History Drag cars in motion.......picture thread.

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[PVTA Jay]

Originally Posted by Wrongway1320

here is a shot from first trip to the Shakey Side

Printing in white at top of picture says Freight Train vs. Sour Sisters

[Mark Hinds]

Originally Posted by WCD

Airline Auto Sales on either Mission or Holt in Pomona. I think a guy named Joe Mounaghan (spl) bought the lot years later. Joe was active with the UFRA circuit with a cool flathead powered Henry J that he ran in J/gas. I have an older cousin whose husband gerw up in Pomona and knew a few of the early PVTA regulars. He didnt race, he was just accquainted with these folks. I recall him being friends with one of the guys who partnered on the Cerny-Lins-Moody sereis of cars. I will ask at the next family get together.

Geez I thought that this might take a day or two. Airline auto sale was on Holt in Pomona. I got the picture from Herb Ries yesterday. The injected Jr. Fueler belonged to Richard Hibbard. The Olds next to Richard was in fact Herbs car with Steve Porter at the other end. WCD,you are the MAN......

[Wrongway1320]

Originally Posted by PVTA Jay

Printing in white at top of picture says Freight Train vs. Sour Sisters

Yep I think thats them been a few years but I think it was the train (twin Chwvys) vs Safford Gatie & Ratican (blown olds). If anybody knows different I cant argue the point.My fuzzy memory inside a "dented helmet" says that Safford was on a 12 win terror at San Gabe at that time. Anybody confirm or deny that little factoid

[Wrongway1320]

Another one from San Gabe 3/63

[Bucksnort]

Originally Posted by R W Ohio

Maybe not in motion

Like that...Olds power?

Originally Posted by Wrongway1320

Early Gasser Action

Nice stuff,wrongway.Keep 'em coming

[Wrongway1320]

Originally Posted by Royalshifter

Excellent photo.

Thanks to you for starting this thread & to 296ardun.This thread got me to finally dig out some of the old photos & do something about sharing them with folks that enjoy them & have given me many hours of enjoyment by posting there photos.Most of what I post will be stuff I shot (If I am in the photo I didnt shoot it)
Lets keep this thread rolling

[Wrongway1320]

Thanks Bucksnort

[Dean Lowe]

Originally Posted by Wrongway1320

Another one from San Gabe 3/63

God, I loved San Gabe. Irwindale was good, but San Gabe was just so low key, it was pure grass roots drag racing.

[296ardun]

Originally Posted by PVTA Jay

Printing in white at top of picture says Freight Train vs. Sour Sisters

I saw it but if the caption referred to all twins as "freight trains," ok, but this is clearly not the Peters & Frank train, it's Jeep Hampshire's effort with two Olds F-85 aluminum engines, first ran unblown, and later Jeep put lungs on them...I sold him one of the motors so know the car well....the other car is Kenny Safford, in the Safford, Gaide, and Ratican car...Ivo called S, G, and R the "sour sisters" because they never smiled, and they appropriated the name.

But, question, Safford, Gaide, and Ratican normally ran Hilborns, this shot shows an Endrele, and a crude airfoil on the car, wonder if this is around the end for this car, which was replaced by the Fuller "Shark Car"?

[296ardun]

Originally Posted by Wrongway1320

Thanks to you for starting this thread & to 296ardun.This thread got me to finally dig out some of the old photos & do something about sharing them with folks that enjoy them & have given me many hours of enjoyment by posting there photos.Most of what I post will be stuff I shot (If I am in the photo I didnt shoot it)
Lets keep this thread rolling

Thank you, and look forward to the pictures

[Wrongway1320]

Still 3/63 at San Gabe

[Mazooma1]

Originally Posted by Wrongway1320

Still 3/63 at San Gabe

San Gabriel was my first drag strip. Dad took me there starting in the late 1950's.
In the early 1960's I rode my bike to San Gabe with my camera bag in my bike bag on my back.
Great days at that strip and no doubt I was there when these photos were taken.
This was a couple of years before Irwindale opened.
I preferred San Gabe and Fontana. They both were "bare bones", old splintery wood bleachers, dirt, dust and more dirt.
These were drag strips, not casinos.
Bare-bones...just fun, no more was needed.

Oddly enough I took a photo just three hours ago of the old San Gabe site.
I always carry a camera, so, for some reason I snapped this, just hours ago. I always keep the camera focused on "infinity" when I'm driving, so I just point in the general direction and hit the shutter.

Right where all the electrical equipment is was the spot of many great days of drag racing.....

[Wrongway1320]

Originally Posted by Mazooma1

San Gabriel was my first drag strip. Dad took me there starting in the late 1950's.
In the early 1960's I rode my bike to San Gabe with my camera bag in my bike bag on my back.
Great days at that strip and no doubt I was there when these photos were taken.
This was a couple of years before Irwindale opened.
I preferred San Gabe and Fontana. They both were "bare bones", old splintery wood bleachers, dirt, dust and more dirt.
These were drag strips, not casinos.
Bare-bones...just fun, no more was needed.

Oddly enough I took a photo just three hours ago of the old San Gabe site.
I always carry a camera, so, for some reason I snapped this, just hours ago. I always keep the camera focused on "infinity" when I'm driving, so I just point in the general direction and hit the shutter.

Right where all the electrical equipment is was the spot of many great days of drag racing.....

I was on a trip with my parents (my first to the west coast) borrowed a 51 Studebaker from my uncle and drove up from Lakewood. Later I found out my uncles neighborhood was home to a few racers of some note (Gene Moonyham, Bill Hays,Brasket or Kanners. The feature at San Gabe that Sunday was Ivo vs A jet car (USA1 I think),Thanks for Your contributions to this thread.

[Wrongway1320]

Gas Ronda 63 Ford 427-425hp Liteweight !!! Fiberglass hood & front fenders probably still topped 4000lbs. I think this is the pass when the driveshaft (complete with the pinion & pinion support) hit the ground and went about 50 ft up when the car passed over it.

[Wrongway1320]

Last one for tonight

[Mazooma1]

it was probably Ivo Vs. the "Untouchable" jet car owned by Romeo Palamides.
That was the day Ivo came to the starting line with weiners and marshallows on sticks attached to his rollbar on the "Branstormer". I was there and will never forget it.

[R W Ohio]

Sherm Sly's G/Gasser

[bushwacker 57]

Originally Posted by WCD

I always liked this car. And while it wasnt all that competetive, it had nice lines and graphics.

As Mike would say IT SOUNDS LIKE RAIL BIRD TALK.