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The whole car shot of the sensuous 1953 Kurtis Sorrell SR
100 Roadster, the first time the prototype has been seen out and about in 70 years!
In November 1953, Robert ‘Bob’ Vern Sorrell shocked the automotive world when his innovative creation made its world debut at the Fourth Annual International Motorama (aka the ‘Petersen Motorama’). It earned an ‘Award for Excellence’, becoming the subject of critical acclaim and notable contemporary media coverage. Then, just as soon as it had surprised and delighted everyone, it vanished from public view.
Lacking a formal education, in 1948 Sorrell enrolled at California’s El Camino College, where he studied Engineering Commercial Arts and began to lay the groundwork for his eventual professional engineering services company, Sorrell Engineering. The SR-100 prototype was the first of its many projects, on which Sorrell began focusing in 1950. Initial sketches eschewed the traditional undulating front fender line and typical ‘door dip’ as seen in emerging 1950s designs. Although ‘full envelope’ designs had been developed in various sports cars, the dominant body architecture was still embracing the rearward sweeping front fender, bobbed rear, and upright windscreen.
In late 1952 Sorrell completed a set of full-sized wooden forming bucks that fully conveyed his unique concept. Being in Southern California was already a big advantage for him. In addition to enjoying a climate conducive to open roadsters, the sports car and racing scene was growing at a rapid rate, with newcomers advancing road racing and cottage industry fabrication. Already an impressive facility with many projects to its name, California Metal Shaping was not only convenient to Sorrell, it was the industry leader in lightweight aluminium body fabrication for racing and sports car applications. Although California Metal Shaping formed the aluminium skin, Sorrell was fully engaged in building the underlying steel substructure to support the alloy body. Using the Italian Superleggera process, Sorrell worked tirelessly on the seaming, perimeter edge folds, and mating surfaces using a specialised fixture he’d developed and built to improve the process.
Of equal importance to the project, Sorrell chose another leading supplier for the chassis. Knowing that it would be challenging to gain acceptance for such a radically new design, Sorrell persisted in his quest for the best in the industry. Kurtis Kraft was the premier chassis constructor for the top Indianapolis 500 racers, with eight cars qualifying on pole and five Indy 500 wins in the 1950s. Kurtis Kraft was also building winning sports car chassis, earning numerous road-racing wins against the best Europe had to offer.
In a stroke of luck, however, Sorrell was spared the cost of purchasing a Kurtis sports car chassis. Instead, he received a brand-new Kurtis 500KK chassis (number M KK 40) in a trade with enthusiast Richard ‘Dick’ Lane. In return, Lane received a Sorrell SR-100 glassfibre body, including fabrication labour from Sorrell.
Along with the stunning coachwork and advanced design, Sorrell stepped up the innovation one final notch in his engine selection. Typical of Sorrell, here too he broke new ground outside traditional expectations, selecting a GMC unit.
Sorrell had recognised a unique combination of features that made its 302ci straight-six a potentially strong contender for peak performance. Designed initially to meet stringent military requirements, the 302 was made available in commercial trucks by 1952. The robust cam-in-block casting technology and forged rotating assembly made for a near-bulletproof power source. Even in stock trim the 302 was a stump-puller, with gobs of torque. It didn’t take long for hot-rodders and racers to discover that this engine had real potential for delivering serious horsepower. It also fitted well in the Kurtis chassis.
Dick Lane figured prominently: the 1953 Petersen Motorama signage indicated that Lane built the engine to full-race specs. Although no dyno test results have been found, period reports suggest that other GMC 302 engines equipped with the Howard 12-port crossflow head would have achieved 325bhp at 5000rpm and 320lb ft of torque at 3000rpm. Contemporary builders have realised close to 400bhp using bored-block 302s and 12-port heads. Not bad for 1953.
