CALLING ALL HISTORIANS.............

You guys mostly know me as a grumpy old devils advocate who has MG knowledge. Some of you also know my main interest is automotive history and book collecting. I have a large automotive history book collection of over 1500 volumes. Books that I have collected since high school nearly 50 years ago. Some are valuable but quite well known: The Grand Prix Car-Vol 1&2 by Pomeroy is worth $500 (cost $25 mail order from the back of Road & Track in the late 50s). Others are much more rare, but have little value. Anyway.....I have been collecting old photos of historic speed and racing locations. I intend to do a history of these locations complete with "then and now" pictures. Mostly these are from the Southern California area....but I need them from all over the country.

Anybody help with old photos? How about Honest Charlies Speed Shop in Chattanooga TN?

I'm going to keep bumping this up...so don't get mad at me.

Bump on, I love History. So, the history is gonna be a book?

Sounds great, Lloyd, can't wait to read it.

Thank goodness for people like you who keep track of all the stuff that would otherwise be forgotten!

Those will be an enjoyable post Lloyd!

right....a book...sorta like "The Gearhead's Guide to American History"

I'm a Harry Miller fan....a TRUE genius....love to trace his footsteps around the LA area in the first 30 years of the 20th century. Everytime I look at an old photograph, I wonder what it was like back then....and what its like now. I can even look at a photo of me, in a newly purchased '66 E-type roadster.....taken in front of Vilem B.Haan in 1970. Anybody who read Road & Track back then will remember the full page color ads he ran for sports car acc. No, I have never been back to that location since...40 years later...but easy to do. Wonder what's there now? Just thought it might be fun to get this all down before it isn't so easy. Some things are already too late....Miller, Offenhauser, Shelby, BRE, All American Racers.....good friend Bill Devin, now gone....but what a story he was.

come on guys....look in those old shoe boxes for vintage pictures...........

Appreciate youre doing it..
I have a book (large format lots of photos and race data) title is
"the golden age of the american racing car " ,,with lot of info on Miller/designs.

Lloyd.

Lovely.

My wife works for the Lake Casitas Water Department near Ojai, California.

She ran across some photos taken of a hill climb there during the 50s. I'll see if I can access them. It was an interesting collection of vehicles at a very unique venue.

Kelvin.

Kelvin....that would be great...Cal Club did a famous one up there also (over off the grapevine.)

EDIT: high res scan and email?