heres three of mine, one of a friend's . Sr Dragster (for old people) and Gettin Vicious named by a fellow racer. The Midnight Mirada is so named because as a long haul trucker he often got to his shop late a night and worked on it all night at the end of a run, The Jeep altered with the 5.7Hemi is already the HEEP which will stay .
Factory racer Lucy Belows had a A/S 69' mustang "Lucy's Larceny" and a Guy that I worked with at a Gold mining operation built a Super Gas Camaro called "Miner Operation"
Here's a few I've saved from the HAMB. Mind Binder was supposed to Mind Bender? Hamber Vic Young's Bad News He gets crazy eyes when he gets behind the wheel! and one of my favorites "Headhunter"
Heres a couple of CANADIAN Racer names from days gone by, Barrie POOLES - BORDER BANDIT. Ford sponsored Gord COATES - COATES HANGER. Mopar. ???? - NORTHERN LIGHT. Mopar. ???? -NORTHERN CHARGER. Mopar
I was into Pontiac's in the early 60s so... The Tin Indian and Arapaho The automatic AFXer Mopar... Mr. Buttons
the wife came out of the house, took one look at my S/P vega, just back from the paint shop and yells "we don't have money for grocerys" and waalaa "Grocery Money" was born. i'll see if i can get a picture up. later matt
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/2559856598_01d6051bec.jpg?v=0 "Screaming Yellow Honker" "Yellow Submarine" Had a buddy who had a '55 Chevy named "Fat Chance"
Here is a few Chicago area favorites Chizler-Chris karamesines dragster Stardust-Don Shoemaker's funny cars Sparticus- Al DeSalvo 64 ss dodge Lil Screamer-Jack ditmars 34 ford altered Drastic Plastic-Tom Motry's fuel altered and funny car Shake Rattle and Run- C/gas '57 chevy Chi town hustler- Pat minic's funny cars Mr Norms Super Charger- funny car driven by Gary Dyer No Big Thing- big block chevy powered Vespa
The one car that I really remember from when my dad took me to Lion's drag strip at around age 8 was a green Henry J named "International Super Pickle".......I wish I could find some pictures of that car. I tried Googling those words, but got too many hits. Awesome name, and it had a picture of big mean green pickle with slicks, doing a burnout on the side of the car.....if I remember correctly.
My '57 Pontiac gasser was "Chief Rolling Thunder" Street/strip Morris Minor is "Son of Godzilla" '58 Anglia gasser was the "BTU" (British Thermal Unit) All by Gosson Bros. Came on this thread shopping for name ideas for the latest project - good stuff here. Scotty
We had several named "The Red Witch". All of them had a very naked gal riding on a camshaft very fast. Of course then we had the Gizzle Hopper.
Some names of cars that come to mind... "The Red Bullet" "Jack The Ripper" "In-Bomber" "Locomotion" "About Time" "Lucille" "Stampede" "Black Ace" "Candy Stripper" "Gas Chamber" "Flashback" "Flintstone Charger" "Good-In-Tension" "Tokyo Rose" "Tension" "Snoopy" "Snakebite" "king Cobra" "Northwind" "Witchcraft" "Overtaker" "Bad Banana" "Goofy Grape" "Old Reliable" "Chevy Duster" "Mechanical Motion" "Chinese Bandit" -Dean
Oh yeah, Broadway Freddy DeName, a real Mobster, no shit! Heard some crazy stories about him and he was also in a book called "Murder Machine" http://www.dragracingonline.com/special/freddy_1.html
Do you have any pictures of the Anglia from Oswego. If so love to see them. There was another one out there called Short & Sweet. Cant wait to see a shot of that. Good luck with the car
Being of Scot heritage I ran under the name "The Highlander". The seat had imported wool in the clan tartan pattern and the back of the spoiler said "UP YOUR...KILT!". Car was green with gold pearl. If I can from here I'll add pics to this response later.
Another 5 STAR thread! What an interesting subject, but very relevent. There is also the lament of the demise of "hand lettering" on racecars. Handlettering always had the "snap" or a certain look to it. Hard to describe, it usually carried the soul of it's renderer. In capable hands a good lettering job literally "made" the image of the car along with it's paint and ET's. On another thread here on the HAMB about Funny Cars, I was interested in the fact that many of the ressurected Funny Cars are so poorly lettered. The paint scheme and lettering make the "show"! Computerized aided lettering although do-able in capable hands just doesn't have that "flow". It's too stiff and I won't get started on body wraps. The thing is, many, many of the sign artists that lettered and captured our attention from the 60's, 70's and early 80's are still around. Older, wiser but, they still got the touch. Back to the subject of names on racecars, here's my very first lettering job. Joe Nawrot's '56 Chevy "When you HOT, you HOT" leaving the lights at US 30 Dragstrip in July of 1971. Sheesh, I was so proud and excited when I snapped this pic. Looking back, UGH!!!!!!! Joel
An old timer friend of mine told me that there was a 65 Merc Comet 4 door gasser that raced locally around the Dayton area in the late 60's. It was called Comet Mini Doors
A couple I remember over the years... The Blue Max- Funny Car Black Magic- Funny Car Jade Grenade- ? Hairy Canary- I forget but I think it was a willys coupe. Green Mamba- Jet car Quarter Pounder- Early model box Nova- Jersey area Temptation- 55 Chevy Pro Gasser from So.Cal Super Pumpkin - 57 Chevy from NY Teachers Pet- Jerry Stein's 64 Plymouth Fighting Irish- Flake Green 40 Chevy out of NJ There are just so many.
Quarter panel shot of "Vibrations" '68 Camaro show and strip car! Quarter panel of '57 Chevy legend "Shake, Rattle & Run" from '79 or '80! Enjoy, Joel
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