Jim’s News
Each year around the Holidays, our intrepid AHRF curator, Jim Miller, dusts off his illustrator’s pen and offers up a fun little hot rod themed Santa scene to share with our community. This year we decided to provide this overview of Jim’s works through the years for anyone who missed them. Click on any image…
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Car guys are interesting folks. Some only like one kind of vehicle while others like anything with wheels. In this category, we have to include one Tom Sparks. We first ran across him at Rosamond Dry Lake back in 1945 driving a Model A. A half-century later he’s judging the world’s finest rides at Pebble…
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Being that it’s a new year and we are all revved up and full of spit and vinegar lets jump into what been happening in-between all the social stuff. Last week we started off with a cool looking T run-about shot we got from Dave Ward. To remind you, his Grand-pa was one Harvey Ward,…
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As I sit here pushing buttons on the keyboard I keep asking myself where did the year go. It’s not like someone came in and walked off with thirty or sixty days, it just seems like time vanishes when you get caught up with the zillions of the cool pictures and goodies that we get…
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It seems like every weekend this past year had us booked doing something cool. And that’s not counting the umpteen thousands of new goodies that came across our desk for archiving and identification. We’ve grabbed one shot from each month’s adventures to give you a little recap and next week we’ll do the same on…
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Here we go again. You may have noticed a little problem with the site last week, well, we’re still trying to figure out what happened ourselves. In the meantime just pretend that you pushed the wrong button on your keyboard. Here’s what we’ve been up to this week. We attacked some more of the Don…
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The hardest part of doing what we do at the Foundation is the loss of a friend. We got word early in the week that Bill Burke passed away. This one really hurts. Growing up with the car magazines it was well what’s Bill gonna show up with this year at Bonneville. Then it was…
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Normally weekends are the whackiest times for the AHRF as we’re out and about shooting the ol “in twenty years it might be famous” doings. You could say that this last week turned into an almost everyday deal to with the L.A. Auto Show on Tuesday, Isky’s on Wednesday, the 75th Annual Turkey Night Grand…
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After recouping from a busy last weekend it was time to get serious about picking some shots from the way-to-many taken and then adding some verbiage to them for you. We also got to relax by scanning almost 50 Autograph Cards picked up in Pomona. Along the way, we scanned another 100 or so old…
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To start the week off we dug out some more of the fantastic Bill Phy shots from the collection and ran them through our clean up and identify process for you. We also finished up scanning another batch of Henning photos. This time the negatives were so contaminated we had to rewash and dry them….
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We ran into the folks from Hemming’s Motor News at the Race of Gentlemen a couple of weeks ago. The did a splash in their magazine a while ago on the AHRF so it was only fair to give them a hand when they called early in the week about some early info on Isky’s…
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Every time we turn around there is another weekend event that says hey dude, you gotta go. This weekend was the California Hot Rod Reunion up in Bakersfield. The event is put on by the Wally Parks NHRA Museum and all the money that’s made here goes to funding their great Emporium of Speed. Every…
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After getting some rest from last weekend’s adventures in New Jersey it was back to work trying to get some of the stuff in the in-box into the out-box. We got a bit done so sit down and enjoy the ride. Let’s start with turning the clock back some 69 years to a shot that’s…
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We spent the last four days over in Wildwoods, New Jersey for the Race of Gentlemen getting a dose of real hot-rod-ism. It was like turning back the clock to a much simpler time. Before departing we had to clear off our desk and desktop to make sure we had some workspace after our adventure….
