Why do they have the scoops on backwards? There's other gas dragsters in here backwards too so there must be something to it.
hello, here is a movie clip of tommy ivo's 671 supercharged buick dragster at lions in 1960 that i took. it was inbetween the injected buick...and the buick twin. not too many ivo dragster photos of the 671 on the buick motor. thanks, jnaki
Jack Doyle's Slider AA/GD, 1968 AHRA Nationals winner. Just a great car that never let us down, even when I didn't do a great job driving.
1968 AHRA Nationals top gas final, John Levin far lane up in smoke, and we're off and gone for the win in the Slider. Bob Snyder photo
My father is Bob Brown, driving for Glen McCulloch of so.cal. Glen was part owner with Leon Fitzgerld, owner driver of AA/FA "Pure Heaven" at Anaheim Speed Engineers. Glen was excellent with small block Chevys.
Dave Zeushel is on the far right, my dad is standing next to him, on his right,the only name I remember them calling him Spider, man on left is Bob Cano who was a drag boat racer and friend of my dad.
Pat Paulson, didn't even need the hint.[/QUOTE] Ran on the "STAG PARTY" ticket. "If nominated I will not run, if elected, I will not serve", was the campaign slogan. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
Like Gary and George I started going to the drags (at Lions) when I was 11 if I could talk Dad into it (he was a stick and ball fanatic). I missed a lot of great racing 'cause they wouldn't let me go without a parent until I was about 14. Then Dad would drop me and a buddy off at noon Saturday and pick us up outside the gates at 10:30 or so. I loved the dragsters and I didn't care if they were gas, fuel or Jr Fuel. My hands down favorite back then was the Adams & McEwen Shark car. I would stand and stare at it 'til it was time to head for the lanes, then I'd head for my favorite seat on the return road side where you could look almost straight down on the cars as they came by. I guess it was before the real Top Gas, but any good pictures of the Shark Car?? Thanks for the great thread.
I guess this is the best thread to put The George Bolthoff history story. The early HAMB time frame years. EDIT: the first sentence below is NOT ME it is George himself saying it was his first car. This is my first car, a 1930 Model A Ford cabriolet coupe. This picture was taken in 1949 behind our house in Big Bear Lake California. The car was soon striped of its fenders and the top was cut off to make it into a HOT ROD roadster. Although the car looked like a hot rod, the 4-cylinder Model A engine did not provide the performance of one. What I needed was a Ford V-8 engine! 1930 Ford roadster, with 32 chassis and a 37 V8. But no top or heater got REAL COLD driving it. 1932 3 window Ford had roof, but no windows or heater. First drive on real drag strip Santa Ana drag strip 1952 top speed 72.58 mph Next car a 1936 coupe painted yellow. Ran stock class even with no fenders at Saugus California and won a few trophies First Dragster in 1954 with flathead. Standing Fred Chavez, Frank Huszar, and me George Bolthoff, in drivers seat is Earl Gerard. The car was built from parts from junkyard behind Fred's gas station in Tarzana Calif. Photo taken after winning Top eliminator at Saugus drag strip California. Car only ran a few times and the parts were then sent back to the junkyard. The Chevy Dragster years Taken at the Lions Drag Strip in Long Beach, CA, and Ron Hampshire is driving. The chassis was completed in early 1962 by Kent Fuller and the body was made by Doug Kruse. By June of 1962 the car made its first run at the Fontana, Ca. drag strip. The car was originally driven by Ron Hampshire, but Ron was soon drafted into the Army! I took over the driver's job in late 1962 and stayed in the seat until I stopped running the car. The engine was a 339 Cubic Inch Displacement (CID) Chevrolet small block, equipped with a 6-71 supercharger. The car started out running 172 mph with an elapsed time (ET) of 9.00 seconds. By the end of 1963 the speed had risen to 181 mph with an ET of 8.40 seconds. The little Chevrolet ran well, setting records and winning a lot of races; but it was unreliable. The car lost races when the engine broke. This picture was taken at the 1963 NHRA Winter Nationals at Pomona Ca. This was the first national event for this car. And it qualified in a field that included some of the fastest in the country: Jack Chrisman, Gordon Collet, Danny Ongais, and the Peters and Frank twin-engine "Freight Train". The little Chevrolet was over matched this time, and the "Freight Train" won this meet at 178.21mph and 8.82 sec. elapsed time. Record Holder 8.34 at 191.08 MPH 1965
Wow loudbang thanks for the history lesson I've read a lot about George bolthoff I had no idea that was you I have a chassis research car and am running a blown gas injected 331 but it's no where near the times you were running guess I better do a better job of tuning it then Chrome don't get ya home
WHOA that is not me the caption saying my first car was from GEORGE not me. I will edit that one for sure
Oh ok loudbang guess I misunderstood what was being said lol still thanks for the history Chrome don't get ya home
This is a photo that I shot of my Top Gas dragster at Tulsa in 1969. My first wife was pregnant and pulled me out of the driver's seat, so I hired 19-year-old John "Goat" Osborn (pictured) to drive for me. It was a Bill Beaman chassis with a 462 cu.in. Chrysler built by Dick Moritz. Front wheels and mag blower drive also were by Moritz. We were racing on the Midwest All-Stars Top Gas Circuit along with Moritz & Lundy, Pusch & Cain, Bunker & Williams, McClintock & Ferguson and several others. It was a great time for the class and we had a lot of fun running at strips from Marion, South Dakota to Opelousas, Louisiana. One of our highlights would be winning the Midwest Gas Dragster Championship at Omaha in 1969, beating Doug Ferguson driving Charlie McClintock's car in the final. Unfortunately, we lost John in 1979 in a crash at Kansas City when he was driving Dick Moritz' funny car.
If you're referring to the twin engine "Black Mariah" Mr. Austin still has it. Uses it as cackle car these days. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Believe it or not the Wiess and Larkin started life as one of the Howard cams Rattler cars Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I'll admit I don't have any pictures, but it's alright now in fact it's a gas Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
What a great thread! Not everyone ran nitro, us "blackie carbon" guys ran pretty well as well. The other thing I have always wanted people to know (those that were there already do) not all the good racing was on the west coast. The midwest was a real hotbed during the 60's & 70's. I'm from the Cleveland area, and the racing in Ohio was outstanding. National Trail, 42, Norwalk, Thompson, Quaker City. Friday & Sunday nights at Quaker City were legendary. There were always full fields, and a lot of guys that didn't make the show. The top gas cars were so strong, that we would enter fuel meets & win, until the real t/f cars bitched, so we actually did run alcohol in our gas motors just to compete, and did very well. Just a few of the names off the top of my head, Oties, me (Ron Stevens) Lou Novotny, Dave Shaffer, DA Santucci, Dick Vest, plus so many more I cant remember. I'm sorry for those I forgot. Here are some pictures of my car, I've probably went on too long already.
You didn't go on long at all. We would love to hear more of your story and here is a place you can go on as long as you like. Feel free to post away the guys would like to hear more. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/our-history.1052448/
Do you have any more pictures of John Osborn? I am good friends with his brother Mike. He was showing me a pic of Jon with your car last night. I'd love to be able to share more pics with him.
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