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

Discussion in 'Traditional Hot Rods' started by Royalshifter, Dec 12, 2007.

  1. 296ardun
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    After the Garlits back-motored car won the '71 Winternationals, the slingshot was pretty well doomed, but some guys tried wings to extend their lives.

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    Haven't seen this picture of Tony Nancy's blown Buick before...interesting that the developer of the "race mask" isn't wearing one...hard to find anyone who built cleaner cars...Fuller did the chassis

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    Another from the George Klass collection...anyone know whose car this is? Looks like "Tommy Parker" on the roof but I can't see it that well...obviously Garlits built it...the only thing I remember about it was that it was on the trailer following Garlits and the Swamp Rat to a meet in Georgia (?). Suddenly a tire blew out on the Swamp Rat trailer and tow car, trailer, and Swamp Rat would up in...a swamp. As Garlits tried to get the trailer reattached in the swamp he realized that he was surrounded by snakes...but the guy who owned this Bantam hooked his truck and trailer to the stranded Swamp Rat and managed to pull them out....I heard this story 50 years ago so probably got some of it wrong...anyone else know?

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    The Jack Chrisman driven, Mickey Thompson owned twin Pontiac small aluminum block Dragmaster...I think this is at Lions

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    M&R....Roger "Riceman" Lee has masterfully recreated this car, perfect down to the last detail.

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  2. There's a video on YouTube where Garlits talks about the Suburban going into the swamp. I laughed about how he tells the story but, I wouldn't have wanted to be in his situation!


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  3. DaveyJonez
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    ALLLRIGHTTT!!!: That's my dads A/Fuel Altered. Rarely photographed w/ the grill shell as it would bend backword at 170 and my dad was afraid it would smack his driver in the grill!!
    Thanks for posting, great shot of that car- I sure wish he had kept that one!!
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    Looking for missing history on this 1964 Savoy Stage III lightweight. The car campaigned in Texas possibly under the name Aggravation and was owned by a guy name Roland from Pasadena, TX. It has just over 1,500 miles on the odometer so it has had MANY passes on the car. It may have migrated from San Antonio as it was delivered new to Jack Rieger Chrysler Plymouth. The NHRA number was 4945 and it was a division 4 car. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    I posted a couple videos of interviews with Don Garlits up a few posts, real early in the second video of the interview with Don & Pat, they talk about when their pickup & dragster went into the swamp.
     
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    The Hot Rod Story Drag Racing
    Drag racing in 1965
     
  7. 296ardun
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    more, some from the George Klass collection:

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    Jack Chrisman-driven...I think that this used to be Ed Losinski's dragster, built in the early '50s...later it was converted to slingshot style...not sure whose that Potvin-blown motor is. Colton was a laid-back fun place to race, but the shutoff was really short, if you didn't get stopped at the end of the track you went up and over a small hill into a cemetery. The former drag strip is now part of a Sam Sneed golf course.

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    I've never seen this picture of Garlit's car before...front axle looks like a piece of square tubing...later he ran a beam axle...anybody know more?

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    I have no idea whose blown six (Jimmy?) this is...the track looks very much like San Gabriel...note the Dragmaster car and their woody wagon in the background...also looks like Jr. Thompson's Stude gasser in the rear...

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    off the Lion's Facebook page

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    Lefty in the near lane, anything for more bite...I believe that that is Bruce Woodcock in the Raker's Car Club racing Lefty...I saw the last run Bruce made when he was racing Don Yates in Dick Goss's car, left the track, stayed on it and flipped, ultimately hitting a light generator, with fatal results. He was just 22.

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    Bobby Tapia...
     
  8. jaytee
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  9. All great stuff, thanks to everyone who puts a picture up...
     
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    No caption necessary but just have to say LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Thanks Muttley for sharing your great collection of memories.

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    Thanks for the info, Jaytee...Don was in the limelight so much that we sometimes forget his brother Ed, a year younger...I remember Ed running a gas-burning Buick, but forgot this car...here it is with a V8-60 axle at Lions:

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    This rear engine modified roadster photo came off George Klass's site...very radical for the day, looked sort of familiar:

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    So off to Don Ewald's site, looking for the Ed Garlits above, and found these, along with the caption from Doyle Hatfield...story is tragic but it is a part of our history:

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    here is the caption:

    shots of a rear-engined roadster that was inspired somewhat by Holly Hedrich and the Speed Sport guys. My brother and I met Ed Lenarth when he was hanging out at Torrance Airport, where we had a Piper Cub (another long, convoluted story!). My brother was building the body for the car in the shots when we helped Ed while he was running the "Californian" A/F Roadster (Manuel Gonzales owned it). We were on the return road at Lions when Boyd Pennington crashed and were first over the fence to try to render aid. What a bad and sad feeling. If Boyd had come over or through the fence, this activity between us might not be now ongoing. My brother was in the "Californian", steering back to the pits and dropped down into the seat for protection. He still caught a small rock on the forehead, which gave him a cut. I was in the back seat of the push car, looking for a place to hide and to this day the image of that fueler showing through the cloud of dust from the lights behind it is indelibly imprinted. The car was standing on nose, but about 20 to 30 feet in the air. An awesome but awful experience. Anyway, to the point of all this. This is of an A/F Modified Roadster, rear-engine Chrysler, 180 inch wheelbase. The canopy was not really that hard to see out of, but if you had claustrophobia, forget it. The car only ran a few times, setting strip records when it ran. No paint was ever applied (short life of the car). It was crashed and destroyed at Long Beach (I believe) while being driven by a someone who was unfamiliar with the car."

    Commentray and Photos by Doyle Hatfiled
    PS. Construction on the car started sometime in late 1963. These pix were shot in late November, 1964, and then it was crashed in early 1965. By the way, my brother says it did a silver paint job.
     
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    Back by popular demand and fresh from their world tour of the internet Casa De Muttley is proud to present the sequal without equal...........It Came From The Vault Part II:

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