1922, Mont Ventoux. Morgan
“Santa Clara County, California. Motorcycle and Hill Climb Recreation. At the start of the course. The going gets even rougher and steeper further on. The crowd in the background is composed almost entirely of young fellows. At the bottom of the hill can be seen the parking area. Besides the automobiles, approximately 200 motorcyclists had come to this Sunday event, 04/05/1940.”
Rondal Partridge, photographer. From the series: Study of Youth Photographs, 1940, Records of the National Youth Administration, 1934 – 1945
Photo #3: I need that Indian pullover shirt. So rare!………………s8v
These men use Shell.1939.
Lithograph in colours.
76 x 113 cm.Art by Richard Guyatt.(1914-2007).
Bentley Boys in 1920s
WHEN MEN WERE MEN
Woolf Barnato in his single seat Bentley at the 1928 BARC Easter Meeting at Brooklands.
I am certain that the younger lady stood next to the cockpit is Barnato’s daughter, the remarkable Diana Barnato Walker who flew with the ATA during the war. She went on honeymoon in a Spitfire she was delivering and later became the first British woman to break the Sound Barrier at 1,262 mph in that most macho of jet fighters, the English Electric Lightning . A worthy daughter of one of the Bentley Boys.
what we miss … natural grandstands
Manfred von Brauchitsch & Rudolf Caracciola on their way to a Mercedes one-two in their Daimler-Benz Mercedes W125 at the 1937 Monaco Grand Prix