vintage race photos - too cool to not share

[TiMopar]

Great pictures, thanks for posting!

[tan top]

Is that you posing on the cars Steve??? Very cool pics!!! That #71!!      

Yeah. That's my 14 year old self sitting on the quarters. Needless to say those cars left a permanent mark on my brain. These pics should get you fired up about your #71 Nascar tribute project. No?

  more awesome pictures !!    thanks for sharing them 

[odcics2]

Brooks at the Daytona 500 - 1971

[Aero426]

Bobby Isaac signing autographs at North Wilkesboro, April 1970.

[Aero426]

Bobby in front of the K & K hauler.

[Aero426]

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[Aero426]

Richard's winning car, loaded up after Wilkesboro, 4/18/70.    Look how the fender decals and NASCAR door decal have been peeled off the car.  

This car would meet its demise three weeks later at Darlington.

[Stevearino]

Just imagine all of the pictures sitting in boxes and at the bottom of drawers long forgotten. I am sure there is tons of gold sitting out there in private hands.

[Aero426]

Just imagine all of the pictures sitting in boxes and at the bottom of drawers long forgotten. I am sure there is tons of gold sitting out there in private hands.

That is the truth.  

It is great to get to the stuff before someone passes away and it gets thrown out. 

[odcics2]

You mean like this one?

[Stevearino]

Richard's winning car, loaded up after Wilkesboro, 4/18/70.    Look how the fender decals and NASCAR door decal have been peeled off the car.  

Here is proof that I was one of the culprit souvenir hunters pealing decals off cars. This is a picture of half of the windshield out of Jabe Thomas's 69 Road Runner with lots of contingency stickers on it and some white letters and numbers off of a Petty Superbird.     No I don't still have it. It went into the trash 40 years ago

[Stevearino]

You mean like this one?

Yes. I do.

[odcics2]

You mean like this one?

Yes. I do.

You like the snappy caption?   

[Stevearino]

You mean like this one?

Yes. I do.

You like the snappy caption?   

Absolutely. 

[tan top]

   awesome pictures Guys , thanks for sharing 

[chargerman69]

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[Aero426]

That's cool!

[Stevearino]

That's cool!

What is cool is that the internet has made it possible to link up a small group of like minded people to share what would otherwise be just obscure memories.

[odcics2]

That's cool!

What is cool is that the internet has made it possible to link up a small group of like minded people to share what would otherwise be just obscure memories.

Agreed!  The IR POWER TOOLS sticker is gold - took me some time to find it NOS.   

[Mike DC]

    
It's weird seeing candid pics of Bobby Issac.  He is well known in Mopar circles but he's more of a name on a car than a face.  He disappeared off the racing scene and died so young.

[mpdlawdog]

Thanks for sharing these....very cool

[Stevearino]

A few more taken at Trenton in 1970.

[held1823]

i feel like i need an after-sex  cigarette...

and i don't even smoke

[Aero426]

An angle you rarely see.   Note how the hood is raised up ever so slightly at the cowl. 

[held1823]

are you saying the petty body man was a little slack with the hood alignment?

surely they weren't taking advantage of the fresh air that might accumulate in that area...