Milodon and the lightness of being

Check this shot of Ron Winkel in his Milodon t-shirt, next to none other than Kent Fuller – builder of the one and only "Magicar." GAWD, this car was bitchin.' And a real game-changer, to boot.

This is probably the mid-Sixties in Southern California...probably around '64 when the Fuller's Magicar first stomped all over everybody at the dragstrips.

That Milodon print on Ron's shirt is about as big as I'd like to ever see a logo on the chest. May be even pushing it a little. Really interesting to me how the dichotomy of a cartoon illustration for a speed parts company spent so much time in the company of a 1400hp mankiller. The speeds and the equipment of the day was a lethal combination and it was kinda REAL SERIOUS when shit went wrong. But hell, if you knew that back then, maybe a little levity was what you needed to be able to do it every weekend. I think that might be part of it.

But I'd kill for an original one of these – racer's coffee stains and all. Ah, if Winkel's shirt could only talk...