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

Good eye on that! Must have been an early "split-window".

 

...Dick Moroso ....???

 

Looks like the weiner is about to catch some guardrail. LOL.

 

Thanks, both John and Patricia DeCiccio are my Facebook friends...

 

Thats what the comment was.

 

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Gene Mori's Chevwagon from MD

 

Dick Moroso and his famous Corvette and it looks like it was running F/MP on this day.
Great guy and hanging round his old shop taught me a great deal over the years.

This picture is before the day's of Moroso Products because you can see on the front fender the words Performance Automotive which was the original name of Dick Moroso's Shop. back in the mid 60's when it was located in Stamford, Ct.

Jimbo

 

From an above post -
Great old picture of Pomona Raceway. The airport (right side of picture) hasn't even been built yet.
That's some "dip" in the racing surface just past half track..!


Mike

 

Yes, this looks like close to the '52 opening, as the asphalt looks recently paved. The old pump house at the end remained until around '57. Would love to know where this picture came from.

 

Old Hemmings article.
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2012/12/13/a-day-at-the-drags-1952/

 

Now if there was ever any confusion over header style terminology, these have got to be "weed burners", right? The more I look at this picture, the more they start to look a bit out of place. Are they period correct, or is the picture maybe a bit older than I'm thinking?

 

Same cars posted earlier, this time in different lanes, Round #2

 

Mr. rudestude -
ANYWAYS...what the hell is that ?
If you are gonna give someone a bunch of crap, at least use...a little more proper English.
Anyways...Ice Ice Baby ...I'm out a here.
Should be "anyway" (singular)..!

And for what it's worth, have the respect to spell a persons name (or even the shortened version) with a capital letter..."Stude".

Mike

 

Those are.... Weed and ankle burners .. They looked better on the early funny cars....

 

The Albertson Olds with Tom McEwen at the wheel vs Sneaky Pete Robinson at the US Nationals in 1961 (when the races were still flag started)

Roo

 

Originally the Ansen/Stuckey car that was sponsored by and then sold to Cash Auto before being repossessed by Lou Senter and eventually became the Greer, Black, Prudhomme car

Roo