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

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Yup............

 

"Wild Bill Shrewsberry üse to do a similar thing with the LA Dart when he would come back up the track after a run. He'd stand through the windscreen blipping the throttle and one night in Mackay, Queensland he came back a bit too fast. This saw him go right past the startline, through the burnout box and into the pits - fortunately he didn't hit anyone but it was a sight to see.

 

If my sources are right, that's Larry Reyes up. I'm thinkin' the car was brand new, first pass.

 

I think that's Larry Reyes up and the cars first pass.

 

Holy Crap! Awesome picture.

 

If remember right, one of the big magazines, Hot Rod, Car Craft, etc. had a sequence of shot of that wreck. Maybe my mind's playin' tricks on me, I don't know.

 

It was Car Craft. I have it somwhere but haven't found it yet.

 

couple more Hawaiian's

 

Total shame.

 

It looks like the rear roll bar upright is broken in this photo. May be an illusion but it sure looks like it ends.

 

Boy I would love to find this body laying around somewhere!!!!

 

Sorry to be so late on this..if you want the best 1/25 '92 get the Miss Deal Stude!!!

Cap

 

I think that's the beginning of the padding.

 

Just look at the violence in this photo....makes your heart speed up.

 

everytime i look at this shot i cring...and find more carnage.....like the injector hat is rotating, and part of the wheel is gone.....on and on...wow

 

Holy crap!!!

 

The car was real squirly all day and Larry didn't really want to lean on it. If you notice the car didn't have any kind of spoiler and the ass end kited. if you look in photo 2 above the front fender tripped the lights. Larry did walk away from the car and the ambulance left shortly after. My dad was concerned and hauled him off the hospitol. They waited along time and finally said screw it and went back to the track. This was about the time the funny cars started going around 200. Alot of the problems involved the front tires. They could not hold up to the speed and added down force the raked cars produced. Unforttanatly it claimed quite a few lives.

 

Roland told me that Chrysler assured him the "Charger 500" body would work fine at those speeds, as the flush grille body with revised rear window had been run at test tracks and in the tunnel for NASCAR. That's the reason the car had no additional rear spoiler added. With the front spoiler and the lightweight of the car (about half of a NASCAR) the thing obviously took off like an airplane, the car wasn't rebuilt. A completely new "mini-Charger" was created by Logghe Bros. and it won four races first time out with white shoeshine lettering!

 

With lots of help from "Big John" Mazmanian.

 

Yeah, I remember my dad saying something about that. The chrysler guys were there that day I think?

 

Dang! The stories and the pictures you guys come up with!

All I can say is "Far Outttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!

Thanks again Royal Shifter and the many,many others who have contributed.

Keep'm coming guys!

Your time and information are greatly appreciated!

Gary aka 1940 Willys Coupe
From Deep In the Heart of Texas

 

This pic exemplifies how inadequate that chassis/roll cage was to protect the driver. Even his arm is up. This wreck could have easily killed him. Funny car chassis changed radically in the next 2 years to more of a dragster style cage, narrower rails with having the headers outside of the frame which remains to this day. Very glad he survived this awful wreck.
This may also be why drivers with cars this quick are required to make checkout passes first with a new or unfamilair car.

Steve

Hosting- 8th annual Nostalgic Show & Go! March 27-28, 2010 Phoenix
www.nostalgicshowandgo.org

 

This thing looks fricking cool! as does the Plymouth in the background.

 

Geezus,I'm about to wet my pants.
If this thread was any better,I don't know if I could stand it.
Thank you all very much!!!!!!!

 

Right after I got done putting it together for the guy that found it in Hawaii and firing it up for the first time.





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