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

US 131.

 

This car was ahead of it's time, really dig the aero. look.
Sure do miss the creativity of 60's drag racing.

 

X2!!!!

 

TF creativity today is...gasp....enclosed cockpits!!!

 

The late Danny Roberts, long-time Blair's employee, drove this car...it was build after I left Blair's for the Navy, but remember it well on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine

 

More Tom West photos, Jeep Hampshire in the Caspary and Hampshire car...Riverside


One of the all-time gasser greats....


No ID on this one...anyone? ID'ed by brobert2: Bob Pavioni out of Albuquerque, NM.


Jerry Ruth, from Washington state


The middle guy on the signboard is still at it....lot of weight on the front axle. Steve Plueger is also still at it, thanks to misgis for the reminder.


No ID, anyone??


Not in motion anymore....


These guys were runners for decades...one of the cars you never forgot it you got to see it run...blown or unblown, the exhaust note was unique....


Fremont, no ID


Oops.....Fremont

 

392 powered weedeater.

 

Could be a Fuel Powered 392 weedeater, maybe he got some oil on the tires ?

 

Could have been, Don, car is trailing a lot of smoke....

 

Rolind's fueler was one of the best looking & running cars from the great days of drag racing !!!!!!!!

 

Dean--and anyone else that may know.
I'm a few years too young to know about this car during it's heyday, curious if you know the story on it, was this a Logghe "shop car ".
After I submitted my previous post about being ahead of it's time, and looking at that picture; it made me wonder if it had been photoshopped (I don't think so).
As cool as the car is, the enclosed canopy just seems to have a "modern" look about it.
Any thoughts or knowledge about it's history.

 

Denny, It was ahead of its time (though Weekly and Rivero had a similar M/R with an enclosed cockpit)...Bergler was a master tinsmith who did build bodies for some of the Logghe cars, but don't know if this was a "shop" car or not...here are another couple of photos of Bergler's "More Aggravation" from Don Ewald's site:

 

Like the rear engine dragster that Garlits did not invent, Don Schumacher did not invent the enclosed canopy.

I believe Al Bergler did tin work for Logghe in exchange for chassis from them.

 

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The middle guy on the signboard is still at it....lot of weight on the front axle
So is the bottom one (Steve Plueger)

 

My contribution to this amazing thread Maybe someone coul ID it?

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Taildragger&fenderless

 

I don't have an ID, but the roll cage and clothing look modern.

 

Dean, thanks for the 'come back'.
GF

 

That engine looks like a 'modern day flathead'. Back in the day I couldn't keep a crank in one very long, unblown on gas w/ 8 1/2 to 9 CR. Should have used a torque wrench I guess.