Tuesday, August 5, 2008



Take a look at the bricks and blocks holding the truck up... they are leaning over badly. Not good.




1956 Studebaker Sky Hawk
1969 Mustang Mach 1










It might be funny to say that the truck was speeding so fast they bent the needle when it hit the peg, but it sure is a striking photo that seems to infer time passing since the last time this truck was a daily worker earning it's way in the world.
"Lead Dray Transfer 50" I don't know what that is about more than the actual definition of the words. However, the woman who brought the truck West from it's origin of the South Dakota Black Hills told me that it used to belong to the guy who delivered coal to her, and when she was married, the guy and his wife stood at her wedding. I infer that the newlyweds bought the coal truck sometime after the wedding, and used it to move their household goods to their new home in California
That milk crate was left in place after it's last use as a makeshift seat.. funny, but I've heard of several people using a milk crate that way.






Monday, August 4, 2008

No reversing the progress thats been made. The rest of us don't want to drive through horse manure, and lose traction, slide, and wreck our regular cars.



This truck was a fire truck in it's first life, so I'm thinking this is the panel that was needed to patch over all the fire truck stuff.
The signatures both in the hauler, and in the Boss, are the equivalent of blessings from the legends that so inspired Les that he went to beat the challenge of recreating the look, sound, feel, and results of the car and hauler he liked the most.









This photo is true to the horizon, it's the tach that is turned. Easier to glance and see what is going on than to read the numbers, so lot's of racers have arranged their gauges so the desired top speed or RPM is at the top, bottom, or sides.

Real signatures

























My excitement might seem a bit much for most people, but lots of car guys don't seem to mind, and Les has been really cool about letting me drool over his car and hauler many times. Thanks Les!
Also, Tere (my girlfriend) is a great match in my enthusiasm for cars, of all kinds, and is a damn good photographer too! She took the hauler photos, and the underside of the Boss. I took the interior and engine bay shots. (she took some really cool shots of the underside, from a photographic technical and artistic viewpoint)

Saturday, August 2, 2008

The 1969 Boss 302 was purchased in 1969 from Von Wil Ford in Wharton, Texas by an amateur racer who raced the car three times before he passed away a few months later. His widow left the car just as it sat untouched with 169 miles on the clock in a locked garage for the past 38 years.



Fiat 500
Looks like a Franklin

1959 German GP Avus. Hans Herrmann crash

 

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