LATE '50s-EARLY '60s Dragway 42 Pictures...

Attended Dragway 42 as a kid from 1958 to 1963... anybody got pictures from then, and there?
Or, pictures of the cars that regularly ran there, during that time frame?

 

I'll start off with a couple of my favorite cars that ran there;
Otis Smith,



and Gentleman Joe Schubeck.

 

I'd like to see pics of all four lanes. Decades ahead of Charlotte's circus.

 

My friend Ralph Meiser used to race this '55 Gasser there.

 

Four Lanes...? what the hell are you talkin' about?...
as far as I know back in the days I was there as a kid, there were three lanes;
left and right,... and a return lane..
This thread is about Dragway 42 from 1958 to 1963... please stay OT, the early days...Thanks,

Walt Knoch, a speed-shop owner and operator from Dearborn, Mich. ran this flashy, red blown Chrysler-equipped roadster "Walt's Puffer Too"

 

them some great pics

 

This thing is awesome!!!

 

I was very young when my dad raced there,But ,There where 2 dragstrips side by side with a gaurd rail in between them. Ran separete classes at the same time
And it was in the later 60's so Frenchtown isnt all wrong

Tony

 

cool pics Rocky.is that stone-woods &cook willys in post #14?

 

Never said he was wrong, the thread was very specific as to the time frame,
1958-1963.
Yes, Dragway 42 was probably the first in the country that ran a four wide program for quite a long time. The exception would have been a few strips in the very early '50s that
would occasionally 4 wide, and even 6 wide, before racing got standardized by the NHRA.

 

YES, it was Gary B, I accidentally deleted most of the pictures that were posted...

P.S.-I found them again in My Documents!... It seems that when you take pictures out of your albums in your profile on the HAMB, it deletes them from the postings you have made.
So, will post 'em again when I have time.

 

Here' one,...Chris Karamesines Top Fueler

 

And another one...
ART ARFONS - CYCLOPS powered by a J-79 surplus jet engine, still one of the most powerful ever built. When he would hit the afterburner half way down track, all HELL would break loose!!!

 

Colson & Wood 41 Studebaker

 

Very cool pics, the first time I went to dragway 42, I was about 10 years old, went to watch my cousin race his brand new 67 olds 442

 

Dave Koffel's Flintstone Flyer

 

Gene Schwartz

 

George Montgomery

 

Sneeky Pete Robinson

 

Tom Reed '55 Gasser

 

Art Arfon's Akron Ohio - "Green Monster" J-47 surplus jet engine

 

Otis Smith - Akron Ohio

 

i bet i got over three hundred slides from there more in the mid 60's time frame. had alot of fun out there. these are from a top fuel meet and from a gasser meet also..dave

 

That is Awesome ckustoms! Would it be possible to post some of em' up?

 

Anyone have any picture's of The Music Maker B/D of Ralph & Bob Music from Dayton Ohio ?

 

I don't have any of my pictures from back then anymore, so I have to search on the web for pics. of cars from the day. Believe me, I have searched everywhere for pics. of that car. I loved It!!
He was always a top runner, and that car lived up to it's name...!
As I recall, I think his last name was Musick.

 

Hey, Dave, your avatar... that Stude truck looks awfully familiar...
Please tell me a little about it.

 

Hi Rocky !!! I have a few picture's of it but no way to post them.Yes it belonged to Ralph & Bob Musick from Dayton Oh.They built a new dragster in 1962 to run A/Fuel.They are my Cousin's. Ralph still has a Body Sop here in Dayton.

 

Hey Cecil, do you need some help in how to post them?
Probably saw them run the A/F dragster at '42... in '62