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

He was quite the driver...drove many fuel altereds skillfully. My FB friend Mike Hayward remembers Gary driving his father's "Monkey Motion."

 

Dean, did you know Dick Guyette or happen to know anyone connected to him? Even if it's a long shot. I've got almost everything to build this early dragster, including wooden bucks I've made from scaled up pictures. Only thing I'm missing is that damn Potvin setup. Thanks Randy

 

So Dick Guyettes lil dragster was built from previous rail? I'm curious. Shoot me any info. about it if you know please. Really need all
the help and info I can get. Thanks. Randy

 

No, sorry, I never knew Dick. I was 14 when I saw the Clown at Pomona, and that was the only time seeing it in person.

 

Dallas Texas 1955

 

Found this cool article in a old Popular Science Magazine Sept. 1966 ,....and the old Champion plug ad is from a Popular Science Magazine April 1962 thought the picture was cool...

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the picture of the 56 in this picture is before he scraped the wall. the battle scars are still on his car !!!!! and he runs 9.80's now !

 

Not in motion, my dad around 1962 probably at Minnesota Drag Ways

 

Spotted these in a old Hot Rod Magazine I was flipping through.....

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Some more flipping going on....

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Continued.....

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The rest....

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The shot of Charlie Allen and the Dutchman in the shutdown area might be the best picture I've seen in a while. I would have payed anything to be around the starting line for that one.

 

With surfing the web being the norm... I guess that's what it's called .....just sitting and flipping through old magazines is probably not cool ....well I like it ...and I have a lot of old magazines.... here's some shots from my latest flip's...some of the ones in this first group are British drags....

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Some more of the British drags ....

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Back in the U.S.A. continuing on .....

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Hope I'm not boring any one.....good...here is some more.... notice the rear axle location on the Dutchman car in the previous group of pics........

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I'll end it some color shot's.....

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Is that the Ram Rod? I love that car.

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Holy ladder bars on the comet!!!!


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I thought this looked like the Dover dragstrip snack bar (spent a lot of time there) so I looked it up and yes it is and the pit side stands. Another Branded photo.

Pat

 

Ouch. Look at where the driver ended up. Scary stuff and a good reason for safety rules.

 

Street radials+HP+VHT=bad situation