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

Kelly Brown. He raced a plethora of drag cars and was active on the local SCCA circuit. He was a Hollywood Stunt Driver too.

 

Saturday morning tune up run. That's "Wild" Rose Ggenuso in Tom's roadster.

 

Just a few guys in the stands and the morning fog is burning off. Heaven.

 

Ahh, Fremont back in the day. Looks like 60-63?

 

Does this looked Photoshopped, or is it just me?

 

Looks real to me. FEDs did that easily and often in those days.

 

I think not. Refer to post #2 of this thread. Slim

 

That is not photoshoped its just a really good picture of the car.

 

He is full throttle with the butterflies almost closed???

 

That photo has been around for 45 years looking just like that.
A somewhat wide angle lens makes the car slightly distorted, but that photo is real.
And Skip, this photo, no doubt, was taken at the split-second when the driver got out of it because of the wheelstand, but there still was power to the wheels. As you know, there's a fraction of a second that a photo like this with the butterflies almost closed is possible.
Thats at Lions in about 1965-66...the pinnacle of drag racing

 

Here is another funny car from Michigan. Trying to find more pictures.

 

More wheels up action.

 

He might be in the process of letting off a tad to bring the front wheels down. Could explain why they are part-throttle like that. "Driving through" the wheelie, if you will.

Edit: What Doug said.

 

TJ, you need to get or borrow the 3 disc Lions dragstrip DVD set. Wheelstands were quite common there.
HG

 

That's MickeyThompson's twin Pintiac which Jack Chrisman took on tour in '62. I have 2 shots I took of it at York US30.

 

That's "Stormin" Norman Weekly at Pomona. The frantic Four car left like that more often that not, and Norman never lifted. The Chevy pst truck in the back ground is the one they use today at cacklefests.

 

Jerod,
Any early pictures of Dyno Don's early S/S cars with Jardine Headers? Late '50's-very early sixties? Would love to have you and your father post some on the S/S-F/X thread.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=247089&highlight=super+stock+1962
Joel

 

Man check out Paul Aray's Maverick in the other lane. Looks like a rear end went out

 

thanks eddy