1950s race day drivers

When drivers were drivers and not walking billboards

The great Syd Mead artwork for the movie Blade Runner (Originally titled "Do androids dream of electric sheep)

Beautiful quote from the end of the movie(Partly written by Rutger Hauer):

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.

A great idea

Proof that women have always put up with the sometimes bullshit ideas of man!

To think that there was a time when the inside of race cars looked this beautiful is surreal to me! The modern trend of extreme "form follows function" has rendered the automobile a vessel rather than an expression in my eyes.

Imagine how headstrong women had to be to race in a time when they were still actually expected to cook and clean?

This is a turn of the century track racer. I actually think that bicycles are the best design ever created by man. This one is so beautiful. Would it not be great if Lance Armstrong raced the tour next year on a bike like this just to see where he would place?

Another of the recently found images of one of the very rare B.A.T. concept cars made in the 1950s by ALFA ROMEO. It is mind blowing in retrospect that they raced this car as it is now worth millions! I would be fine with being dead now to have lived in California in the 50s before the hippies & government ruined it.

Being a design fanatic, I already know that nothing is new under the sun. But, if you did not know that the "Apple aesthetic" had been done before, here's your education. These were done in the 50s and 60s for BRAUN.

Yes, there was once a sport called auto polo! Proof that the X games concept is nothing new.

Any color but red!

I think only second to "Make a smarter planet" on my list of most annoying sayings is "All Ferraris should be red"

Great tubes dude

They are now remaking the most desirable vintage Vacuum tubes in Russia! I am told that Chinese tubes sound better than these Russian ones though.

These early "Digital" watches appear to be silly until you actually own one. I think they could make a comeback because of all of the extra space to put images. Imagine a template that you could print out your own images and place them under a flip up crystal. This oval shape would automatically index the graphic so that it would not rotate and cover the numbers.

Images of this man driving with one hand made me want to be a man when I was ten or so. I had no idea that it had nothing to do with being a man, he was a super hero. Say hello to Wild Willie Borsche.

Making serious progress on the buggy. Have one month until race day. May get it started tomorrow. Having too much fun!

I could cry!

As time goes on I wish that I could experience a time before the wimping of men and the obsession with safety. Yes, some people died but at least their kids never had to see photos of their dad in Bozo safety clothes with idiotic sponsorship logos and high tech headgear contraptions. These images are from the 1950s in California. When California was worth "California dreamin" about!