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

Me in the Low Buck Special at Bakersfield!

 

So here is what I simply do not understand. If a person has a "traditional" drag car for the HAMB era or has built a car of any type to the acceptable HAMB standards can it not be shown currently? I assume the deleted picture was an era compliant car (I think I know what pic it was) but a modern picture like the one above. So how can it be unacceptable to show a current picture of a car when the owner is still enjoying racing the car at current events? Does the rule preclude showing that HAMB cars are just not acceptable unless they are being shown back in the day?

Confused so please explain it to me.

 

The one that was deleted had convo pro wheels on it.

 

No offense.... But those wheels are fugly!!!!!
I wouldn't give .02¢ for those....

 

Pat:
The Beast from the East Dragster was driven by Paul Gommi who also owned the car along with Russell Grady who were both from Stamford, Ct.
They owned a speed shop back in the mid 60's called Grady & Gommi Speed Shop.
Paul moved to CA. around 1966 or 1967 and went to work for Keith Black Engines.

A few years ago he contacted me about getting some of his old decals from the speed shop.

Not sure if you were at Dover the day he made a pass and when he pulled the chute it got caught in the drain cover that was down past the finish line and has he was braking the chute along with the iron grate went flying passed his head.

Jim Hill

 

It's ok Offset, I get it. Nore am I offended. I'm ok with it. Do appreciate your defense for me.
Joe

Sent from my VS988 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

Didn't Paul have a new car on order, for Mike Sorokin to drive, at the time of Mike's untimely death.

 

I asked at a number of the smaller private plane fields...they were surprised to learn that organized drag racing had started there...but nobody I talked to had any idea....but they let me in and allowed me to wander around and take pictures...but I did not pinpoint the location until I reviewed what I found and with Lou Well's assistance, finally found it...

 

Interesting bit of history 296. I wonder how many housing/business developments are using old drag strips as their main thoroughfare?

 

More of them every week....St Thomas is feeling the heat,it’s only a matter of time before that valuable real estate at Grand Bend gets snapped up by developers,and a real heartbreaker for me and many of my close friends,the historic Rockford/Byron Dragway is for sale....He’ll,I even named my youngest Son after the place, I love it so much!

Scott


Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.

 

Powrshftr you named him Dragway. LOL

You are right it is a difficult time with the value of land steadily increasing and neighbours closing in on these tracks. Would hate to see either track close. St. Thomas has a special place in my heart for certain.

 

In motion at Milan.

 

You’re a genius.

From what I’m hearing,if the management at St Thomas don’t remove head from ass soon,they’re in deep trouble.....I mean,how many years are you seriously going to have a bump in the top end of the track that restricts fast cars to 1/8 mike only racing?





Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.

 

Found this little beauty on fb earlier today.Is that the Gene Fulton car?

Scott


Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.

 

The criteria for this thread has always been period shots of HAMB era cars. There is a separate thread for current cars built in era correct style. Sometimes cars from back in the day that are still being raced (generally in somewhat updated form) slip through the net. Current photos of restored cars are also somewhat acceptable if they are being used as a follow up to a vintage shot to illustrate that the car still exists.

Roo

 

Well said, Roo....the cutoff date has sometimes changed a bit since the start of this thread in 2009, but it is generally between '65 and '69....We police it mostly ourselves so that it does not get closed by the moderators....the original focus was on "drag cars in motion," though that has been relaxed somewhat...still, cars in motion are preferred.

 

I have probably posted this before...but it is a great shot...Bob Armstrong in the Armstrong and Richter unblown fuel dragster, painted bright orange and sponsored by Nesbitt's Orange...possibly one of the first large sponsors in drag racing --- good illustration of mid-late '50s technology, steel front wheels with Moon discs, V8-60 front axle, friction shocks, Halibrand rears, recapped slicks....I think that this is at Lions.


Texas has produced lots of great drag racers, and Carl Stone was one of them...looks like Prentice Cunningham's yellow roadster pickup in back.


Ted Cyr, might be at Beeline....Ted, along with partner Bill Hopper, towed this car back to the '58 NHRA nationals to sell it, but when their new blown Chrysler TE-440 lost, they unloaded this car and won top eliminator. Before they sold it, they put two blown Chryslers in it and ran it a Lions...


Jim Dunn's altered racing the Train at Ramona...Jim normally ran this A/A on gas, but a dose of nitro went into it for this race...photo from Hot Rod.


Tiberi and Peterson's beautiful gas roadster at a Smoker's meet. John Moore took lots of central California drag racing photos, this one was on the Smoker's website. Like lots of hiboy drag roadsters, this one probably started out as a street-driven hot rod, then was converted to drag-only use.

 

The answer is many...Saugus, Paradise Mesa, Alton IL, Henderson NV...Fremont is about to be developed...there are literally hundreds of dead drag strips that now either lie under a development or have been neglected to the point where nobody even knows where they were.

 

Thanks Dave and Dan for sharing some new photos.

 

Cyr and Hopper as a Twin.

 

Another new photo to this thread. Now we're on the right track. Thanks for that.

 

Not sure but maybe he did. What year did Mike Sorokin pass on?

Jimbo

 

December 30, 1967 at OCIR.

 

Rudy Perez, who took a lot of Northern California drag racing pictures for Drag News, just posted these of the Burkhart, Brammer, and Burns fuel roadster. Running a blown Desoto with a Potvin kit, this car broke records almost everywhere it ran. The bottom picture shows "Big" George Burkhart (over 300 lb, 6'7") standing at left, Everett "Hippo" Brammer kneeling by the engine, and Mike Burns in the cockpit. Hippo was a regular guy who worked in an aquarium factory, and Mike Burns worked the counter at Weiands...I used to stop when picking up parts for Blairs and have lunch with them there. After the Sadd Brothers & Teague lakes roadster was almost destroyed in a Bonneville return road crash, this roadster gave up its body to them. Hippo passed away a few years ago, was a drag racer for many years....