The more carbs, the better it looks

If there were bonus points for rare applications never seen before, this guy would beat all the competition. I think this long ram carb setup is from a Max Wedge 413, the only thing I've seen of this design. But putting it on a rod, and letting it all hang out? Now that's cool, unlike the factory's keeping stuff out of sight under a hood where I never get to see the cool stuff.

I just went through the Grand National Roadster Show, it's great! It's a lot like a Good Guys show crossed with SEMA

A few cars you don't want to miss;
the '36 Auburn of James Hetfield, the Moonliner and Mooneyes Dragster, the triple nickel 555, Boyd's French Connection, Mr Norm's Demon (old and new) plus the 3 other new Mr Norms retro vehicles, Poteets Miller hauler Special, Hollywood Hot Rods Platinum Bomb and I think 2 other HHR cars, the 1910 Selden ( winner of the 1998 Great American Race, the 1920 Packard Indy car (winner of the 1991 Great American Race) a Reventlow Scarab, the Bartoletti Grand Prix race car transporter, the Glass Slipper, 3 Bean Bandit race cars, El Cid.. the dragster AC Cobra, the Atomic Punk bubble top Roth tribute, and others that I can't recall right now.

Lots of pinstripers, about a dozen, lots of artists with paintings and sculptures to sell, about 3 dozen... so bring money. Prices on the vendor stuff like beer, popcorn and kettle corn, soft serve etc is overpriced like a county fair, like that's not unexpected at anything we go to anymore. I'll happily leave a venue instead of wasting money a minute away from real prices.

This is a shot fromt he Bldg 3 hall of magazine cover cars, in this collection are the Pete and Jake 4 roadsters, the Kookie T replica of Norm Grabowski 's, the Mullen Roadster, and about 2 dozen more
You will want to park in the Red (far right area) off McKinley Ave... it's cheaper than the $25 I paid for the Preferred Parking (I was fed up with trying to find the place and running late)

To get there from South of LA or East of Pomona, I used the 15 North to the 1o West, get off at the Fairplex exit, head north from the 10 for about a mile, it stops at a light on the intersection with McKinley, head East (right) for about 3 miles or so, past many numbered gates

back to 1948 and El Mirage! I'm excited as hell to find and post more color photos of 1948 El Mirage of the same car and place, based on the below

Above is the new one and is the same setting as the bottom one that I found at http://speedseekers.blogspot.com/ and is 1947 El Mirage

Above is the new one and is the same setting as the bottom one that I found at http://www.scta-bni.org/EM_1948_photos.htm

Same car, different outfits, so it's probably not at the same meet (time) the below was found
at http://www.scta-bni.org/EM_1948_photos.htm and I posted it

I posted both of the bottom photos 2 months ago, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-lake-in-48-oh-wonder-and-amazement.html but just found the top photos at http://5window.tumblr.com/

Bizarre variety of photos from 5window tumbler, a lot of cool stuff though

For another shot of this Cobra, and a write up, see http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/bit-player.html

more at http://5window.tumblr.com/

Letters from GI's in Korea, 1952-1953 to Hot Rod Magazine. A different war, a different breed. No cell phones or internet, just shared magazines

the above is from Lt Dierks... the below is from a GI in response to it

Click on all of the above to get the full "easy to read size"

I hope all those guys made it home, and that you get an understanding of how the Korean War vets were hungry for Hot Rod magazines, and how they spent some free time thinking about the cars they had to leave behind when they were drafted into a war, that today some of us only know of as the setting of the tv show MASH.

I hope you immediately think about the military stuck in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan... and do something to make their time in the sand pit easier to bear.

El Mirage pit area and sidelines, lots to see and appreciate

This is a Berkeley... I've never heard of it.

For all the posts about El Mirage, click on "http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/El%20Mirage"