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The first three days of this last week we were busy gathering up a bunch of shots and posting them in the Photo of The Day section. Naturally, there were some problems and Captions disappeared on shots already posted. Arg, Computers. David Steel and I were supposed to of flown out Thursday to attend the…
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We took a little break from scanning the first part of the week and dug into the archives. We’ve got lots of old shots just waiting to get words to go with them so here are a few for you. Let’s travel back to the year 1941 to have a look at a ride that…
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Most of the stuff we do around here is pretty straight forward. Take an image, give it a key number, clean it if necessary, scan it, retouch a few spots, then try and figure out the who, what, where and the when of it. There are exceptions naturally and we were faced with a good…
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It was another hectic week for us at the AHRF but we made up for some of that by goofing off a little at El Mirage on Saturday and Sunday. Along with getting doses of nitro and listening to engines rumble while shaking the ground, we got plenty dirty. It was also pay-back time courtesy…
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We started out this week with more bad news. Longtime friend and AHRF Pioneer Dick Gulstrand passed away. Growing up in Culver City was like being in race car heaven. There was Ted Halibrand and Norden Machine Works who made Carbs and Steering. Down the block, Emil Diedt had a shop and close by was…
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Early in the week, I was talking to friend, and AHRF contributor, Kay Kimes. We were trying to figure out who a person in a shot was that I thought might be Harvey Haller. It wasn’t but it got me doing some research that determined the first seven shots in today’s story. Are you ready?…
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We’re pretty bummed out around here as we learned Friday that our good friend Otto Ryssman had just passed away. Otto was one of the early drag and lakes racers that befriended the AHRF with photos and knowledge and everywhere we met is was like we were family. Our heart is with his family. Our…
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Ron Hope shows up everywhere with one of his cars. At the August 8th SCTA Mile at the Mojave Spaceport, he was there with more than one ride (JMC_5565). We snapped a picture of his Modified Roadster waiting in line Saturday morning before it’s first run at 11:36 AM. Unfortunately one of the twin Turbo’s…
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Tracking the lives of race cars is sometimes easy and sometimes a real bear depending on how famous the car was or who drove it. Take for example the So-Cal Streamliner. We know the car was originally a belly-tank lakester that Alex and Dean ran. They modified the car for the ‘49 lakes season by…
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It’s only fitting that we start this week with a souvenir that was done for Speedweek that now languishes in the S.C.T.A. sales trailer. It’s a dash tag featuring Danny Thompson’s Challenger II (JMC_5574). It’s also ironic that the start date for Speedweek is even screwed up on the tag. Could we use the old…
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It’s been a whacky last couple of weeks. In between scans we’ve been helping out our “old” friend (he’s 86 years old) Joe Henning move. He’s been in the same location for over three decades so needless to say has collected a lot of automotive memorabilia. We’re lucky enough to be able to scan some…
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This Saturday we took a little ride out to Fontana for a visit to the little drag strip tucked behind the big raceway that’s best known for hosting Champ Car and NASCAR races. It was billed a Test & Tune for those wanting to debug or just get some seat time in their race cars….
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It’s that time again for another weekend spent at El Mirage for the second race of the 2015 S.C.T.A. Season. In the June 22 issue, I mentioned the Skip Pipes Racing Class F Blown Fuel Roadster running the number 374 (JMC_5485). We stated it was powered by a GMC 6-banger with a monster Turbocharger setup….
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One of the challenges we face all the time is putting together pieces of the hot rod puzzle. It real life when you get a puzzle you unbox it and sort out the edges and assemble them to give you some parameters to work within. In our case, we can’t begin to define borders let…
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A few months back we got a big shot in the arm with hundreds of great old pictures from our pal Joe Henning. I paid another visit to the wizard of illustrations this week and again have returned with yet more fantastic goodies. In the previous bunch of shots from Joe, we had run across…
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It was a pretty productive week at the AHRF as we finished off scanning all of the John Haigler Collection that consisted of 182 images. We still have to do some research on most of the shots but we’re lucky because most of them had some notes written on them to help us in our…
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It’s Father’s Day Weekend and that means Roadster Time at the L.A. County Fairground and trips to a few builders shops and their open houses. Let’s say we were not disappointed. First stop of the busy weekend was the So-Cal Speed Shop on Friday. As usual, tons of cool cars that we’ve seen before and…
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This week we’ve been running around like a chicken with our head cut off and have somehow managed to put ten pounds of ? in our five-pound bag. Last week we showed you some early Bay Area Roadsters that were just a small sampling from an old scrapbook courtesy of our pal Chet Knox. Let’s…
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On Friday, we all flew into Denver, Colorado. Some of us had to dodge some nasty weather by taking the scenic route to avoid golf-ball hail and a top off of almost empty fuel tanks up in Cheyenne, Wyoming before headed south again for Denver. Safely on the ground, a rental car took us North…
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As you may have noticed the AHRF website has had more than its share of problems. If it were a car we could have gone in an changed a fuel pump or spark plug or done an overhaul on the five-speed trans and been up an running in no time. Not so with web sites….
