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

"Brave Speedlove"

Roo

 

Interesting car, longer wheelbase chassis research ?
Any more photos please ?,
a side view ?
Thanks,david

 

Lions top fuel pits


Bolk & Grind coupe, San Luis Obispo


Model A body, altered class, San Luis Obispo


running a blown something, can't see


No ID on either, or the place...this is really early drag racing


If you ever raced here, you never forgot it, well run, fair racing, only issue was getting stopped before the Foothill bridge...this might be George Boltoff in the Chrysler car


No ID


Colton (this picture might have been posted before, maybe on the HAMB, need to give the owner credit)...in '55 the SCTA held at least one meet at Colton, this might be a later '56 meet). Colton was a very short strip with an uphill gravel shutoff and a very pitted return road...old airfield (Morrow Field)


Fuller built Magic car, Winkle & Trapp, Jeep Hampshire driving, looks like San Fernando


Caption is Don Wilbur, maybe in the Pacific Northwest?


Danny Ongais' first dragster ride...


No ID


Jack Hart's coupe at Santa Ana, cool chopped Ford pickup in rear


Not sure why the whole Malone family is on the cover?


Jr fueler at Lions


The Twisters Car Club entry at Santa Ana, from nearby Vista, CA...this might have been an old modified converted to a dragster?


Later Hart's Automotive coupe, at Santa Ana


Worn-out track roadsters sometimes got a second life as drag roadsters.

 

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Two Texas cars, not sure where this is...Bobby Knighton was well known in Texas and beyond, this car was a runner (from blackrat40, probably Caddo Mills, classic Texas drag strip now closed...though the runways are still there, see below.)

This is Six Flags Dragway in Victoria, TX.

 

Tommy, do you know where this pic was taken? There was a vette body I saw a few years ago with the wheel openings hacked up like that vette in the background.

 

Sorry I don't. I'll check around though.

 

We don't really have many specs on the car, working on that though. Mostly just had pictures to go by. Trying to bug the folks from the glory days that might remember specific details about it. As for the pics, we do have more. I'm wondering if I need to post more here, or would it be better to create an album?

 

Yes post up more please.

 

In motion in the wind tunnel

 

US 30.

 

Should be able to post some tomorrow.

 

After browsing through the pics, I see we don't really have a perfect side view shot.
Here are a couple beginning pics.

 

And here are a couple of it's first stage.



From Neita Raceway August 7, 1966.

 

And a couple from it's modification to Yipes Stripes.



And Dad with completed Yipes. We don't have a picture of his friend Steve Krachum standing with it, wish we did.