[Fot] [TR] Race Pic from the fifties!!

[Frank Fisher]

thank you Budthose are so cool.my first memories of car racing came a little later in life. i was probably about 14/15. was in southport england enjoying the beach when i heard lots of car noise.the RAC rally was running through town.i can still see the mark 1 cortina coming around the roundabout with one front wheel up in the air.i was hooked.first car when i got my licence? a mark 1 cortina to which i immediately added rally lights and stripes. had no money for immediate engine upgrades. what would i like to get my hands on today? a mark 1 cortina.
then i went looking for more race events. dad had to drive. we found dirt track racing in Kirby, just outside Liverpool. your pictures remind me of that short track.thanksFrank

 

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Thought I’d share some fun pictures from the fifties that surfaced while looking for something else, of course.
I was exposed to the excitement of racing at an early age. When I was seven we took our one and only (we were poor farm folk) family vacation to Yellowstone NP (see my bear t-shirt) and stopped in Powell WY to see my cousins (the old guys) and they ran a gas station/garage. They raced these jalopies at the local fair grounds every Friday night.
I’m the little guy squinting between the two cars.
This was back when you took the pictures in the summer time and didn’t get them developed until October. And probably only when my Mom sold some eggs and cream and could afford it.
Bud Rolofson
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