Neighbor's Complaint mopar was a regular at Maple Grove. So was Joe Slick and Joe Cool - both '60s Camaros. Saw Hemi-Roid somewhere. Joe Jacono's Rollin' Stone FC was a favorite. Frantic Ford digger and FC. Altered States - several of those. Beast from the East - comp dragster. Under Pressure - several of those also. Penny Pincher FC - had pennies airbrushed on the birdcatcher butterflys. Boston Srangler - loved the innovative Carp-erators. Hemi Hunter.
this one ran Ct.Dragway 60-69 another car I remember was "Rambuncious"(spelling?) was a Dodge Funny "Mystery 4" a 63 Chevy II with a real hot 4 also a Ct.Dragway car a friends Vega "Final Round Bound" My Car "the Scrap Iron Special" another was "ole Scatter Bolts" A yellow Fiat Altered "Mighty Mouse" An Anglia Al Padrone Plymouth gasser "Mayflower " purple Anglia?" "Grape Ape" 57 Ford "Freigh Train"
When I was at OCIR,my friends dad introduced us to this HUGE Hawiian,maybe Samoan,guy that ran the "Quarterbender" Funnycar. He told my friend to give him a quarter. He took it and bent it in his hand,between his thumb and index finger! I think my friend still has the quarter! Anybody else remember this car or guy?
I have always named my racers. My present fuel bike is Pipedreams and the ProStocker is Money for Nuthin. A couple of cool car names that I always remembered from my Minnesota Dragways days was the Velvet Hammer and Cold Steel.
"Eager Beaver" That was Jerry and Terra Kratley's Dodge Challenger bracket Funny Car from Colorado Springs, nice people, she was a pretty good driver too.
"Wallet Wrecker" was a '55 Chevy raced by (I believe)Jimmy Fowler from Lubbock, Tx. at area Div. 4 tracks... last I heard, he had a street rod....
When I was a 16, I remember a couple of cars named.... 67 chevelle "Hungry Bull"(it was also the first car I saw pull the front wheels off the ground), 69 GTO "Hangin Judge", 57 T-Bird "Passin Gas", a rail "Fuel Injected Insanity".....I had/have now "It isnt NESTLES but its Quik!!!" on the tail of my current ride(74 GTO), had "Orange Crush" on the back of my 76 Astre, had "She SHOW CAR, we dont run her" on the back of my 65 Fairlane(It was a rat rod before they were cool!), and my current project "A" will use Fuelish Pleasures, I saw it already mentioned...but I had lettered that on the back of a model 32 coupe when I was in my teens in the late 70s, also always liked the 70s vega funny car "Black Magic" logo it looked like it was coming from a genies lamp.
A couple of car that ran locally Chi-Town Hustler Mopar Moron Wyld stallion Cobra King Gentleman George Li'l Al Dirty Mean & Ugly ( Did not build it but owned it for awhale) Mighty Mouse, 1937 Fiet ( One of my club members own it) Wild Thing, 1948 Angila ( I built and ran) Miss Behaving Midnigh Express, 1955 Chevy Bits and Pieces
Two of my favorites: A Henry J powered by a Chrysler was known as the HEMI J An Anglia was the PRINCE OF WAILS
Can't believe no one has posted this one yet! I think that MCINK has about everybody covered. Great pics everyone!
I think I've seen at least twenty cars named Miss Behavin. Each guy thought it was original and he was the first.
'55 yellow Poncho named Two Ton Canary was run probably at Havana and Beardstown IL, the car was from Abingdon, IL and another I liked was a '62 Chevy, "Vulgar Display of Power"
Don't know about it being neat or not, but the name was fitting for a race car. I named a few of my cars Madness back in the late 60's, mid 70's. Here's one of them.
my sand funny car had "dad's dream" on the side of the hood..was a cj2a glass funny body..said "mom's nightmare" on the whole ass end the moms was really sweet grandma looking with the nightmare wrapping around it looking all evil...in prism paint...bumping up my life insurance was one of the requirments before it ever hit the strip..scared the hell out of my ex....the topo will have "LIL BEAST" on it somewhere..ass end probably........
Bill Drake's Austin gasser "Ol' Rumble Guts". Always thought it was a cool cowboy type name, like havin' a pony named Dogmeat.
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