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I really enjoyed the Jalopy Races from Hollywood! But, like Bob, I wondered about the date. 1952 just seem a little early. I noticed that one of the drivers had a full coverage hardshell helmet. When did those make an appearance? Even though Culver was a quarter-mile dirt track there wasn’t much dust, the cars weren’t sliding around that much and they were able to hold their lines pretty well. I wonder if the track had been treated — oiled dirt maybe? Looked to me like a few of those cars had slicks on the right side. I liked the starter, too. He had a fun little routine when the drivers were introduced and a nice little leap when started the races. Made a nice show. I truly wish I could have seen the races live . . . and that you still could. Jim Taggart Brookings, SD Date: Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [RH] CJA - California Jalopy Association help wanted (Tom Luce?) Actually, the race at Culver City Speedway took place on Sunday, July 18, 1954, not in 1952. The results: Don Noel, Fred Russell, Termite Snyder in the main event in the film is the same results from the L.A. Times dated July 19, 1954. (Results from Sunday in Monday morning paper. Great film. Extremely clear. Bob Mitchell Simi Valley CA USA -- Jim Taggart Brookings SD USA

Fellow RHers, I've had the pleasure of talking with and enjoying Paul's company at many Bench Racers banquets in the past. A pure gentleman and easy to access. https://racer.com/2024/09/06/paul-goldsmith-1925-2024/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFIjyRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVuni2PhQIaws9X61NsZayP9RozHYzVrNrN94JCgmRGZ2nM09tF2yTcgzA_aem_mzgWcO5K2EK42n5B_METdw Gene Ingram New Castle, In. -- Gene Ingram List Owner New Castle IN USA

Here are two items, each of which is OT. For the first, I recommend that anyone who has a FLO Subscription watch the replays of both the Friday night and Saturday night USAC sprint car races at Lawrenceburg. Apart from the racing, the clever hype and sometimes poetic commentary that announcers can come up with never cease to amaze me. As the cars come around for the feature, you will hear “get ready to rack, stack and shuffle” and “this is what you saved your lunch money for.” You will also hear (and see) Briggs Danner do a “bunny hop” in Turn 1. If you do not have access to FLO, you can watch highlights of the Friday night feature at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK4yTVpArng and the Saturday night feature at https://x.com/USACNation/status/1845343280508326364?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet For the second, many of you will have seen this. It is a treasure: a 51 minute clip from Racing Through Time on the history of Alfa Romeo’s Grand Prix efforts up through 1951, then the Mille Miglia, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvUc8zuqvr4 . This has original footage of Alfa’s great cars and drivers. Enjoy. -- Bill Blaylock Sanbornville NH USA

Check out driver buttons for CJA drivers on ebay: jddoggielover_4 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=California+Jalopy+Assosiations+&_sacat=0&_odkw=cja+buttons&_osacat=0 Carey Davis Prescott, AZ -- Carey Davis, Prescott AZ USA

I looked in the files for Gordon White. He shows a member in good standing. This is the email address on file that messages would be sent to. gewhite@... Gene Ingram New Castle, In. -- Gene Ingram List Owner New Castle IN USA

Here are some Jalopy links I found. The first shows a restored jalopy that is a veteran of CJA and is now part of a family collection. https://www.woodlandautodisplay.com/1932jalopy.shtml#:~:text=Jalopy%20races%20were%20televised%20locally,a%20fairly%20competitive%20race%20car. The second is a Library of Congress reference to a collection of 22 photos from 1954 that were taken at Culver City by a Look magazine photographer (you cannot bring up the photos on the link; have to contact the LOC). https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016720727/ The third is a two minute clip on a jalopy race at Balboa Stadium in San Diego. https://www.facebook.com/keithcorky.mills/videos/1238959032799850?idorvanity=115721818475504 Bill Blaylock -- Bill Blaylock Sanbornville NH USA

