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

This is the car Jim won INDY in

 

The Original Hollish Bros. Coupe

 

Nice group of photos,Rob.Really like the Stude,probably had a half dozen of those.

 

1966,year of the Red Car,Back in Black for 1967.1966 only non black year as far as I know and that ain't much.

 

Thanks, I have a stude right now. I swear I'll finish it .....someday!

 

Big Daddy had a blue car, too.

 

blue and white swamp rat 24 77 till 79 car never actually had a major sponsor cause he put the cross on it with the words God is love

swamp rat 27 with the engine turned sideways was blue

and swamp rat 28 with a turbine engine was blue

 

Here's A BUNCH of old pics
http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=133200&subForumID=502117&p=2

 

I'm not sure on these 8x10's. They take forever to scan.

I'm going to try some slides. I never did them on the new scanner.

Plum

 

Wow, never knew of the Sidewinder or the turbine.How did they run, comparatively to the others of the day??

 

I Guess the concept of the sidewinder car was to use the engines torque to help plant the rear tires. The amount of parasitic draw/power loss from the drive setup overcame any benefit the torque may have given.

 

He had a lot of breakage with the drive on the sidewinder. I never saw the turbine run. JC

 

plum

 

I think it was in the late 80's early 90's I was at the Winternational. While sitting in the stands I was talking to the guy next to me about the old days at Irwindale and San Gabriel. The conversation got around to oddball cars. Of course the Terrible Toronado came up and I said something like " Some idiot drove that thing over the gaured rail at Irwindale" Well the guy I was talking to said " That idiot was me". It took me a couple of minutes to continue the conversation after that come back

 

Hmmm...been there, done that!

 

The GOOD OLD DAYS.

Plum

 

Heres some of mine in motion

 

What a great lineup, Pat (Verminator) is a good buddy of mine, and I always dug your Nova, and I'm not even a Chevy guy! I'd love to see more, maybe some more wheels-up shots!

 

Here's one of my fathers car WITH THE FIRST SET OF lettering.

 

TESTING

Plum

 

I recall going to Irwindale to see that car. The races were being promoted (as they always were) in the Friday edition of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. You dad's Camaro, the Super Chief, Steve Bovan, Ray Alley and a host of others were depicted in the sports section. It was one of the first to have cracked 200 MPH. I think Isky ran the car in an ad or two as well