This is a historically significant car, of which I know little. Perhaps one of our commentators can provide more background than I. Here it is parked in front of another historically significant item, a nationally known structure (though perhaps not in the same nation) … can you name it?
Meanwhile, soak in some more photos “after the jump.”
Looks like the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff Alberta.
This is probably *the* most comprehensive source of info on Max’s “junkyard dogs!”
http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/MaxBalchowsky1.html#Max1
It is indeed the Banff Springs Hotel. (no fair though, you’re a Canadian! 😉 )
Just thought of this: Were you to get a ‘wayback machine,’ and take the car back to Riverside, with those modern radial tires on it, the car would have RUN AWAY AND HID from *all* other competition.
One of *the* most important automotive advancements in the past 50 years is the VAST increase in the quality of tires. The *lowliest* of cheap-o radials today would boot into the puckerbrush the BEST racing tires of the 50s and 60s, and well into the 70s.