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Since we’re about to leave one year and enter the next I thought it might be cool to show you a little old and new on a similar subject matter. It makes our life easier this week since Christmas fell right in the middle of the week and got a little in the way of…
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The weather’s been yucky around here and my nose has been running a 440-yard dash of late so that’s a good excuse to crank up the heat and do some scannin’. We dug out some Don Cox B&W negs from the late ’40s and had at it. First up for this week we see the…
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We always think of the roots of hot rodding in Southern California as emanating from the dry lakes. The more you dig into that premise the more we find it a little flawed. All one has to do is look at Henry’s T’s in the ’20s and all the speed-buggies for the road they turned…
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Around here we’re suckers for anything that has to do with cool cars. In our travels this week we ran across a couple of goodies that said take me home to scan so that’s what we did. Let’s have a look, shall we? Old postcards are cool especially if there is a racing car or…
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If you live in a big city you’re usually blessed or cursed with a yearly Auto Show where you can go and check out the latest offerings from your favorite manufacturer. This last week the Los Angeles Convention Center played host to such an event so we had to go and check it out. One…
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Once a month we grab a bunch of different shots from our archives and prep them for the Photo of the Day section on the site. Lots of what gets picked are shots that we haven’t identified or captioned yet and this process takes a good couple of days so you can guess what we…
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A few months back we received a bunch of shots taken at Speedweek in 53. The shooter was John Peschek from Tacoma. Early this week we received an envelope from John with a shot he had just found in his Man Cave (PCK_048). John and his buddies had just arrived after a 24-hour drive from…
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The problem with us “keep everything” types is you forget what you’ve got. Earlier this year I dug out a box full of old negs shot too many years ago. There were a bunch that had never been put in sleeve’s so it was time to do the right thing and head to the camera…
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You would think that after doing all the pictures and stories every week for the last few years it would get a little easier. In actuality it harder. It’s kinda like when you go surfing the net for info on a particular subject that leads you to another and another and pretty soon you’re off…
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The last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at show cars, or as the cool folks say Kustom Rods. We can trace them back to Harley Earl working at his dad’s body shop that built custom bodies in Los Angeles way before he was tapped to go to Detroit and start General Motor’s design department….
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There is that old adage that time flies when you’re having fun. I guess that’s true around here as every time one turns around it’s Sunday night again and another story has to get put together for you. This week was no exception, as Friday, Saturday and Sunday were occupied with a trip up to…
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It takes a little time to recoup after three days of race cars making loud noises, especially at Bakersfield. Add to that having problems getting into the back of the website to post, it became back to work time sorting new shots taken and reflecting on the event. Watching the cars spinning tires and popping…
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No there is nothing wrong with our equipment, we’re just going to put this week’s happenings a bit out of order because we can. It’s also a good excuse to show you some new goodies we’ve found first instead of last. This Saturday the morning was spent at the yearly S.C.T.A. Rules Meeting where all…
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Every time we turn around new info show up that helps us shed some light on past hot rod history. Other times it’s right in front of our face and we don’t realize it. A good example is our pal Jere Sheehan down Florida way who’s been getting us up to speed on right coast…
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Some cars are built using nothing but imagination and maybe a few chalk lines drawn on the floor. Others are designed down to the last nut and bolt. In between, there are a million ways to arrive at a unique design. Let us look at a few in the flesh and a few that are…
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We had a good time last weekend at New England Dragway during Hot Rod Reunion II. The car count was up, so the folks at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum, Larry Fisher and Greg Sharp, were happy. And the weather was great except for a little late Saturday afternoon rain. The AHRF had a booth…
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As I mentioned last week it was off to Epping New Hampshire and New England Dragway for the second installment of the New England Hot Rod Reunion. After spending Wednesday through Monday getting to and fro it was time to spend Tuesday getting some pictures sorted and penning a few words to let you know…
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This week we finished off all our newly sent photographs. It feels great but acts as a reminder that we have a bunch of donated shots waiting in the wings that are yelling scan me first. Ah, the fun never ends. Let’s look at a little of what we’ve accomplished this week. First up is…
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We don’t pay much attention to clocks around here because if we did nothing would get done. Once you sit down in front of the computer the next thing you know 10 or 12 hours are gone and it feels like you haven’t even touched the surface of the big pile of goodies next to…
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We’ve just finished off four rolls of 35 mm color negatives and a bunch of 2 1/4” x 3 1/4” black and white negs ranging from 1966 to 1970 and taken at the Grand National Roadster show when it was held in Oakland. There all courtesy of Doug Rasmussen who’s from Omaha but was an…