This is OFF TOPIC, although, historically, the general topic can probably be traced back to the very first automobile race. Here is an article on an interesting development in Formula One: A fascinating and fruitless effort to get sports figures to quit blurting out the F-word. The problem is that, unlike other sports, in racing the sports figures' exclamations are transmitted in real time over radios. This article explores the efforts by the FIA and others to reel in bad language from the drivers. And it pretty much concludes: Yeah, “$%@!,” good luck. Bill Blaylock The Furious Race to Take the F-Word Out of Formula One BY JOSHUA ROBINSON Singapore IT HAPPENS TO EVERY FORMULA One driver. You’re crammed inside a tiny cockpit, sweating through your fireproof suit, with your foot to the floor at 200 miles per hour, when suddenly something goes wrong with your $10 million machine. Or you get passed. Or you crash. So you drop an F-bomb. The problem is that moment of frustration isn’t confined to the inside of your helmet—anything drivers say is relayed back to their team over a radio. And in an age of wall-to-wall F1 race coverage, those radio communications are frequently broadcast straight to a television audience of tens of millions. Which is why motorsport’s world governing body this week asked drivers to pump the brakes on running their mouths. And on Thursday in Singapore, the world’s best drivers briefly complied—but only to reply politely that they intend to keep on cursing, thank you very much. “What are we, 5-year-olds?” defending world champion Max Verstappen said. “People say a lot of bad things when they’re full of adrenaline in other sports. It just doesn’t get picked up.” Verstappen, whose Dutch directness is famous in F1 circles, has never been one to censor himself. In fact, mere minutes before he was asked about the new recommendation, he had been complaining about the state of his car at this month’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. “As soon as I went to qualify-ing,” Verstappen said, “I knew the car was f—ed.” The debate kicked off when Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the president of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile, said in an interview that he had enough of drivers letting loose over the radio, even though it’s usually bleeped out on the television broadcasts. “We have to differentiate between our sport—motor sport— and rap music,” Ben Sulayem told the Autosport website. “We’re not rappers, you know. They say the Fword how many times per minute? We aren’t on that.” Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton was one BEATA ZAWRZEL/ ZUMA PRESS Nico Hulkenberg and Yuki Tsunoda collided in Turn 1 during the Formula One Italian Grand Prix on Sept. 1. of the few drivers who could see his point about language, especially regarding younger fans of the sport. His issue concerned Ben Sulayem’s comparison to rappers, which Hamilton felt was racially tinged. For the rest of the field, the idea of asking drivers to stop talking like sailors seemed about as absurd as asking them to race without wheels. “For us to control our words when we are driving 300 kilometers per hour between the walls of some street track, it’s tricky,” Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc said. “We are humans after all.” The irony is that these candid moments are precisely what F1’s modern success has been built on. Until Liberty Media acquired Formula One in 2017, most radio communications between drivers and their teams were private. Only through F1’s widespread efforts to pull back the curtain and humanize the 20 men in the cockpits did that begin to change. There were more cameras in garages, a fly-onthe- wall Netflix series, and, of course, more open radio channels. “Here, probably also for entertainment purposes, things get sent out and that’s where people pick up on it,” Verstappen said. “If you don’t broadcast it, no one will know…In general, it seems that people are a bit more sensitive to stuff.” The conversation may continue, but drivers insist that this matter isn’t up for debate. Cutting out cursing simply isn’t an option—especially not since it

Fellow RHers, My friend Guy Smith's father, Edwin, shot this film of USAC Sprint Car racing at the Allentown (PA) Fairgrounds in, I believe, 1965 and 1966. I thought some group members may be interested in seeing it. Between Guy and I, we shot over 2000 racing videos over the past 40+ years, which I am starting to share on my YouTube channel. Unfortunately, this is the only one in our collection which is old enough to fit within the group's guidelines. https://youtu.be/dV45AAcnOsw?si=cAboClF_zs2JjyIK Will White Quakertown, PA -- Will White Quakertown PA USA

Fellow RHers, I'm saddened to pass along a double hit of our friends passing. Phil Rider was a RH member and well known Indy Car photographer. Gene Ingram New Castle, In. -- Gene Ingram List Owner New Castle IN USA

