Flyinbowtie
01-24-2007, 02:50 PM
This old small snapshot was in some of my Dad's stuff we just discovered, 25 years after his death. The car is a '34 Ford 3-window coupe, the number on the door is 143, and the lettering on the door says, "Driver Art Chrisman"
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/1525934.jpg
I believe that my father is the middle man in of the three seated in the background. My mother and I have narrowed the time span down to post 1946 thru 1950. We suspect it is Muroc, as Dad went there more than he did El Mirage. I have searched for hours on the net tring to find this car in a dated picture or a record of it in historical data from the SCTA, etc, but no luck. Plenty on the chopped coupe they had and the #25 dragster, but none on this car.
I have a letter drafted to send to Art Chrisman, whom my mother beleves was a good friend of Dad's from back in the early days of racing on the lakes.
Her last contact with Chrisman was in a chrome shop in Long Beach in the early fifties, she dropped some parts off, and Chrisman overheard her last name, introduced himself, and said he was an old friend of Dads.
I'm gonna send the letter with a copy of the pic to him, but wondered if anybody out there might have an old lakes racer in the family who might recognize this car...
All of my fathers other photos, timing slips, trophies, etc were destroyed by his first wife,:mad: whom he divorced prior to meeting my mother in 1951.
So anything I can do to piece together his racing history is of great interest to me, and any help will be greatly appreciated.
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/1525934.jpg
I believe that my father is the middle man in of the three seated in the background. My mother and I have narrowed the time span down to post 1946 thru 1950. We suspect it is Muroc, as Dad went there more than he did El Mirage. I have searched for hours on the net tring to find this car in a dated picture or a record of it in historical data from the SCTA, etc, but no luck. Plenty on the chopped coupe they had and the #25 dragster, but none on this car.
I have a letter drafted to send to Art Chrisman, whom my mother beleves was a good friend of Dad's from back in the early days of racing on the lakes.
Her last contact with Chrisman was in a chrome shop in Long Beach in the early fifties, she dropped some parts off, and Chrisman overheard her last name, introduced himself, and said he was an old friend of Dads.
I'm gonna send the letter with a copy of the pic to him, but wondered if anybody out there might have an old lakes racer in the family who might recognize this car...
All of my fathers other photos, timing slips, trophies, etc were destroyed by his first wife,:mad: whom he divorced prior to meeting my mother in 1951.
So anything I can do to piece together his racing history is of great interest to me, and any help will be greatly appreciated.