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This year is the first time I’ve gone to Bonneville as a spectator since 1995. All the years in between then and now have been as a worker, inspecting cars and doing impound, etc. When you work an event that doesn’t leave much time to cruise around, collect dirt and take pictures so it was…
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While you’re checking out this week’s story I’ll be getting sunburned and checking out all the neato-keano rides at Bonneville. This will also be the first time in 19 years and 36 visits to the salt that I’ll be a spectator instead of a worker so one can actually wander around and take pictures for…
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Doing research is really boring. It consists of countless hours searching out little bits of information that you don’t even know exists. Even worse is where do you look for this info that you don’t even know exists? Friday night I ran into a friend over at Bob’s Big Boy and he told me a…
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Before taking off for Bonneville next week one has to do a little double time trying to lower the piles of goodies on the desk and some extra work like prepping a story and sending it to our Right Coast Diva Pascal to post next weekend while I’m working on a suntan on the great…
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A few weeks back we received a call from Scott Phy out of the blue. If we turn back the clock to 1950 we’ll find Scott’s dad, Bill, and the Stanford Brothers were the real deal and ended up winning the S.C.T.A. Championship that year with their V8-60 powered bellytank Lakester. Fast forward to this…
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Ever since I could remember we’ve always celebrated this special day by honoring our flag, having a parade and celebrating with fireworks. Along with this tradition, we always reinforce it with the saying ”As American as Apple Pie and Baseball”. At this time I would like to make a little change to this. We can…
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This week we’ve been busy playing with some old color negs shot at the Grand National Roadster Show back in 1968 courtesy of Doug Rasmussen out of Omaha, Nebraska. We’ve been so used to seeing shots in black and white that it’s exciting to see the cars in living color. Doug kept the original 3…
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This week went really fast especially after posting the AHRF story one day late. By mid-week, the S.C.T.A. had posted last weekend’s race results so it was time to do a little captioning of photos. Let’s look at a few. JMC_5024 shows us that Dave Bennett of the Road Runners is getting a handle on…
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We’ve been playing catchup for the last couple of weeks. Being out of the office for five days really sets one back a bit in our quest of getting the pile of things to do smaller. Were on the downhill slope of scanning a tone of Grand National Roadster Show negs scanned. Most of them…
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Let’s start with last weekend and the trip to Johnny Carson Park for the Road Kings Car Show. We showed you some snaps we took while walking around that were mostly street drivable. One we didn’t show you took part in a little Cackle Fest and was burning its fair share of a thing called…
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For the last couple of weeks, we have been scanning some negs and prints that were taken at the 1966 Grand National Roadster Show. We got them from our Bonneville racing buddy Gary Hartsock who lives up in the Bay Area. Normally when you go to a car show and take your camera you usually…
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Last year we got to go back to Epping, New Hampshire for the First New England Hot Rod Reunion. We had so much fun that we decided to give Bowling Green a shot in a few weeks. We had done up some display materials that a lot of folks went ga-ga over so were prepping…
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We often ask ourselves the above question. In the last seventy years, there have been thousands of rods, customs, and race cars built and they just don’t vanish off the face of the earth. We all know how much time and money each of us has invested in our daily drivers so it’s hard to…
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Every few months we take all the images we’ve managed to save on our hard drive and download them onto some “Dell Cartridges” and ship them back to our storage vault for safekeeping. We’re in the multiple thousands of images on our hard drive and that amount to around 1.8 Terabytes in geek-speak. That means…
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Last week we had a little fun with noses, or as the really late and great W. C. Field’s use to say Proboscises. From Indy rides to custom rods to lakes racers they just looked right on rods. We used Dick Flint’s car as a benchmark because it got the most widespread attention in the…
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In the past and the last installments of the news, we’ve mentioned about roadster’s as race cars and how the roots of hot rod style were developed before World War II on the streets an at the dry lakes of sunny So-Cal. We can take that a little farther and say a more sophisticated evolved…
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We like to think that hot rods are really race cars in disguise. Since it’s not too practical to drive a racer on the streets the next best thing is to make your streetser look like a racecar and drive the #&@% out of it. That’s exactly what happened to our first vehicle for this…
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In our March 31 story, we showed you a picture of Art McCormic’s light-colored street roadster. For the record, I goofed because I spelled McCormic’s last name wrong and used a K instead of a C. Shame on Me! To make up for the goof we present another picture of the car a year down…
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At the end of last week, we received a bunch of photos from Gary Hartsock that were taken at the Grand National Roadster Show and featured a few in last week’s story. We did a thorough sort at the beginning of this week matching up prints with negs etcetera and then got into scan mode….
