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

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Gabe I think you are right on that !! I knew he way crazy and I'm saying that in a good way but this picture comfirmed it for me !

 

Are you kidding me? Can't find a thread with 107thousand posts? 33million views? You don't want to take any effort to search for it yourself? Make me cranky.....

 

You wasted enough of your time pissing to tell me the real name of the thread!

 

And you STILL can't find it! I love it.....

 

Yes, I found it last night. No thanks to you. Have a nice life.

 

This is Larry's. ..that is good to know thank you I wonder when this picture was taken I was over Larry's a lot growing up and I dont remember it

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Afan how did you know that ?

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I think the car racing the Greek at Lions is GBP running a Hilborn 'bug catcher' instead of the 'four holer' and scoop. I think.

 

Cook and Bedwell - 1957 Cordova World Series

 

Love Lund and Hay Rockford, Illinois Top Fuel Team

 

I posted this dragster that my dad drove on my thread . I didn't know much history about it until one of the guys told me . It belonged to Warren, Coburn, & Miller and they had 2 cars the 1st pic 1964 is the frame of one of the dragsters we think my dad helped built. The 2nd car around 1968 with my mom pregnant with me in the background is the one he raced for awhile . I don't know if he drove the 1st one he help with building .

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Michelle, your father certainly passed away with memories. It appears most of his dreams probably came true.

Great photographs, thank you for sharing.

 

That's Long Beach "Lions", not San Fernando.

 

Just got back from the Middle East, and just found this. The nose on this car was from a car that Hippo Brammer built prior to the car he built with Tom Poindexter. It was a SPE car, painted "Hippo pink," running a late Desoto and later a blown Chrysler with a Hilborn 4-port. Bill Alexander sometimes drove. After Hippo ran out of money he sold me the nose from the car, which Willy Sutton built. I had wanted Willy to build the body on my car, but couldn't afford his fees (which he showed me why they were high by giving me a piece of aluminum to run through an English roller, which I wadded up into a ball).

 

Yeah one of the guys told me thanx

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I will have see if he knows why the hippo car is yellow here in Indy when my dad raced it . I seen one of his dragsters were red maybe they repainted the yellow one

 

Finally back from the Middle East, here are a couple from George Klass:


Tennessee Boll Weevil -- Raymond Godman was paralyzed from a sniper's bullet in Korea, but that didn't stop him from building some of the fastests modified roadsters in the country...I think that this is the '57 NHRA Nationals. Preston Davis usually drove, but don't remember if he was driving at this meet. Raymond Dyer also drove the Boll Weevil.


Mackey & Veselka, from Texas. They ran a really well built tube space frame chassis on this car, seen here running a Bantam body. Later they took off the body and ran it as a dragster.


Westerberger & Bill, well built modified roadster


Bob Hankin's Blue Blazer at OCIR


Dave Hough, after a blown Chrysler replaced the blown Olds...still a steel body in this shot


Fremont


Paradise Mesa, very early '50s...before slicks, some guys tried dual rears...