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

So, ever since I saw this photo, Ive been wondering how they got in the car...haha am I missing something...

 

good question, I'm guessing through the window...

 

RIP Carol Shelby.

 

R.I.P. Carroll Shelby

 

C'mon Muttley, help a guy out, you got any pics of the "Super Karrot"? I need some pics for my future build of the little injected orange car.

 

Super Carrot is on the Awful Awful fuel altred site. But not up close.

 

Lets see: Bomber Jacket-check; Open face helmit equipped with plastic bubble face shield-check; Seat belt tightened-check. Lets go boys!

 

Looks like the door will still swing open judging by the size of the hole around the header tube.

 

Sorry.............checked my files, I got nothin'.

 

James..found this photo some time ago. looks like irwindale most likely 1968 or 1969
Is the the car and time frame you are looking for? i might suggest you contact Steve Reyes he has 2 great photos of this version of Bad news.

you can contact him @ www.reyesontiour.com

 

LOL, yea I see the resmblence too, now that you ention it.

 

Not trying to be a Dick but can you upload the picture to this site? Me and I'm sure others are not going to want to download an unknown to our computer.

 

Indeed. As tempting as it is to open it, I need a virus like I need another hole in my head.

 

Here it is again. I thought it was a jpeg to begin with.

Anyone ID the 82 car in the near lane?

 

Car #82 is the Beebe Bros & Sixt Car but after the car received it's RCS front half. John Mulligan is in the seat for this run. later half of 1967.

~RM

 

Car in the other lane at OCIR is Tony Waters, perhaps with Mike Sorokin driving.

Pretty sure this is the car Mike lost his life in.

-jim

 

That makes sense. I noticed it has the extra tubing at the front of the rollcage just as the later green striped Beebe and Mulligan car and wondered if there was a connection. Thanks!

 

Your probably right. Sorokin lost his life at OCIR and I believe it was in 67.

This photo is kinda ironic as both great drivers would eventually lose there life in a rail.

 

And it was clutch failure their took their lives. The advent of the slipper clutch significantly increased clutch explosions.

 

John Mulligan survived his burns for a while. AJ Foyt offered his private plane to send him to any hospital he wanted to go to, but the family declined. If his hospital was more educated about the dangers of infections in burn victims, he very easily would have survived. What killed him was given to him at the hospital.

My understanding, anyway.

Mike's injuries were not survivable. I think the clutch sawed the car in half and additionally the rear end spun in the car, which is probably fatal in the front engine cars of the era.

Historically correct additional info is welcome. I want to be correct in history and not regurgitate incorrectness. I've been into this since 1964, mostly via magazines as a kid, and I find it irksome when modern writers gets their facts wrong, and they all do it all the time.

-jim

I recall some drag movie from the 70's where Ed Pink describes John's accident in every grisly detail. Made it sound like a blowtorch right in the face. Poor John. There's also a touching pic of John BS'ing with Tommy Ivo in the staging lanes possibly minutes prior to their match up. (I think it was qualifying and Tom was in the other lane?)