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This week we finished off another box of 8” x 10” prints from the ‘30’s that gave us a little room on our desk. As goes all good plans, exit one box and enter another. We received a box from Gary Hartsock full of Grand National Roadster Show shots from the ’60s that fit perfectly…
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When we get print collections we do a pre-sort before scanning and group them according to the good old stamped number on the back courtesy of whatever photo lab printed them. Doing this is a big help as we can usually match up what shots were from what roll of film. This little trick makes…
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It seems we are always running across stuff that nobody seems to know anything about. That’s a good thing unless you have to do some research and put it into the timeline of hot rod history. A perfect example is a hard to read blueprint we just ran across dated June 25, 1963 that shows…
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This week we finished off scanning and retouching all of Texanite Sonny Rossi’s shots and are now working with him to get more details on his rides. One of the most fascinating of them to us is SRC_005, his home-built this three-wheeled drag machine. It used a 650cc Triumph for power and lots of “Junk…
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As we know our friends at the Post Office are on hard times spending way more money than they take in (Does this sound like another Government system we know about?). Anyhow, the Post Office that use to be three blocks from us was closed down and moved about a mile away. No problem except…
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While doing research the last couple of weeks on the First NHRA National Drags held in ‘55 and the Edna, Kansas drag race in ‘54 we ended up digging out our old Hot Rod magazines to get a handle on how the early drag race Regional and Nationals event thing got started and also to…
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It’s been retouch and caption week around here. That also means pulling one’s hair out on trying to find documentation to help get things right, especially the old stuff. A case in point is the First NHRA National Drag Races held at Great Bend, Kansas back in 1955. We got “Official” HNRA documents from Bob…
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Last week we received some old negatives from Geoffrey Skene out of Wyoming. We didn’t get a chance to touch them with all our running around so it’s only fair to show you one this week after we cleaned it up and played with the exposure some. Waiting patiently in his Class C Modified Roadster…
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This last week we finished scanning all of Josh Mishler’s 95 drag race shots that he has lent us. On Tuesday night it was take in the monthly Sidewinders Car Club meeting and on Wednesday morning it was bop over to the Trompers Car Club meeting. Thursday it was search for some more rare photos…
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As you can guess we got a lot of shots at the Grand National Roadster Show last weekend. Well guess what you have to do when you take lots of shots, that’s right, go through every single one to see what came out ok. We did that for about a day before we jumped on…
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The last few months have kept us super occupied with what seems like a never-ending parade of new shots. This is both good and bad. In the old days the collections we would find consisted of 20 or 30 shots so we would scan and identify them as we went along. Pretty soon the collection…
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We delight ourselves in finding oddball stuff for you so here’s another one of those piece’s that leave us scratching our head for answers. It was a copy of an old advertisement touting a Gee-Bee Special that had run at a Muroc Timing Association meet back on June 30, 1935. We started a search by…
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Last week we showed you a picture of Bill Cramer’s hopped-up M.G at an unknown event that we guessed might be Paramount Ranch. A little digging this week showed us that it wasn’t. On Saturday I went to a monthly gathering of auto aficionados hoping to maybe get the story straight. Early ‘50 So-Cal hot-shoe…
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It looks like we’ve survived another Christmas. One tends to overeat and maybe have one too many beverages but we’re not complaining. For me, Christmas was also associated with race cars. Every December 24 as the family, aunts, uncles and assorted other friends, etc gathered at my Grandfathers house for a great feast, us throngs…
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It’s almost impossible to get anywhere these last few days with all the folks clogging the roads on their way to getting goodies to put under a tree. This situation might give us a good excuse to stay home but no, we have to keep digging out old and new stuff to surprise you with. …
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When your facing thousands of scans just waiting to be done the best thing to do is go for a ride and get even more stuff. That shows how stupid we are, but it’s also a good excuse to get off one’s rear and get away from the computer for awhile. One of those rides…
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This week we’re going to take a look at some images that we’ve collected that are not your normal we’ve seen them before stuff. Some are simple scans and others have required quite a bit of work on our part to bring back to life. If we’ve done our job correctly with this week’s eclectic…
