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

The car in post 50774 is my car green Willys Hook and Wells it ran a Desoto hemi with Cadillac Lasale trans first picture Ive seen of it back in 63 very cool.

 

Tony Nancy at San Fernando, running Sparks & Bonney blown flathead, maybe '56?


Always easier when the caption is there...Moody in far lane in the Zeuschel & Fuller car, think Wayne is in the Doss and King car, this look like maybe '64.


This time Wayne wins one...Kenny Ellis stuck with the wheelbarrow design for a long time, finally went to twin blown Chryslers on gas...was a very good dragster body bender.

I don't have IDs on either car...but have to say that this was back when creativity was what you did in drag racing...Steel Pontiac vs Steel 'bird...


No ID...Bakersfield...hang on!


No ID on this car at Lions



Dean Moon getting hardware for Nationals win..Devin bodied A/MSPT


I remember this Ford, bright yellow, forgot that Dick Landy ran it before his MoPar days....there was another SS sponsored by Andy Andrews Autos, a brown Chevy run by John Wenderski...who would step from it into his Ivo-built top fuel car.


Kalitta vs the Train...I think that the Train took this race.



Former track roadster getting the shoe polish numbers at Santa Ana


Jim Nelson, at right, Santa Ana, with the Masters Dragliner

 

Art Malone racing Tommy Ivo at San Gabriel...Malone left Garlits to drive for himself, built his own car and his own engine, won Bakersfield over a 32-car field with this car.


No ID at Lions


No ID on car or place, anyone??


Very early Lions, Jack Ewell, near side, looks like Emory Cook in the far lane -- this was a Yeakel sponsored car that Kenny Arnold drove, then sold to Cook & Bedwell, later got a different roll bar, I posted a picture of it in an earlier post.


Dragway 42, West Salem, OH, note that the early funny cars had to run in the altered classes until they were accepted as a separate class...(some had to run as fuel dragsters)


still with the SBC, haven't seen that scoop before...


From Don Ewald's site; I think that this is Pete Robinson in his second Dragmaster car, which was a bit longer than his '61 NHRA nationals winning car.


One of the little guys who made up the bulk of the entrants, it may have had only 144 cu. in., but to this racer it was probably his world...at Phoenix


Probably another small engine, in G/Gas, but for the cubic inches, these guys put on a great show...and they put as much work into their cars as did the big-engine cars.


Unknown at San Luis Obispo, Potvin-blown Olds


Culver Sandblasting at San Luis Obispo...love the chop on this '36.


Flathead dragster at San Luis Obispo

 

Awesome!

 

This is in my driveway.

Dave

 

I have a guy asking for a photo of a starting line ''clock''. He said before the Christmas tree came to be that there was a clock of some kind to start the race? I'm 58 and I've never seen a pic of one. How about you guys.

 

Mine doesn't have a clock but it is the first Christmas tree.

Dave

 

I have never heard of a starting line clock, and I have been going to the drag races since '57. Before the Christmas tree, flag starters started the races...

 

That's what we had at the circle boat races at the S.C.S.C. events here in so-cal

It was set up for a 5 minute starting gun

 

Thank you so much for the posts! I appreciate it. I have thoroughly enjoyed creating the Facebook site in honor of my father and feel honored that everyone has welcomed me.

 

Thank you for the wonderful posts of my father...I deeply appreciate it! I have thoroughly enjoyed creating the Facebook site in honor of my father and am honored that his page is so popular. God bless! ~Nina Stepp

 

....there was another SS sponsored by Andy Andrews Autos, a brown Chevy run by John Wenderski...

This is John W's '62 409 at the Pond.

 

The Kalitta FED wind tunnel test defines ''looks like it's going 200 mph standing still''.