I just learned of a treasure of 60's dragstrip photos, Nomad Eternus Flikr page

Above, the only photo I've seen of Danny Ongais, who you may have not learned was an Army paratrooper, AHRA and NHRA champion, and among other famous teams, he drove for Roland Leong, John Mazmanian, Dragmaster, and while partnered with Mickey Thompson they broke 295 records at Bonneville. He won a lot of SCCA races, qualified for a lot of Indy 500, and what else I don't know

above, plexi windows in the front of a belly tanker... must have been a blast to drive!

Above, that is some air induction!

just a small sample from http://www.flickr.com/photos/57343654@N03/page1/

prototype art for a sports car Tucker showed up at auction last year, Hemmings posted it, but I missed it then

art work by Read Viemeister, an industrial designer who was sorta famous because of his Tucker car design http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/10/obituaries/read-viemeister-industrial-designer-70.html

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/07/30/tucker-memorabilia-surfaces-at-auction/

A Tucker on Rodeo... very cool to see a Tucker on a street again, and not in a museum

Portago has Deadly Curves Blogpsot, and has posted the best instrument cluster photos I've found. Including a Tucker!

found at http://deadlycurves.blogspot.com/2013/02/1933-car-gauges-shift-to-modernarity.html

once, a Tucker was just a car, and peoples kids played on them. Now, they are museum pieces. Sorta sad in a way

found on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com

Photos of the Tucker I haven't seen before

as rare as the 40 Tuckers are, they were probably all on a used car lot at one time. Just a guess. It's very odd to see one used as a billboard though

All found on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com

the first (only) Tucker I've seen at a car show

A very unique interior, and this is the first time I've been able to take photos with good light

 with such a small dashboard, the radio was installed on the side of it. That shifter us normally seen in Terraplanes and a couple French cars... but is a cool looking design and might have been why it was used to sell the cars for Preston. Small and efficient, unusual enough to be eye catching, and works well with the levers on the far side of the  instrument cluster

Behind this small rear quarter panel grill, is the fuel filler door. Good hiding spot.

6 exhaust pipes and big grill for a tail panel because it has a 6 cylinder air cooled helicopter engine if I remember correctly

this Tucker needed a tow

Not likely to ever see a Tucker on city streets again in my life, so I took a photo

Barn finds, a year in review of what's been pulled out, put up for sale, or auctioned off

 That is a barn, sometimes they are easy to distinguish, and sometimes, they look like a lot of wood in a vague pile that might have space under it

 Inside you mghight find a pile of stuff... like the above 1961 Renault Carvelle, or even better the below 1956 Jaguar xk 140.

 Or sometimes you might just see that pile has a tail light under it. Right in the above photo to the bottom left

 or the above pile with a hood and a bit of windshield

 turns out to be a 1969 GTO

 Look in the back, a lot of people are not happy about every poor out of money dreamer asking if they want that car hauled away, and so they pushed it around to the back of the garage

 or threw a tarp over it. Above, a 68 Mustang, below, a Boss 302 Mustang

So.. that is about all you need to know about barnfinds, now, here are the ones that were up for sale last year

1927 Erskine (offshoot of Studebaker) model 50 sedan

32 Ford

1932 Packard

1937 Lagonda

1939 Hupmobile Senior

1947 Allard K1

1947 Pontiac woody (these woodys are worth upward of 50 thou in this condition)

A Tucker

1949 Delahaye 135

1953 Corvette (only 251 were made, they sucked, but they are worth a lot to a collector)

1954 Glasspar G2

 1957 Mercedes Gullwing 300SL

 1957 Morgan Plus 4

 cool 1959 Taylor electric cart

 1959 Morris Mini

 B/FX dragster that raced in 1966... damn, want that engine

 1968 Charger

 Even a High Country Special Mustang


now here are the Corvettes

58

 59

 63 split window

 64 Stingray

and this was found after 20 years of sitting in a shipping container in Waipahu Hawaii

So keep your eyes on http://www.barnfinds.com for the ones that come out of hiding in the future... you never can tell what rare or previously unheard of custom will be found