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

I'd always thought that the C&B car showed up with a new owner running a flathead, with the full body, somewhere in the middle of the country. As I recall it was white, or some light color. I can't find a picture of the car I'm talking about though.
Joel

 

Joel, that's the story I remember too, it wound up in Kansas with a flathead, but somehow the name "Myer" or "Meyer" was involved in it. It was either white or yellow. I wonder if "Myer" or "Meyer" might have partnered with Tom Hanna (later of race car body fame) to run a Chrysler in it, or use its remains in the car in the photo?? Anyone else remember?

 

Here is another photo from Don Ewald's site with commentary from Tom Hanna:

"This is Jim Meyers 3rd. iteration after the Cook and Bedwell car (the 2nd. it had crashed off the end of Union Grove) and his last unblown fueler. 100% nitro with two tablespoons of benzol. I built perhaps a 3rd of this one and drove it for a season or so. Later Terry Dean and Tom Elliott took turn driving depending who could get off work. That's Terry Dean wrenching and Jim Meyer behind him in the Isky shirt. Dean was a fantastic painter. Always drove the coolest car in our high school parking lot. Think we got the motor mounts stout enough?" Dave Dewars photo and commentary by Tom Hanna

But I still remember the C&B car as you do, flathead powered in Kansas...so not sure what to make of this picture and caption

 

I must admit some of the old dragsters really looked kind of scary to drive.

Those skinny rear drag slicks must have really lid up very easy back in those day's.

Jimbo

 

296,
Thank you!

 

From Hot Rod Magazine archives:

 

Does anyone have any action pics of this car from back in the late 60's to early 70's ?

 

Drag cars in motion, like the header say's.



Pat

 

Joel, this picture just showed up on Don Ewald's site "from the beginning." This is the car that you and I remember as the old Cook & Bedwell car, flathead powered.

 

can anyone id the white slingshot 14.02 in

 

That's the car ... thanks for posting it.
Joel

<<Joel, this picture just showed up on Don Ewald's site "from the beginning." This is the car that you and I remember as the old Cook & Bedwell car, flathead powered.

 

Niagara Dragstrip

 

Got to love that "one hand on the wheel Willie"!

 

Some more shots from the George Klass collection:



As the caption says. I remember this car, the front axle was mounted to the frame with rocker arms attached to small coil springs, back when the sanctioning bodies demanded that the front end be sprung. I think that this was the car (called "Gangrene" by Joe Purcell as it was painted a green/gold metalflake) that he drove off the end at Pomona, resulting in a broken arm.

 

Butters & Girard, caption is correct except that at San Gabriel in 1958 the car would have been on gas as the fuel ban was in effect then. These guys did go on to run several fuelers, though.

 

Spelling is incorrect on Dave's name, it is Gerard. He is still involved in that he does the results from Bakersfield on Drag Race Central.

Roo

 

Love this shot. Back when the packing house was still in business. Sundays at Pomona in the late 50's was heaven!

 

Thanks for the correction, Roo, with one error in the caption already, I should have checked...glad he is still around, because if he was involved in the original Groh's Texico-sponsored drag cars, they go back to the mid-50s. Not many of us can say we were involved in drag racing for around 60 years!

 

It was, when I first went there in '57, the pump house at the end of the track was still there, when I first raced there in '62, it was gone but the packing houses and some of the water wells were still there. The pits were paved, the food was decent, and it was well managed. It's hard to look at it now given how much of the old place (including the cedar trees along the road side) is now gone.

 

Yep, a buck to get in, 50 cents for a pit pass, and another buck fifty got you a hot dog and a coke. Fun all day for 3 bucks. Tell me those weren't the days!

 

I used to watch the welder run that MG back in the mid 60's at Dover and he was always a real crowd favorite.

He must have hundreds of runs on that car.

Jimbo

 

Yeah, it was fun even when I was working there. Front chutes were a kick, got to meet a boatload of people. Watching the rails come by from back chutes ( a miracle some didn't crash into the telephone poles ) Just being there was exciting to a 16 yr old, and I was getting paid for it too.

 

Some street roadsters from George Klass:

 

Tommy Ivo. Yes, it's Ivo. I forgot most of the story, but Ivo built this roach on purpose to get back at those who protested his immaculate T roadster. Note the torch-cut holes, the racoon tails, and the ax buried in the decklid. This was 1957.

 

Winternationals, not sure what year. Roadster is Tom McMullin, and I think the coupe is Charles "Boogie" Scott from New Orleans, before his Bantam bodied altered (maybe the same car with a different body??)

 

Paradise Mesa?