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Started by CobraJoe, 2018-06-05 19:29

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rmk57

#1095
2019-01-16 22:36 Last Edit: 2019-01-16 22:38 by rmk57
Quote from: hemidave on 2019-01-16 12:46
WOW

Looks like AJ foyt ? Not sure he had anything to do with drag racing though.
Randy

1957 Ford Custom
1970 Boss 429

hemidave

#1096
2019-01-16 22:56
Tuning
'32 Ford roadster/49 Merc flathead, '39 Ford conv, '54 Ford sedan,  '56 Sunliner AC PW, '57 "F" Sunliner, '66 Fairlane 390 4spd conv, '76 F150 390 C6 plow truck.

CobraJoe

#1097
2019-01-17 05:06
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

hemidave

#1098
2019-01-17 10:10
Riverside Speedway  Agawam, MA
'32 Ford roadster/49 Merc flathead, '39 Ford conv, '54 Ford sedan,  '56 Sunliner AC PW, '57 "F" Sunliner, '66 Fairlane 390 4spd conv, '76 F150 390 C6 plow truck.

Ecode70D

#1099
2019-01-17 11:46
.   All I can say is you guys manage to  come up with some real cool pictures of cars and the old days.  It is so sad to see that the old days with drive in restaurants and hot rods are long gone. Thank you very much and keep the old pictures coming.

CobraJoe

#1100
2019-01-17 13:52
Jay, not all Fords, but some really cool pictures of an automated Drive-In-Los-Angeles-1950s






When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

CobraJoe

#1101
2019-01-17 13:52 Last Edit: 2019-01-17 13:57 by CobraJoe



The Track Drive In

What could go wrong? One of the most intriguing L.A. architectural novelties we've ever seen was this take on the drive-in. It's The Track, with "Motormat" technology, "Track" apparently a reference to racetrack, hence the striped service trolleys that were sent out to cars at 120 feet per minute, each unit named after a famous racehorse. A theme, however, was not enough in the face of Rube Goldberg technology. You just know the crazy trolley system must have hit snags constantly, with burgers and fries and chicken wings and cokes flying all over the hoods of Hudsons and DeSotos...and yet at one time there seems to have been as many as three outlets in the Los Angeles area, for however long they lasted. Here's a description of the operation from The American Drive-In, by Michael Karl Witzel:

"Debuted in 1949, a Los Angeles innovation promised total elimination of carhops. At a new drive-in called "The Track," it attracted customers from as far as Santa Monica with its unique type of service. Like a group of horses at a trough [there's a gracious image], cars ringed around a central building, forming a circular pattern. Twenty semicircular parking spaces bridged a center kitchen by means of metal tracks. Food and condiments rode the rails within carrying...compartment, each powered by a small horsepower motor. The mechanical setup was reminiscent of the wackiest Rube Goldberg device. Positioned in a pre-determined parking space, the diner rolled down the car window and was greeted by a stainless-steel bin that could be made flush with the door. Inside the box were plastic cups, a water bottle, menu, order pad, and change tray. It was large, too. Food for six people could be ferried back and forth on the elevated platforms. Patrons would jot down their orders and with the push of a button, the unit scooted a return to the kitchen.... When the empty bin arrived at the kitchen, an attendant put through the order and added up the bill. As hamburgers and other entries were prepared, the rail box made its second journey to the automobile to collect the money. By the time it returned to the preparation area, the food was ready to go and loaded into the compartment along with condiments and the customer's change. According to inventor Kenneth C. Purdy, the spoke-and-wheel-track arrangement sped service 20-25 percent."

Well, needless to say, we wanted to know where this madcap drive-in was. There was a 1951 phone-book listing for a "The Track No 3" at 3816 Sepulveda Boulevard in Culver City, now the site of a Carl Jr's, but current visual cues there don't jive with the vintage shots seen here. So we squinted at the pics, especially the one at top, and decided that the sign on the Herman-Something real estate office must have said "Herman Shrager" who, it turns out, dealt in cemetery real estate, as in plots. Anyway, after more digging we found that Herman had an office at 8152 Beverly Boulevard...and eureka! It all fell into place. Across from Herman's one-time haunt, at the northwest corner of Beverly and Kilkea Drive, the distinctive Welch's Candy building still stands...and so across Kilkea from Welch's would have been The Track, at 8123 Beverly. The mini-chain's other locations may have survived longer, but with maintenance obviously a nightmare and profits hindered with what was clearly too much real estate given over to servicing too few cars, it was all over in a few years. Advertisements for an auction of the pieces of The Track appeared in the Times in February 1952.
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

CobraJoe

#1102
2019-01-17 13:55





The view from the kitchen, above. Below:
Assuming that the contraption made it out to his car,
the driver received his order in this box.



As seen in the Los Angeles Times on February 17, 1952

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

hemidave

#1103
2019-01-18 08:15
Great pics CobraJoe  ^^^
'32 Ford roadster/49 Merc flathead, '39 Ford conv, '54 Ford sedan,  '56 Sunliner AC PW, '57 "F" Sunliner, '66 Fairlane 390 4spd conv, '76 F150 390 C6 plow truck.

CobraJoe

#1104
2019-01-18 14:43
^^Thanks.



When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

CobraJoe

#1105
2019-01-18 14:43
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

hemidave

#1106
2019-01-18 22:54 Last Edit: 2019-01-18 22:55 by hemidave
"Black Magic" at Lebanon Valley Dragway
'32 Ford roadster/49 Merc flathead, '39 Ford conv, '54 Ford sedan,  '56 Sunliner AC PW, '57 "F" Sunliner, '66 Fairlane 390 4spd conv, '76 F150 390 C6 plow truck.

CobraJoe

#1107
2019-01-19 07:13
Fonty Flock's 1939 Al Dykes's Ford lies in palmetto bushes after tumbling off the course during the Rayson Memorial race in 1948

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

hemidave

#1108
2019-01-19 10:38
WILD CHILD
'32 Ford roadster/49 Merc flathead, '39 Ford conv, '54 Ford sedan,  '56 Sunliner AC PW, '57 "F" Sunliner, '66 Fairlane 390 4spd conv, '76 F150 390 C6 plow truck.

CobraJoe

#1109
2019-01-19 17:12
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,
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