Vintage Race Cars

I took my AIT at Fort Ord back in 1969. During our weeklong bivouac it got so cold that my canteen froze one nite, Then it turned to a cold rain, I snuck over the hill and discovered that we were right next to Laguna Seca. I purloined one of their straw bales and carried it back over the hill. I lined my foxhole with it and covered it with a makeshift tent using my poncho. I slept warm and comfy that nite, while everyone else was wet and miserable.

 

Weren't their skins also waterproof?

 

Both leading vehicles are flatheads outrunning OHVs, the older Lincoln even first place

 

Well, I don't see the chequered flag in the picture........

 

It wouldn't have mattered anyway, because the newer one got disqualified

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/on-this-day-nascars-first-strictly-stock-race-took-place-in-1949

 

What a great photo.