Vintage shots from days gone by!

Crescent, OR

 

From one of the posts:
"the car broke a rear axle between the 4 and 5 miles. it is surmised that this caused the car to drastically experience unequal power distribution (my father, elmo gillette, was at the 5-mile when the crash occurred. he heard one of the engines suddenly rev, noel lift, then hammer the throttle again, which led many to believe that noel thought he'd hit a soft-spot on the salt and was just lifting when he thought it got loose.), which turned the flat-sided/topped streamliner into a wing when the car got sideways. at that point the belly pan and every-other body panel came off of the car, including a tire and wheel, which physically broke one of the timing lights at the 5 mile at a speed of 415 mph."

 

Wedderburn, OR

 

Aww come on Toody, you know I hate explaining things to the captain.


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Yeah what you looking at we are go Kart vandals in training.

 

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None other than Ed Donovan. Donovan and his partner Frank Startup started running this Top Fuel dragster. Apparently the car was a crowd pleaser but not as competitive as they had hoped. Supposedly, their best pass was a 8.36 @ 187 MPH in 1962. Maybe someone else here knows more about this car and can help out.

 

You livin' with the elephants?-------Shit!--- Try livin' under the freeway overpass!