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No, we’re not talking about the big city on France but a little one in California. Every Thanksgiving night except during the first half of the ‘40 there has been a race for midget race cars someplace in Southern California. Except for the last couple of years when they moved the event to Perris, one…
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I don’t know how many of you remember the old Tennessee Ernie Ford song “Sixteen Tons” from the mid-‘50’s? If you do, you’ll kinda get the idea of what’s been going on around here for a while. The song was actually penned by Merle Travis back in ‘46 for you history buffs but that’s another…
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I use the above saying as meaning we’ve seen or have some info or a picture on a particular vehicle to go with the close statement. Sometimes all we have to do is type a name into our database and presto we have some info to work from. Other times we can’t put our finger…
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Let’s just say it’s hard to get anything done when you’re never at home. A quick recap goes something like this. Monday was clean up the piles of junk that somehow collects on one’s desk. That involved going through every yellow sticky that somehow never gets thrown away to make sure you’re not tossing something…
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After a lengthy search, we finally found some results from the Hot Rod Reunion so we could identify some of the players. It’s really easy to just walk around and shoot pictures but when we get home and start going through the images we always kick ourselves for not getting more info on our subjects. …
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This last year we’ve gotten literally thousands of new shots thanks to our friends at large and who visit the site regularly. We continue to say “Thank You” in making our task of documenting hot rod history a little easier. A task we talk about from time to time is trying to figure out who…
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This has been a bad year weather-wise for the land speed racing community. Bonneville gave us slush due to too much rain and this weekend’s El Mirage meet was scrubbed due to, you guessed it, rain. That left us with a big problem as to what to do on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Never fear,…
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No sooner than we finish one story the next one starts. Early in the week we drug out a couple hundred 8’ x 10” black and white shots and started the sorting process. We merged together three boxes and started with a guesstimate of the date shot and put duplicate shots together. After this hard…
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Early in the week, we continued to plow through old 35 mm slide saying to ourselves don’t get bored yet when there are hundreds more waiting behind the one you’ve just scanned. More than that the rumpus-selection gets a little sore so that’s a good excuse to go out and find some more goodies so…
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Let’s start with scanning around 160 new images for you. The first group of 100 or so are the slides we ended up sorting the last week or two and date from ‘76 and ‘77. The one thing they all have in common is a nasty color shift to red. It seems our shooter was…
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We didn’t get a lot done around here this last week. After going through a few hundred shots from New Hampshire we converted 50 or so into tifs for use on the site. Our friend Gary Sutliff had lent us a dozen boxes full of slides amounting to about 600 slides that were all mixed…
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Around here we normally play it a little loose on the places we have to be as we never know what can’t miss event we find out about with just enough time to get there pops up. Then again sometimes we’re lucky enough to have a little lead time to get our ducks in a…
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Last weekend I stopped by two of my favorite bookstores, Fred Chaparro’s shop who specializes in out of print hard to find automotive literature and Autobooks-Aerobooks that deals with the new stuff. Every time I enter one of them my pocket book seem to empty fast. At Fred’s place we usually spend hours talking racing…
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From day to day one never knows what interesting thing is going to happen around the AHRF. Let’s take last Monday for example when I received a phone call from Richard Parks asking if I would like to attend the premiere of a new movie the next day. Being the news hound that I am…
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Another hectic week and more food for thought. Went to Jim Lattin’s coming out party for the old Bert Peterson-Noel Black number 120 Class A Modified Roadster that began running in ’64 at Bonneville. Typical of good Bonneville cars, it ran many years and finally retired as a racer in ’91 to become yard art….
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For all of you who grew up in the late ’50’s and early ’60’s the name Lynn Wineland is sure to ring a bell. Lynn was the editor of that little car magazine you use to take to school tucked inside your history book and read in class. Yep, Rod & Custom warped many of…
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Old time rodders are the best. The stories never end. To that end my bud Julian Doty has to go to the top of the list. Every time we go somewhere I get another story from him and get to fill in more holes. Last week Doty asked me if I would like to go…
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