2010.49.2

Vern Tardel at Bonneville
1997
Gift of the artist
2010.49.2

frame and mat
in pencil, on mat, lower right corner below window - "Peter Vincent"
date next to signature in pencil, on mat, lower right corner below window "@ 97" (@ = copyright insignia)
"Real Hot Rods by Vern Tardel: Photographs by Peter Vincent and David Perry" - SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Nov. 6-Dec. 20 2002.

This is a photograph of Vern (?) in his car at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Per PL: The photograph documents a leading individual in California's car culture, and belongs with a large body of OMCA works including automobiles and related car culture material. Tardel's car is the quintessential hot rod: it remains as it was built in the early 1960s, with genuine patina, cracks on the body, etc. Tardel contrunies to drive the car and has driven the 1500 mile round trip to the Bonneville Salt Flats numerous times. Per PL: The photograph depicts Vern Tardell sitting in his fenderless 1932 Ford roadster on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Tardell is wearing a white t-shirt, WWII piolot's leather hat and goggles. The car, which Tardel built as a stripped down hot rod in highschool in the early 1960s, is covered with salt as it has been driven daily on the salt during hte annual August "Speed Week." Tardel builds race cars and has held land speed records at Bonneville. He maintains a shop in rural Santa Rosa.

printed on AGFA paper

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