This driver escaped death when his racing car burst into flames during a race for midget cars at Hollywood, California on October 23. Attendants unbuckled him and dragged him to safety after he had been badly burned. These pictures were taken an instant after the car had caught fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1938, Page 6
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49This driver escaped death when his racing car burst into flames during a race for midget cars at Hollywood, California on October 23. Attendants unbuckled him and dragged him to safety after he had been badly burned. These pictures were taken an instant after the car had caught fire. Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1938, Page 6
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