Eye-catching black and whites

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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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Try to top this in sheer 80stasticness.

 

 

Lord Street, Liverpool.

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

 

 

 

Jim Clark and Jackie Steward at the 1964 Indy.

 

Jim Clark, Indianapolis, 1964.

 

Sorry to be a pedantic arse: these are shots from 1965, the winning and thge Firestone badge on the overalls gives it away.

In 1964, they used Dunlop tyres and this happened:

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New York City 1938

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Fremont St  Las Vegas 1942

 

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1951 speed testing!

 

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The R-100 Streamline car with its designer Sir Denniston Burney, 1931.

 

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R to L Wolfgang von Trips, Jo Bonnier, Graham Hill, Tony Brooks, Stirling Moss and Bruce McLaren.

The wee lad getting his first driving lesson from the assembled Formula 1 elite, is none other than Damon Hill.

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Papa Hill with his children, Brigitte and Damon.

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Doreen Evans at Brooklands, July 1935.

It's safe to say that it wasn't lemonade what was in that tumbler.

 

She was the youngest child in a motor-racing family whose business, the Bellevue Garage in Wandsworth, was a leading MG agency. With her brothers Dennis and Kenneth she competed in MGs in the Bellevue team, and at Le Mans in Captain Eyston’s ‘Dancing Daughters’ team.

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Kay Petre at Brooklands in May 1930. She was only 4'10" tall, hence her wrestling partner of choice was a 10.5 litre V12 Delage.

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Kitty Brunell tuning her 1932 AC Ace. She used Brooklands only for testing and tuning and only drove competitively in rallys.

She won the 1933 RAC.

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Doreen Evans taking over during a relay race at Brooklands, July 1935.

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Mrs Aclace signals from the pits during the JCC 200 mile race at Brooklands, August 1938.

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Irish 'Flying Fay' Taylour at Brooklands in 1930. She was a champion speedway rider before switching to race cars.

She was interned as a fascist during the Second World War because she was said to have had an affair with Oswald Mosley.