3 Day Wonder

Posted: March 2, 2009 
Filed under: 1958
Tagged: Santa Maria
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This is the first race the car ever participated in. Spring of 1958 in Santa Maria.  We called it the 3-day wonder as a bunch of us put it together the weekend before from a pile of parts I had in my garage. I had a 400″ Olds with 6 Stromberg 97’s with a Caddie LaSalle  trans, saved from my 49 Ford coupe, and a Columbia two speed rear end. A 28 Chevy body and a 34 Ford chassis. Raced against a altered roadster from Santa Barbara with, I think, a supercharged GMC 6 cylinder. I  actually won the race at around 112 and in the high 11’s or low 12’s. That was a frightening ride. Worse than when it went 155 at Lions.

Check out all the cool old cars in the parking area and the girls with the skirts. Those were the days. BTW, no tattoos on the girls.  A pack of cigarettes rolled up in your tee shirt sleeve. Gas was 20 cents a gallon.

These photos taken by Bud Hammer, Oxnard