Thread: For Don Shilady

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34-40 and others,
You guys are great! It may be hard to find other speedster photos but thanks for trying. I am going to repost the picture of the red 1910 T Speedster here to add more interest. The yellow speedster above shows the style of the windshield much better but the red T speedster also had that type of windscreen although it is not clear in my photo. Now we know why drivers of that era wore goggles! I can add a new photo of two touring cars from the same pre-1915 meet and you can appreciate the comparison to the speedsters of the day. I did chat with an owner of a 1912 REO touring and he said he could barely get the 7-foot-tall car into his garage. Now you might have a better appreciation for the need to chop tops! Anyway I am looking forward to more funny car pictures as well, if they show the engine! The best we can do here is lots of local publicity for Danica this weekend for the last NASCAR race of the season before the Chase. Denny Hamlin is a very local driver, can he do it three times in a row? Hey Joe Gibbs did win three Superbowls! There should be some local publicity for the RIR event and believe me traffic really changes when there is a race at RIR and it is noticeable to us because I live only a mile or two from the track. I don't really want to limit the theme of this thread but pictures of older racers/rods are certainly welcome. I also like fenderless '29 roadsters but my wife says my car has to look like a real Model-A (with a 5" dropped axle?) so I guess we should invite any and all "Resto-Rods"

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

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