Eye-catching black and whites

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1963 Firecracker 400 at Daytona.

 

#22 is Fireball Roberts in the Young Ford Galaxie. He is going to win the event.

#3 is Junior Johnson in his own Holly Farms Poultry sponsored Chevrolet Impala, attacking him in the #0 Holman & Moodie Galaxie is Dan Gurney.

Note how Junior's front wings and bonnet are sloped for improved aerodynamics.

This sort of inventive panel attachment led to NASCAR introducing the infamous templates in 1966.

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Fireball Roberts collecting the silverware after the event.

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Bill Stroppe and his gang in 1963.

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Atlanta 500, 1964. This is Fred Lorenzen in a Holman & Moody Galaxie.

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Fred Lorenzen in a Holman & Moody Galaxie trailing Parnelli Jones in a Bill Stroppe Mercury at the 1964 Daytona 500.

Although technically related, the Mercurys had a slight aerodynamic advantage over the Fords in 1963 and 1964.

This prompted Ford to do wind tunnel tests during the design of their 1965 models.

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Jim Clark in a fruity little foreign car, Indianapolis, 1965.

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1969 Riverside 500, one of the few venues were stock cars had to do right turns as well.

This is Lee Roy Yarbrough (not to be confused with Cale Yarborough) in a Junior Johnson Mercury Cyclone, followed by Parnelli Jones in his own Ford Torino.

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David Pearson in his office, 1970.

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Jim Clark, Indianapolis, 1964.

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Same day, late afternoon. The chap with the microphone built cars in his garden shed in England.

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Jim Clark and Jackie Steward at the 1964 Indy.

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Gas Rhonda in the Mickey Thompson Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt has a holeshot over John Comstock in the Milne Brothers Plymouth Belvedere.

Pomona, 1964.

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Gas Rhonda with his Mustang, 1966. Location unknown.

I like how his surname is misspelled on the grille blanking plate.

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Gas Rhonda and Len Richter, both in Thunderbolts, staging at the 1964 Winternationals.

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Bob Holbert in a Cobra Daytona Coupe passes Jef Stevens in the Ed Wilson Cobra, Daytona 2,000 Kilometres, 1964.

Both cars didn't make it to the finish line. The Daytona Coupe puked its differential, then famously went on fire, the Wilson Cobra developed a fuel leak.

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Henry Ford MKII and one of the mighty Ford MKIVs at Le Mans, 1967.

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A race was had.

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And won by Dan Gurney.

 

To this day, this was the only time of EVAH, when a 100% American entry won the Le Mans 24h.

The customary hat donnage etc etc applies.

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One of the infamous J-cars being tested at Le Mans, Spring 1966. I recognize Carrol Shelby, but who are the other chaps?

During the same testing session, Walt Hansgen was killed in a GT40 MKII. Despite that, Ford management decided to suspend the J-car project for the season

and concentrate on the proven GT40. The rest, as they say, is history.

 

In August 1966, Shelby American resumed testing and developing the J-car, with Ken Miles doing most of the driving.

After most of a day of testing at Riverside International Raceway, Miles approached the end of the track's 1-mile downhill back straight flat out (200+ mph),

when the car suddenly looped, flipped, crashed and caught fire. The car disintegrated and ejected Miles, killing him instantly.

The entire project was shelved immediately in favour of the GT MKIV, which didn't employ the Kammback technology the J-car was supposed to do.

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Carrol Shelby and a few Ford spares.

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"Barris Kustoms, how can I help?"

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great pics & there seems to be some style/panache to these events lacking in todays motorsport wouldn't you say??

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The 1961 USAC Stock Car Champion Paul Goldsmith [l] and 1961 NASCAR Champion Joe Weatherly [r]

are shown during a promotional tour for the record-setting Ray Nichels Pontiac Team.

Shown in the middle is a teenage Linda Vaughn, Miss Pontiac at the time.

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Paul Goldsmith in his battered #1 Nichels Pontiac Catalina nudges his way past Milt "Uncle Milty" Curcio's Ford

to win a USAC event at Milwaukee, in 1962.

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Him and Ray Nichels accepting the trophy.

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Joe Weatherly, Cotton Owens and Glenn 'Fireball' Roberts during tests for Ray Nichels Pontiac, in 1961.

 

Weatherly and Roberts were both claimed by the sport in 1964, while Owens went on to become a team owner and died of old age in 2012.

He was the first man to prepare a car that could do a 200mph+ lap at a NASCAR sanctioned event, at Talladega in 1970.

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