I have seen this somewhere before. The car is still on the truck, to this day!

This car and truck I believe I've seen twice, once in Denver Co.area in the 80's and in Seattle Wa.in the 90's. I believe that it is still located some where in Wa. to day. Won't post name with out permision. Can't find pictures.

Bob

Yup, I've seen it also and it is in Kent WA--still on the back of the truck and the owner told me he will never take it off. The racer is a DO Fronty and the roadster that carries it has an R Fronty.

Tim Moore

Was on the cover of the July/August 1981 of Vintage Ford. I believe it has also appeared elsewhere in the magazine over the years - possibly an article was written about it. Sorry about the splice - I had to scan the front and back cover separately.

Great racing rig.
That's enough to make the NASCAR guys jealous!

It reminds me of when we used to haul a stockcar to the track on the back of a converted beer truck.

I'm pretty sure that's the late Chris Egsgaard, aka Poobah Billy, and his rig.

"Riverside Special" reminded me of my old slides I just started scanning, and a trip to Riverside Intl Raceway in about Nov 1960. The pix I took there were among the first with my nifty new $13, 35mm camera from a little mailorder place in Mass., Radio Shack. That was before auto exposure, let alone autofocus.



Nifty emergency vehicles, huh?

rdr

That picture kind of reminds me of the motorcycle races we used to have in the 60's. One of the guys had an old ambulance with all the lights and everything still on it. We'd take it to the track and have one of the guys wreck. The "Ambulance Crew" would race for the ambulance, get in a fight over who got to drive, finally one guy would get in and get it over to where the rider was laying flat on his back. They would load him up, the driver would take off before the door was closed and, of course, dump the gurney and the rider out of the back on to the track again. Everybody would be yelling at him, he would slam on the brakes, back up as fast as the old Pontiac would go and run right over the patient. Which was a dummy on the gurney. With a little rope on the dummy you could make him crawl out of the way at the last moment, just before the ambulance ran over him or somebody would rush in and grab the dummy and drag it to safety at the last moment. It was a lot of fun but you could only do it once ot twice at every track. During the trip to the next racetrack the ambulance was used to pull a trailer and haul beer. The rider had to be quick when he was loaded into the ambulance and get off the gurney and get the dummy on it before the ambulance took off. More beer helped the show. Both by the ambulance driver, the rider and the audience. More beer helped a lot of things at those tracks. I was usually the announcer and would ask if there was a doctor in the house. We'd have a guy stagger out of the crowd with a little black bag and get out in front of the crowd, open it up and pull out a bottle, take a good swig and ask where the patient was. It was pretty cornball but we thought it was a great show.

My cousin Frank died about 40 years ago, he was the organizer of most of those escapades as well as the motorcycle and stock car races. His son has a few reels of 8mm film of those races. They are a riot. We all look so YOUNG!!!!

If you get up this way Jay, I'll take you over to check it out in person. Diane is only the second gal I know of that got to sit in it !