Longtime blog readers will recognize the car in the above photo as the Ralph Schenck streamliner, which I profiled back in December 2006. It’s a unique car that doesn’t garner as much attention as some other early dry lakes racers, but like those other early dry lakes racers, Strother MacMinn turned his camera on it and grabbed this photo of the streamliner at the January 1948 Hot Rod Exposition at the Los Angeles Armory.
Only thing is, Strother never developed the film before he died in January 1998. That task was left to Robert Ames, who bought several cansiters of undeveloped film from Strother’s estate a year later and who compiled some of the best of those photos in the book he and Ken Gross recently released, “Hot Rods and Custom Cars – Los Angeles and the Dry Lakes: The Early Years.” The placard in the photo reads “Heinrich & Seaton / Competition Streamliners / Mercury engine,” and the ‘liner still wears the nose Ralph Schenck put on it (rather than the tube-grille nose Heinrich and Seaton put on it, shown in the earlier post), so we now know Heinrich and Seaton made their modifications in 1948, either before or during the race season.
Robert and Ken’s book is full of amazing, rarely-seen photos like this, but they printed a very limited run of 1,000, so if you’re interested, order your copy sooner rather than later.
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