Thread: I NEED: Vintage photos of women and roadsters

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Thems some nice ones Viking, friends of yours????

Maybe i am misunderstanding the title of your topic, do you mean women 'with' roadsters?
If not, and you are looking for vintage style Hot rods then have a look at this time warp happening in Germany (also with links to the A'bombers meeting in Sweden).

www.hotheadseast.com

The burnout picture is in England, so is the picture of the two roadsters at the Hot Rod Drags, Shakespeare County Raceway. Not that long ago actually, there is quite a scene here for ol'timey hot rods.

Some great shots Mel, thanks a bunch for the link. Looks like that is one way kewl get together!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Thems some nice ones Viking, friends of yours????

Pit Crew

Well here's 3 in a 23'

Faith, here is some scans that I came up with.

The first is athe July '55 cover of Hot Rod that has bart and Helen Root and family with their 29 roadster. Helen was well known at the socal drag strips.

The next scan is an article from the "Hot Rod Handbook" from about 1950 or so. (sorry no date given anywhere)
These two girls not only raced their roadsters but tuned them as well.

I have alot more magazines and as I get time I will try to get more stuff for you.

Mick

Mick you are amazing! OK Bob start building that period perfect roadster! What a great "family" story, wife (mother) driver, THE BEST ROADSTER (IMHO) and now we know what mid-50s period roadsters really looked like. I really liked the early shock mounts but I had forgotten the smoothed cowl. Today you might think it was a 'glass car because there was no gas cap on the cowl, but with the '34 dash the original A tank was removed. Frankly that is a real "time machine" picture for me because the condition of the magazine cover is excellent just like I bought it last week. Yes there were girls like that, but not too many. In my Class of '55 one girl had a sleeper '48 Ford Tudor with a stroker Merc flathead in it, but it looked like any other Tudor, sitting still!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Well now, that would be a real challenge....................hunt down some of those gals mentioned in the article and see how long their interest in hot rods lasted. Good chance they're still alive probably in their mid to late 70's now. Have a gathering at Pomona in January...................very cool idea!

Originally Posted by cffisher

The burn out photo looks like a Cal. plate. The lettering on the sign is right Why the steering wheel on the right side??????
Maybe an early mail delivery

Bob why don't you offer her a Jack

No, that's a UK roadster. I collected quite a few cool photos of chicks driving and racing their roadsters there... Looks like they have a good scene!

Originally Posted by lurker mick

Faith, here is some scans that I came up with.

The first is athe July '55 cover of Hot Rod that has bart and Helen Root and family with their 29 roadster. Helen was well known at the socal drag strips.

The next scan is an article from the "Hot Rod Handbook" from about 1950 or so. (sorry no date given anywhere)
These two girls not only raced their roadsters but tuned them as well.

I have alot more magazines and as I get time I will try to get more stuff for you.

Mick

Oh my God Mick I have died and gone to heaven!

THIS IS EXACTELY what I am looking for!!! Not only are those two hotrod girls pretty, but they also kicked ass!

Now I am trying to figure out how to get a larger scan of the article, as I was not able to make out all teh words from the scan you posted... If you are able to scan the photos separately, so I can have a good size version of them that would be great, then the text can be scanned as a stand alone, make it as large as possible so it is readable, maybe I can post that article 'as is' in my exhibit. You can email the scans directly to me at sitarfaith@aol.com ... Of course I am assuming you have the time to do this... God I sure hope you do because it would be soooooo useful to my endeavour! Please please please please?

Does the article say the names and location (city/state) of the two girls? So maybe I can try to track them down? The other two women I am honoring (Veda Orr and Helle Nice) both are dead, so unless I could track down a descendant of Veda who can tell me more about her life, I am afraid all I have to go by are the few one liners here and there posted in magazines... The Rod and Custom article regretably did not say much at all about her.

By the way that #61 roadster in that article sure looks a lot like mine... Same shaped headights, upright chopped windshield.... Same "feel"... Maybe an ancestor of Hiboy?

Originally Posted by Mel Chave

Maybe i am misunderstanding the title of your topic, do you mean women 'with' roadsters?
If not, and you are looking for vintage style Hot rods then have a look at this time warp happening in Germany (also with links to the A'bombers meeting in Sweden).

www.hotheadseast.com

The burnout picture is in England, so is the picture of the two roadsters at the Hot Rod Drags, Shakespeare County Raceway. Not that long ago actually, there is quite a scene here for ol'timey hot rods.

hey Mel, I think I am going to move to Germany they sure have cool looking roadsters there... A nice departure from all the modernized Hiboys I see in LA ... I love the photo of the hotrod with the words painted on it:

"Real hotrods don't shine"

I am going to quote this in my video, since it will be displayed in the Suede Building (flat cars only)....

I did find 3 photos of chick racing a black roadster/truck on that website ... And also saw a LOT of beautiful shots of misc roadsters... All useful..

Keep those links coming - I LOVE YOU GUYS!

And to answer your questions, I need both photos of roadster women hotrodders (real ones, not useless pinups posing half nude next to cars ) AND vintage photos of 32 Hiboys doing their thing! Remember it is the DEUCE anniversary and it is the Grand National Roadster show, so I need ROADSTERS and preferably 32 HIboys or looking close to a 32 (1930/31/32/33/34)

I don't know how many girls are in these but plenty of 32s

www.carnut.com/photo/list/flist.html

ENJOY

Faith...I'm geting old so I don't remember if you said you had this link or not. Pretty interesting

http://winfield.50megs.com/Forrest/Women.htm

Pat