Hello everyone, I have an OT request, I have a Dell laptop that until recently had software known as Adobe Photoshop that was part of Adobe Creative Suite 5.0. Somehow, Photoshop got deleted and I can't find the source DVD. My question is does any have this somewhat older 5.0 Adobe Creative Suite? I got the school education version which is the same as the store bought version. This Adobe software can only be used on 2 active computers so my hope is someone has it and ultimately moved on to a more current version of Photoshop. I can return the DVD and all packaging. Thank you for the consideration. I greatly appreciate it. -- Thomas Luce Manhattan Beach CA USA

Many RH members may have read of this in Indianapolis locally, but here is an article on some cars the museum is putting up for auction, including its prized W196 Streamliner. And you will note my yellow highlighting around a statement that says about 120 cars will remain in the museum's collection. Someone please jump in and correct me here if I am wrong, but I had been under the impression that the museum's collection -- both on the floor and in its fabled basement -- totaled something like 300 cars. I have never seen the W196, but I think I once saw the 1957 Chevrolet Corvette XP64. I am kinda sorry these cars will leave the museum. Anyway, the article is below. Bill Blaylock Sanbornville, NH Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum to Sell a 1954 Mercedes That Could Go for $70 Million By Jim Motavalli Aug. 15, 2024 3:46 pm ET Order Reprints Print Article The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Streamliner could bring $70 million.RM Sotheby’s photo Text size Listen to article Length6 minutes The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum plans to sell 11 highly valuable cars from its storied collection. They include a 1964 Ferrari 250 LM (winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965) and a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Streamliner once driven by Formula One legends Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio will be sold via RM Sotheby’s, along with the other nine vehicles, at various company venues this year and in 2025. The Mercedes alone is valued at up to US$70 million, making it one of the most valuable cars in the world. A detail of the Mercedes, showing its plaid upholstery. (RM Sotheby’s photo)RM Sotheby’s photo The sale is to help shore up the Indianapolis museum’s long-term prospects, Kara Kovert Pray, vice president of advancement at the museum, tells Penta. “These cars, including the two amazing works of art with, obviously, more of a headline to them, have been part of our collection for many years,” Pray says. “But they don’t meet the mission of our museum. We’re here to celebrate the Speedway and the Indianapolis 500. The funds raised will go into an endowment for the collection, and we’ll use the interest to make acquisitions and provide upkeep for the remaining cars—around 120 of them.” MORE: Bentley Americas CEO Can Talk Cars. But Also Golf and Food. The W196, on display in California during Monterey Car Week, was a donation from Mercedes-Benz in 1965, and the Ferrari was acquired by the museum in 1972 from noted collector Kirk F. White, Pray says. Joe Hale, president of the museum, told the Indianapolis Business Journal, that the sale of the trophy cars offers a unique opportunity “to create a situation that is going to almost guarantee the future of the museum.” “These are cars that a lot of people didn’t think would ever come to market,” says Ethan Gibson, director of communications at RM Sotheby’s. “The W196 was raced by Fangio and Moss, and converted to a streamliner body in period,” Gibson says. “It’s one of the most significant and beautiful cars ever, and it’s up there in importance with the Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut [which sold for US$143 million in 2022]. The Ferrari won first overall at Le Mans in 1965, and it competed in that race three times. It’s top of the top.” RM Sotheby’s did not provide a pre-sale estimate for the Ferrari or other cars aside from the W196 Benz. This storied Ferrari 250 LM won Le Mans in 1965.RM Sotheby’s photo The Mercedes-Benz was raced by Fangio at an event in Buenos Aires in 1954. Moss ran it with the later streamliner bodywork at the 1955 Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Moss set the fastest lap time at that race, earning him a point toward the World Drivers’ Championship. The Benz was then used as a practice and test car by the company before the museum donation. Obviously, both cars have appreciated hugely since they were acquired. MORE: ‘Celestial Concierges’ and Crystal Healing. Luxury Resorts Take a Moonshot at Astrological Offerings. The Mercedes W196 will be sold in Stuttgart, Germany, with a date pending, Gibson says. The aforementioned 300 SLR was also sold there—at the Mercedes-Benz museum. “Thi