Juni 2021
Das ist Pirat, Amselmann Kurtis ältester Sohn, der gerade mit Jens, Karl und Lothar Nachwuchs bekommen hat und argwöhnisch die Umgebung taxiert! - This is Pirat, the eldest son of blackbird Kurti, which just get offspring. He observes suspiciously the environment
Foto extraida de la portada del album "Party Time" (Buzz Freitag)
Escuchar / Listen
(K.Blow/ J.Moore. Bralower/ R. Ford)
Come with me and let´s take a trip
Where the scene is tough and the folks are hip
I can´t tell a lie ´cause it ain´t no myth
I´m talking about A Hundred Twenty Fifth
Foxy ladies everywhere
Skin tight jeans and jazzy hair
Clothes for the body, shoes for the feet
And lots of tasty things to eat
One Hundred Twenty Fifth Street
The people and the concrete
The hottest spot to work and play
Main Street, Harlem, USA
Original paintings on the walls
Music stores and bingo halls
Apollo´s gone, but that´s OK
There´s lots of music anyway
The Baby Grand is still going strong
Celebrity Club rocks all night long
Sikulu Records is on the case
And Bobby´s chillin´out in the same old place
Lots of folks have passed this way
Malcom X and Billie Holiday
Fidel Castro, The Commodores
Heads of State and troubadours
The Count, The Duke, The Pres, The Bird
Have bought music and that´s my word
Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder
Have all come for Harlem´s thunder
Marcus Garvey and JFK
Meadowlark Lemon and Doctor J
And Doctor Martin Luther King
All came to Harlem to do their thing
Louis, Jack Johnson and Ali
The heavyweight to name but three
Bill Bojangles and James Brown
Spent their time in Harlem Town
Con-men, poets, saints and sinners
Three time losers and all time winners
Politicians, fools and sages
Enough to fill a million pages
So take the trip and come alive
The A train stops at One-Twenty-Five
Where I was born one August day
On Main Street, Harlem, USA
This car took part in the Flockhart Trophy Race for Pre-1961 Front-Engined Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011. It's the 1957 Kurtis KK500G Offenhauser of Stuart Harper, driven in the race by Frederick Harper, which was shown in the programme of the event as a 4.2 litre Kurtis Indy Roadster. This is the car that Ray Crawford took to the Indianapolis 500 race in 1957 and 1958 as the Meguiar Mirror Glaze Special, but failed both times to qualify for the race. Ray Crawford took part in the Race of Two Worlds round the banked oval at Monza with the car in both 1957 and 1958, one-sided exhibition events that pitted American Indianapolis cars against a motley collection of European cars. The race in both years consisted of three heats with the winner being the best car over the three races. In 1957 Ray Crawford's results in the heats were seventh, fourth and retired, and in 1958 tenth, eighth and fourth.
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Sunny Isles Beach (SIB, officially City of Sunny Isles Beach) is a city located on a barrier island in northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on the west.
Sunny Isles Beach is an area of cultural diversity with stores lining Collins Avenue, the main thoroughfare through the city.
It is a growing resort area and developers such as Michael Dezer have invested heavily in construction of high-rise hotels and condominiums while licensing the Donald Trump name for some of the buildings for promotional purposes. Sunny Isles Beach has a central location, minutes from Bal Harbour to the south, and Aventura to the north and west.
Sunny Isles Beach was also the 2008 site of MTV's annual "Spring Break" celebration, with headquarters at the local Newport Beachside Resort.
In 1920, Harvey Baker Graves, a private investor, purchased a 2.26-square-mile (5.9 km2) tract of land for development as a tourist resort. He named it Sunny Isles -- The Venice of America.
When the Haulover bridge was completed in 1925, the area became accessible from Miami Beach, attracting developers who widened streams, dug canals and inlets and created islands and peninsulas for building waterfront properties on Biscayne Bay.
In the 1920s, Carl G. Fisher built an all-wooden racetrack with stands for 12,000 spectators, known as the Fulford-Miami Speedway. This event, held on February 22, 1926, dubbed "Carl G. Fisher Cup Race," was a forerunner to the auto races at Sebring and Daytona. In September 1926, after just one race, the track was destroyed by the 1926 Miami Hurricane. This event was held in Fulford-By-the-Sea which is today's North Miami Beach. Sunny Isles Beach was known as North Miami Beach until 1931, then known as Sunny Isles until 1997.
