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History Streamliner Dragsters

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by loudbang, Oct 17, 2017.

  1. catdad49
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    Looks like a Show 'n Go special, plus Buick power!
     
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  2. ttwomotor
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    from Illinois

  3. catdad49
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    Long wheelbase for way back when, thanks for more of the history!
     
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  4. loudbang
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    Tony Nancy

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    Custom Auto glass

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  5. '51 Roadmaster
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    I posted this in the thread about rock'n roll hot rods as this dragster was featured on the cover of Dick Dale's 'Mr. Eliminator' album.

    Tony Nancy's '22 JR'

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  6. Not a "dragster". Jim Fox's rear engine modified roadster. The 331 Hemi in this car later was the motive power for the Frantic Four fuel dragster. Jim used to run the roadster at Pomona. It was painted a gorgeous candy purple, and the running gear was show chromed.

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  7. quicksilverart46
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    Well said I could not agree more. I miss the old days too. The march , Hot Rod Reunion , meltdown Drags and the Southeast Gassers are the only exciting races left.


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  8. ttwomotor
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  9. loudbang
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    I Know this is a Roadster but it fits here :)

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  10. ttwomotor
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    How about a little coupe?

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  11. ttwomotor
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    Going through some pictures I have collected for a long time.

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    The Hunt Bros. team boys were disrespecting Milner by telling him to ''put that small block in his street car'' as he walked through the pits. Had to ignore the Moroso valve covers as I watched it for the 875th time.
     
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    Oops, got a red X. That's a pretty car.
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    The daisy spoke wheels aren't correct for the movie's time frame, I believe.
     
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  14. ^Last night when I posted these, the 'ol eyes were tired and couldn't focus. Milner's car is supposed to be built on a Fuller chassis.
    I'm still unclear about the Red FED.
     
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  15. Piper106
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    How did the Tony Nancy wedge do ET, speed, and handling wise??? Seems like a lot of thee streamliner dragsters either were not competitive speed wise or ill handling
     
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  16. loudbang
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    For sure they all had Aerodynamics problems back then. Don't know his numbers. But seeing the latest batch of top fuelers they seen to have gone back to enclosed cockpits now. :)
     
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  17. rooman
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    Posted by Steel Wheel in the vintage thread

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  19. ttwomotor
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    Mickey Thompson from the front.

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  20. dreracecar
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    Aero happens at the end of the run, but it takes time to get the added weight moving in the beginning. If drag racing was a rolling start, then there would be a speed advantage to streamlining. Containment of the rear slicks held in dirt and debris that would fall out during the run. Old time streamlining running with 2 surfaces (ground and air) was more ART/FORM over FUNCTION
     
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  21. SR100
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    Tony wrecked the first wedge at a bumpy Sandusky. That version had torsion bar rear suspension, but less than an inch of travel.
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    He was also running an open diff, whose spider gears were troublesome. He built the Wedge II without rear suspension and with upswept pipes. The body still trapped the wheel-smoke, pushing it forward. It exited through the blower opening and the cockpit.
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    After Dante Duce crashed it during a run at the 1964 International Drag Festival in England, it was rebuilt with a longer chassis & slots for the tire smoke to escape from. (The car also went through three Plymouth blocks during the festival.) Nancy switched to a hemi, then finally an Olds before parking the car in favor of a front-engined dragster with open wheels. It's worth noting that Nancy was running in NHRA's AA/GS Dragster class, not Top Fuel.
     
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  22. loudbang
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    real early attempts at streamlining

    posted by Steel Wheel in the vintage thread


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    Yes this is a comp roadster

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  23. catdad49
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    Slice o' Pie dragster, they are all Kool! Thanks Banger.
     
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  24. ttwomotor
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  27. rooman
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    "Yes this is a comp roadster"

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    Looks more like a coupe to me.

    Roo
     
  28. Wow this is the greatest thread ever! Just before my time but remember as a youg kid looking at these cars in Hot Rod Magazine.
     
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  29. Creighton Hunter's "Slice of Pie". It ran a sideways flathead with direct chain drive to the live axle, no clutch. He had casters mounted under the rear of the car that he could lower with a lever. He would wind it up, then drop the spinning rear tires down to the pavement. Good in theory, but not in practice. When it veered into the crowd at Santa Ana, Pappy Hart banned it.

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  30. frank spittle
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    Never heard about that Dean. Were there many injuries?
     
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