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

Hartwell & Frontuto bought the car from Ed, kept the purple (really lavender) paint....and the steel body.

 

Dean are you talking about the car that my Mom is with that may have belonged to Hartwell in the pic above or another car on the thread ?

 

What magazine is this from and do you know who is racing ? I can't see the name on the side of the purple car who the owner was it won't let me zoom in . I see a white helmet in the pic my Dad's helmet was plain white until he had the money to have it customized to the purple Yogi helmet . I don't know how common plain white helmets were

 

South Glens Falls Dragway

 

Okay thank you I see you are talking about the purple car my Mom is in it didn't show it was a reply

 

Not aware of an inline twin for him - will add to TwoToGo if your sure??

 

Michelle,
the purple Fiat is the Joe Mondello car driven by Sush Matsubara. This is the second of the three Fiats that the team campaigned. This car (built by Roy Fjasted) was raced in the late 60's before being replaced with an Exhibition Engineering built car.

Roo

 

Okay sounds good . Thank you . Love the car

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Dean - this picture contributed to our TwoToGo web site from Tommy, a picture taken while he was on tour with his Twin.

 

I am not sure, but it would be a good guess -- because as Dean Lowe noted, Ed Taylor took the blown Olds out of the lavender Austin and put it in his modified roadster, and as this photo shows a Chrysler, I think it would be when Hartwell and Frontuto owned it....

 

Jack Williams, Rick Stewart later drove the car, but it back-halfed itself at Bakersfield...Rick was bruised but amazingly survived


Hayworth Head Hunters, early twin, Don Jensen drove...this looks like Vacaville or Cotati


Don Yates drove the Mikkleson Brothers car, to a questionable 9.44 in '55, later the car would get a tail and baby blue paint, and ran Bonneville.


Dean Lowrey at Colton, around '55. Pretty rare then to see a blown Chrysler.


Two veteran drag racers, Ollie Morris and Harold Dawson. Ollie would later run the "Smok'n White Owl" rear engined dragster, first with a flathead and then with Fred Offenhauser's Chev


This car made the pages of HRM, painted copper


Kenny Lindley's "Misfire"

 

Popular Hot Rodding May 1968

 

Funny Cars - I LIKE em!

 

Early Boyd Penington

 

Big Daddy with an open nose on swamp rat.

 

That is Don`s brother Ed

 

Truly classic.

 

Not sure quite why he is smiling, other than he may be the survivor.

 

Ohio's Blue Angels vs. Michigan's Knapp and Westerdale.

 

Bernadini Brothers, though I'm not sure the brothers owned the car when this shot was taken...if I remember right it went to Northern California...it is now perfectly restored

 

The talk around Indianapolis back then was that Les's death was the reason Jerry Harvey lost his desire to race. I know he continued but he really enjoyed playing golf much more.