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

Thanks for the stories Tommy, it adds history to a picture.

 

Corvettes with Ford engines. 55's with Hemis? Weird pic night!

 

I can fill in the info on the 59/60 blue corvette. It was owned and built by a friend Peter Bonavito of Queens NY. Had a 426 Ply wedge with ram quads and a torqueflite trans. ran A/MP picture taken at Westhampton Race track around 1966.

Pat

 

Mazmanian's Willys when it first ran the hemi engine. They ran B/GS in 1963 with Bones' small block and then switched to the hemi late that year. The photo may be from Pomona where it was the first A/GS into the 9's. This was just before the car was repainted in candy red.

Roo

 

I think that there is a thread going around about this car being found.

 

I built this car in the 80's . Do you have anymore info on its owner now or location ?

 

I wish that I did, I think that it was featured in a magazine back in the day and I thought that it was a cool car. This is the only picture that I could find doing an internet search. If you have any more pictures and information on the car post them. Also do you know which magazine it was in?

 

AWSOME!

 

Cover car April 84 . I sold it to a guy and he sold it within 3 months . My son and I have searched and had police search and no results . Look at my old posts and Rusty (my sons ) posts and you should see more pictures .

 

John Smyser's "Terrifying Toronado," though it didn't terrify the competition, but instead the track photographers as it was a handful to drive, finally mounting the guard rail at Irwindale. Smyser was a top fuel guy in the early '60s, and got his nitro at Blair's. We pitted next to him at San Gabriel when he was running his fueler, and once he made fun of how I had fabricated the motor mounts on the car in my avatar. Yes, I was not the best fabricator, but they did the job. A couple of races later I noticed someone welding on Smyser's car on... yes, his motor mounts! I didn't always get the last laugh, but did this time!!

 

True, it was literally found in a barn a couple of years ago in really bad condition, the body was there, not sure about the rest of it...restoration started but as far as I know, no news in the past couple of years...would be great to see it again in restored form

 

Missing the cut-off but hey......its the Rod Shop!