Harley Board Trackers

From Mulligan Machine


From Batura Brothers

I've always had a bit of board-tracker thing. These are modern takes on bikes that saw their hey-day in the 1920's and 1930's.

Board track racing - as it's name implies - is racing on a track made of wood. The other primary feature of the tracks was their bank - some tracks were banked at angles of 45 degrees. Some tracks were up to 2 miles in length.

No Easy Days

Jalopy Journal's got some old flat track racing photos from the Bay Area... I found the link at Hemmings.

Fine lookin' speedster...

I dunno who Sid Haugdahl is, but I like his speedster. Found this on FloridaStockCars.com...

When men were men (and likely to get killed)

Killed Myself When I Was Young from The Jalopy Journal on Vimeo.

Warning this video is not censored. It shows the brutality of racing pre/post WW2. You needed a set of brass ones to get behind the wheels of these...

From Just a Car Guy... "this video is a compilation of crashes, and unlike todays videos of incredibly designed race cars, the roadsters and early racecars in this video didn't have many features that could save the lives of the drivers. No padded dashes, no airbags, no steering wheels that will bend and are concave so you don't get the column through your sternum, no roll cages or tops of any kind to keep the driver in during rollovers, no seat belts, and nothing like a crumple zone."

When NASCAR was cool

Back in day, before big dollar sponsors and C of T, NASCAR consisted of a bunch of rednecks driving like bats outta hell. No drafting, no HANS devices, no strategies - just balls to the walls racing...

I'm not hatin' - completely - on NASCAR. It still is a redneck sport - the only national one. But I've seen a lotta changes since the late 70's - when I first started watching. It's just not the same - and not as good.

From Jalopnik.