urged by a pair of 427 Cammers and Scott’s bright blue paint job.

 That was a time when pallet loads of engines and parts were delivered to Thompson’s southern California shop, dropped out of the sides of DC 3 cargo planes. How good was it back then? A well-funded shop might have a little 1963 Falcon Ranchero to run parts and get lunch. Scott’s parts chaser was a 1969 428 Cobra Jet Torino.


427 Ford with Mickey Thompson hemi heads... made of pure unobtanium.

Mickey Thompson only built four pairs of these Ford hemi heads, so the term “rare” doesn’t begin to describe them. Scott says one set ran in Mickey Thompson’s Thunderbolt, with another set as backup, a third set went into a supercharged dragster while the final set sat in the window of M/T’s retail store in Long Beach for sale for $3,200. There were only three cross ram intakes ever built.

Lightweight 63.5 Galaxie that ran a best of 9.26 at 149 mph



the Hemi in this T-bird has a turbocharger and three Carter carburetors. The engine has been relocated six inches to the right to accommodate the set-up. The car has a separate methanol tank and pump system to feed the third carburetor. The Hemi made 804hp normally aspirated and 1,100 on alcohol, and was put together by an engineer who worked at Garret AiResearch turbos


In the photo, it appears Big Daddy in the far lane has a comfortable lead, but Voigt power from the supercharged M/T Pontiac hemi was enough to power past the Swamp Rat for the win. As part of the Top Eliminator prize, Craftsman awarded the winning crew chief the aforementioned tool box that Voigt kept (including its original cardboard container) all these years.



Cool trailer design, coffin top on stilts that pivots up out of the way

http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/ccrp-1207-scott-dapron-this-guys-garage/
http://www.hotrod.com/features/1506-look-at-this-unbelievable-stash-of-factory-race-cars/