Family albums ‘n four-speeds – the black-and-white years

We’ll start off this week’s FA&4S with a couple more shots from James Belohovek, who provided all the Total Recall photos for us recently. James said his father, Dick, raced jalopies in Southern California in the 1950s and early 1960s. “He would always be in the garage working on a motor or welding up a car frame,” James wrote.

And James writes that his uncle, Dick Patterson, “was in charge of the Orange Show Custom Rods back in the late 1960s, and his own car had graced the cover of several hot rod magazines of the time.” One of which H.A.M.B.er Bass posted a few years back.

Jeff Boster, of Port Angeles, Washington, actually wrote to our Lost and Found column with this one from his aunt’s photo album. Though he doesn’t know who the 20-gallon hat man on the left is, he identified the man on the right as Patrick Holland, of Fort Pierre, South Dakota. Quick, intrepid car spotters – what year, make and model did we tell Jeff the car was?

Another Lost and Found entry, this one from Jim Loftfield of his father standing in front of an old truck and a Standard Oil of Indiana gas station in the late 1920s. Old truck spotters will have no problem with the make of the truck, but who built that cab?

Finally, just to add a little color to this post, DTA passed on this photo of XTACTA making vroom-vroom noises in the Lazzarino at the 2008 Equinox hill climb.

If you have old car photos in your family albums, we’d love to see them!