Some More Nice Oldies Pix

More snapshots from vintage car races, car shows, and museums.

1956 Austin Healey 100.  The folding windshield on these cars charmed me back-in-the-day, and still does.  I was told this car has been in the same family since new.  Yes, it's restored, not a "survivor" or "preservation"classs car.

I've always had a "thing" for the Jag XK-150 convertible.  It was bigger, heavier, and slower than the XK-120 and XK-140, and thus never a factor in sports car racing.  By the mid-1950's, Jaguar was doing very well, thankyou, selling luxury sedans in the States.  And the Corvette and the Thunderbird were available.  So this model was always a bit of a step-child.  But the curved windshield and surface development of the body make this car look "more right" to me than the XK-120.  This one has the old California "yellow plate."  I hope it had some memorable times on Sunset Boulevard,  its natural habitat.

Cockpit of the 1939 and 1940 Indianapolis 500-wining Maserati 8CTF. 

Well... Pilote is a pushover for 1950's-1970's Alfa engines, especially if they have big Webers hanging off them.  This is the engine bay of a locally successful GTV club racer.

And he's especially a pushover if an Alfa has a bundle-of-snakes exhaust system that delivers that ripping-canvass sound.