An Artist, With a Car Connection - Dan Blocker / Huffaker Genie

[Otto Puzzell]

Who is this person, and what car can he be associated with?

Art and cars. Painters, writers, musicians, actors, movie makers: in a nutshell, artists. Cars of special importance in their work, or in their life.

[Allemano]

He has the exhalted expression of a opera singer

[Otto Puzzell]

He does, though that's not the trade he's known for. But then again...

[Allemano]

USAmerican?

[Otto Puzzell]

Very

[Ray B.]

This is Dan Blocker, of Bonanza fame, and he was the owner of a 1965 Huffaker Genie MK10 race car nicknamed "Vinegaroon".
The blackface picture is  his portrayal of DeLawd in the 1949 movie "Green Pastures".

[Allemano]

Wow, that was impressing!
I've found that face common somehow, but Hoss Cartwright would had been never on my list...

[Otto Puzzell]

This is Dan Blocker, of Bonanza fame, and he was the owner of a 1965 Huffaker Genie MK10 race car nicknamed "Vinegaroon".
The blackface picture is  his portrayal of DeLawd in the 1949 movie "Green Pastures".

How the hell did you get that so fast?!

One of my favorite horse operas, Bonanza was. 

[Otto Puzzell]

By the way, he's connected to another race car that is a long-solved puzzle here, for those who care to rummage.

[Ray B.]

I googled "blackface", as I knew that's what they called this type of role.

[Otto Puzzell]

By the way, he's connected to another race car that is a long-solved puzzle here, for those who care to rummage.

This one - Dan's the tall guy in back, wearing a hat: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=14808.0

[Otto Puzzell]

Period pic