In 1936, Milwaukee malt magnate Kurtis Froedtert bought Sunny Isles. The Sunny Isles Pier was built and soon became a popular destination. Sunny Isles developed slowly until the 1950s when the first single-family homes were built in the Golden Shores area. During the 1950s and 1960s more than 30 motels sprang up along Collins Avenue including the Ocean Palm, the first two-story motel in the U.S. Designed by Norman Giller in 1948 it was developed and owned by the Gingold family for the next 45 years and provided the springboard for Sunny Isles economic development. Tourists came from all over to vacation in themed motels of exotic design along "Motel Row". One motel, The Fountainhead, was so named by its owner, Norman Giller, after the novel by Ayn Rand. As of 2013, the Ocean Palm Motel is closed.
In 1982 the half-mile-long Sunny Isles Pier was designated a historic site. In the early-mid 80s, it went through restoration and re-opened to the public in 1986. The pier was severely damaged in October 2005 by Hurricane Wilma. After 8 years, it was remodeled and reopened as Newport Fishing Pier on June 15, 2013.
In 1997, the citizens of the area voted to incorporate as a municipality. Sunny Isles was renamed Sunny Isles Beach. Sunny Isles Beach began major redevelopment during the real estate boom of the early 2000s with mostly luxury high-rise condominiums and some hotels under construction along the beach side of Collins Avenue (A1A) replacing most of the historic one- and two-story motels along Motel Row. In 2011, construction began on two more high-rises, Regalia, located on the northern border of the city along A1A, and The Mansions at Acqualina, located adjacent to the Acqualina Resort & Spa on the Beach.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Isles_Beach,_Florida
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This car competed in the 1950s Sports Racing Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011. It's the 1953 Kurtis 500S of Geraint Owen which is chassis KK45 and has a 331 cu in (5,424cc) Chrysler V8 engine. Frank Kurtis is best known for the Indianapolis 500 race winners of the 1950s, but he also built the Kurtis roadsters that were basically Indianapolis 500 cars with a two seater body. These were very successful in the USA, particularly on the winding circuits of the West Coast where they frequently beat the more sophisticated imported European cars.
Kurtis era un fabricante de coches de carreras tipo Indy. En los 50 decidió aprovechar algunos de los chasis de sus bólidos para venderlos como deportivos de calle. Éste es uno de ellos.
This car competed in the 1950s Sports Racing Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011. It's the 1953 Kurtis 500S of Geraint Owen which is chassis KK45 and has a 331 cu in (5,424cc) Chrysler V8 engine. Frank Kurtis is best known for the Indianapolis 500 race winners of the 1950s, but he also built the Kurtis roadsters that were basically Indianapolis 500 cars with a two seater body. These were very successful in the USA, particularly on the winding circuits of the West Coast where they frequently beat the more sophisticated imported European cars.
A rather late follow on recolour of the weird, wonderful and extremely obscure 1949 Kurtis Sport Car by Matchbox. A very worthy follow I might add which continues with the glossy metallic theme and of course they dare not delete the chromed front and side panels which were a feature of the real Kurtis.
Part of a decent 2023 Case D haul at B&M Bargains.
Mint and boxed.
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Chantilly Arts et élégance
3eme des 6 exemplaires construits.
Fabriquée par Frank Kurtis et la société Kurtis-Kraft
Châssis : 855 SX 3.
Moteur Buick V8 5965cc.
Sam Hanks, pilote d'IndyCar et employé chez Bill Murphy Buick, était l'assistant ingénieur, le chef d'équipe et le pilote d'essai de la voiture. Durant ses deux années de compétition, de septembre 1955 à septembre 1957, elle remporta neuf victoires au classement général et dix-huit victoires de catégorie sur les circuits du sud de la Californie, de Torrey Pines à Riverside. Murphy participa à la course du Trophée Del Monte en 1956, dernière édition des Pebble Beach Road Races.