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

Bring it to the Taco Party Pete...!

 

Richie Bandel Surfers II later George Tatum...

Right after Gordon Tatum purchased the car from the Bandel Brothers:

And after Tatum painted it Green:

 

You bought it just to offend your neighbors, didn’t you.


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Zane Shubert Chet Herbert sidewinder...

 

I believe that's the Hawaiian II

 

I thought the same when I saw the Chrysler Marine valve covers.

 

ttwomotor,
Is this the Greek at Union Grove in the early '60's?

 

You are correct...brain fart!

 

That rear wheel is one I don't recall ever seeing........anybody.

 

Does anyone have pictures of the MANGLER fed. Tom Jobe of the Surfers once stated, that if you came up against those guys you were in trouble.

 

Ongais in the Mangler 1965

 

Ongais in the Mangler Bakersfield 1965

 

So, he drove a cammer Mustang and a dragster????...

 

Ermm...yeah! Among other things...do a Google search to improve your Flyin' Hawaiian knowledge...

 

Cool, thanks!....

 

Isn't that Danny Onthegas.

 

I’ve seen that style before on another car and if I recall correctly it was from an airplane or some kind of aviation wheel that was light and strong


Chrome don’t get ya home

 

Makes sense, I've heard of it also, was apparently where Ted Halibrand got his motivation.

 

More Danny.

 

Wow, the Dragmaster Dart. My Dad took a special liking to that team and Danny Ongais. For me, it was the Adams & McEwen Shark Car. Great times at Lions.....


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Is the Greek - don't think The Grove had cars and spectators on that side of the track - would be late 50's.

 

I believe that the late '50's is correct. By the early '60's he was using the car with the nose fairing that when 206 at Alton. I was never at Cordova or Jacksonville, but it could have been at one of the early World Series of Drag Racing meets.

 

I have always been a huge Danny on-the-gas fan, a bit of a mysterious character as he apparently was always very introverted and never gave interviews let alone a bio so info on him is very scarce

 

Schwinn !! I was a Huffy Drag Bike man myself.. With that long frame, I could put my weight on the front and do burn outs with that slick...