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

Bobby Allen of Glidden @ Allen. I believe it had a Cammer in it at a later date. Bobby ran the paint shop at Ed Martin Ford.

 

Bobby Allen. Thunderbolt Jr.

 

Yes, Big Mike Burkhardt from Dallas at Green Valley Raceway.

 

there was 2 chevy IIs, a post and hardtop

 

Heck no man.
I loved this shot.

I have flyrods, a bike and dreams of Bandiliere speedway just waiting for the winter chill to abate.

 

Speed Sport from Ariz. ?
I believe it was some sort of compressed air and hydrogen setup maybe '62/'63

 

I don't remember it with a cammer, but I remember there was considerable head scratching in the local community as to how there were able to stuff a 427 in it without altering the firewall which, as memory serves me, was a nono to be legal in modified production.

 

Bet your right about the Cammer.

 

Chuck Kurzawa in the Logghe Brothers' AA/FD, Pomona 1969.

 

Gabby Bleeker's AA/FA, Indy 1968, upset Wild Willie for the class win. The other photo is the Rupp Steffey Logghe Prussian AA/FD.

 

Ray DeNoble in Lou Smith's Probe, looks like Detroit Dragway around '64. Can't tell who is in the other lane but it's a Logghe chassis (with a blown non-hemi???).

 

Al Bergler's AA/C, Pomona 1967. Won Best Appearing Car.

 

Rich Soroonian in his Uncle John's 'Cuda, OCIR 1971....and no, he didn't hit the tree.

 

Pomona, March '57...these guys were the hottest SoCal fuelers at the time...Cook & Bedwell running the Scotty Fenn chassis...Cook would later run 166 at Lion's, ushering in the fuel ban that lasted for years.



Santa Ana, this is what a gasser looked like in the mid to late '50s


Another shot of Dusty Rhodes Fuller-chassised fueler...this thing was first-class in a lot of ways



Fisher & Greth at Pomona...this is pre-slipper clutches, so this run shows driver talent in letting the clutch out just enough to haze the tires...notice the old orange storage shed in the background, long since gone...


Kalitta at the NHRA Nationals, overhead cam Ford


GMC powered dragster at Santa Ana...pretty minimal but at least it had Halibrand mag wheels

More Pomona, fuel modified roadster...is this Ed Taylor's car?


street roadster, Sanford, Maine, '50s...these guys had a short racing season, but the track drew cars from all over New England...


More Sanford ME...no ID on dragster...kind of cool to have the trophies right by the starting line


Chassis Research TE-440 -- late '50s...and the classic Speed Sport injector scoop -- no tire smoke, either it bogged or the driver is really foot-slipping the clutch...


More Sanford...back in the days when you drove your car, raced it, and drove back home...late '50s

 

Is that PeeWee Whitaker's We Haul Special?

 

Pretty sure it is.