You may remember my post about my buddy Ron’s collection of Miller, Offy and Novi patterns rescued from a foundry in Berkeley, Ca. After shooting those pictures in his garage, we went in his house where I proceeded to photograph many of his race program covers from Oakland. He then handed me a large binder [...]

I was thumbing through “The Complete Book of Hot Rodding”, a Petersen book from 1959 which covered everything from engine functions to tire tech. In the chapter titled “Building Your Own Hot Rod”, I came across this super clean rear-engined drag car. I was taken in by how well it was designed and built, and [...]

I have very little info to go on besides these great pictures, but Grohs Texaco in Rivera, California ( before ‘Pico’ and ‘Rivera’ became one city in 1958) sponsored a few very nice drag cars. The first shot is of Grohs 32 5 window coupe photographed (by Norm Grudem) around 1953. It featured big n’ [...]