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Drawing for the race pool just hours before the start of the Indy 500.
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Author Archives: Tom Harold
Say what?
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All-American boy
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Carb day prep
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Good times are imminent, and this is how we get ready for them. Tomorrow is a day of speed and sun!
Better traffic
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So I’m snoozing my way into work on yet another Wednesday morning, and suddenly this automobile shoots by me in the left lane. It was so sudden I didn’t even get the settings changed on the camera before I started shooting one-handed. It was the Wednesday before the Indy 500, and I knew exactly what was going on immediately. It is on this day every year that the track has a “drive around the Brickyard” day where you get to drive your own automobile out onto the track. My dad’s Model T club has been attending this event for several years now. I knew this had to be one of the guys from the club. He happened to stay on my route for another couple of miles, but at the first intersection where he pulled into the left turn lane to head south, we happened to hit a red light. I jumped out of my car and ran up and said hello to him. Man, what a cool way to start the morning.
As an aside, I just KNOW this guy was running a Model A crank in that thing! He was hitting 35mph with no problems! Model Ts just never could turn that high with the factory non-counterweighted crank. This thing was a rocket!
Traffic
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This one was a total throwaway. I did it for the heck of it in the morning, and when I lay down for bed realized I’d never paused to take another photo the rest of the day.
Caprice
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I noticed this Chevrolet sitting in a parking lot across from my office as I was leaving work. I’ve never seen it before. It looked kind of interesting with an outsized set of tires at all four corners (excuse me, my car-geek is showing) and its tinted windows. I took a while to set up the shot (camera s
Teardown
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I know that I blogged a while back about the clutch being the solution to all problems Chevelle-related. This is the Chevelle’s engine. On an engine stand. Not in the car. Being disassembled by my brother. One would be lead to believe that, perhaps, the clutch was not the only issue with the Chevelle. One would be right about that.
Natural sun catchers
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Bugged around town
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I see this one occasionally on my way home from work, but not on the way to. I love the old mags on this thing, reminds me of high school back when those wheels showed up on just about every other vehicle on the road. I’m not a huge bug fan, but if I were picking one out, it would probably look a lot like this.