The HCCA Holiday Motor Excursion happened again, starting at the Irwindale Raceway Parking lot and winding through the scenic byways of the Pasadena Area. For some reason, this year’s tour was a monster, it seemed like the attendance was way, way up. More cars than I could count. The Justice Brothers collection of sprint and racing cars was opened to the tour participants, which was really a treat.
Ok. Fess up. did you have a hangover on New Year’s day? Did you fight it off by watching the Rose Parade on TV? Well if you did, then you saw this White tour bus, one of the Glacier National Park tour buses. On the Parade, it was paired up with one of the yellow ones from Yellowstone National park, and of course full of Rose Parade dignitaries.
The driver’s meeting used to be done by hollering. Now it’s more high tech, with this guy holding up flashcards.
Jay Leno, our hobby’s most famous ambassador, took advantage of the quiet presentation of the driver’s meeting to throw out a few jokes and comments, and everybody laughed.
Tour Buses were popular this year!
An ancient Pierce Arrow Motorcycle under it’s own steam!
Fun to see this old fire truck in action. It really sounded good, a big deep grumbling exhaust note.
A beautiful Rolls Ghost
A Franklin from 1915.
While we’re on Franklin’s here’s a later one with faux Radiator shell. hard to find the water opening, though!
Lovely Pierce-Arrow Club Sedan
Stutz Roadster
Doble Steam Roadster
Lincoln “L” Roadster, wearing it’s Pebble Beach tour of Elegance sticker on the headlamp.
A REO touring. Obviously, REO stands for Ransom E. Olds, and was built by the company Mr. Olds founded after losing control of Oldsmobile.
That looks like FUN! just watch your elbow on the exhaust pipe! I think that’s a Studebaker, but I’m open to being corrected on that.
Show us your Tatra’s ! ( I might have used that one before, but it was on a DIFFERENT Tatra, so there! )
A close look at this car revealed sheetmetal valvecovers peeking out of BOTH sides of the hood louvers. Alvan Macauley would not recognize it!
’33 Lincoln KB Judkins Coupe. I think that’s the very original Stetson car.
Here’s a Studebaker.
A 1923 Cadillac Phaeton
How About a Maxwell ?
Or a ’29 Packard Dietrich Dual Cowl?
Epitomizing the Brass Era is this Pierce-Arrow Touring.
A nice Lincoln “L” touring full of holiday excursionists! Note the anti-aircraft angle of the pilot rays!
Another spectacular Rolls Ghost
Bentley Touring, another car that looks like fun!
An Early Buick. Parked on the street, just like it might have done back in the pre WW1 era.
Here’s the tour lineup at the Justice Brother’s compound
The Justices were Sprint car racer’s back in the day, and they’ve amassed one of the nation’s premier collection of sprint and midget cars!
Race Cars too! The top fuel dragster and funny car were Larry Minor’s cars.
How about a Roth VW powered Trike? Betcha didn’t expect to see THAT on a Horseless carriage tour!
This reminds me a lot of the old Movieworld cars of Stars museum, which was in Buena Park, CA back in the 70’s. Ed Roth and Von Dutch hung out there, and built stuff like this right on the premises.
More Sprint cars.
This was used in the Mel Brooks movie “Spaceballs” – although I bet there wasn’t a “Justice Brothers” Sticker on the fake engine pod in the film!
Here’s a big outlaw sprinter with the giant wings mounted to the roll cage.
Here’s an early one. Note the dirt tires, and total absence of roll bar. The rollbar was the driver’s cloth-helmeted noggin ! This type of racing was extremely dangerous.
An early streamliner dragster.
A later Streamliner dragster, looks like 70’s vintage.
Here’s a display Offenhauser engine, a staple of the sprint car world.
A Czechoslovakian JAWA speedway bike. We’ll show those eastern European commies what’s up by painting it with a metalflake American flag!
We close our Holiday Motor excursion with this photo of a stunt airplane! Looks like a Pitts biplane.