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

I believe this is actually Eddie Potter's "Sudden Death" Comp Coupe. It is a Simca body. Frank's was a Fiat.

 

Could you imagine the fun that you could have just spending the day listening to history from @Dean Lowe ,@jnaki, and @296ardun ? I have a few thousand questions that I would like to ask.

 

Correct, I was wrong.

 

Here's a picture I took at Westhampton, Dave Daly owner and driver, Willie "The Welder" Feyh builder, driver.

Jnaki I can relate to your childhood, I'm a little younger than you but on a similar growing up track. I was hanging around a garage at the age of 12, I would get them coffee or lunch and sodas. The MG in my avatar is the one in that garage and in the summer of 62 one of the guys offered to take me to the track on Sunday. I had to get my parents permission and being a Catholic I could not miss mass on Sunday. So after 6:00 AM mass I ran home picked up my brown bag lunch and ran on down to the Garage where Al picked me up. He had a brand new 62 Chevy Impala 409 dual quad, 4speed car. We went out to Westhampton, put on the Bucron tires and he raced in the S/S class. I hung out with the MG and rest of the guys including Jack Merkel and Eddie Sanzo. I took pictures with my Kodak camera but only have a few pictures of the time. I do have the memories and the car which I've been racing for 11 years. We retired it again and hopefully it will wind up in a museum, that's my intention.

Pat

 

We had just made a pass at Lions one weekend, and were at the far end/shutdown area picking up my dad. Here comes Potter, no parachute. We ran in the same class, Competition Eliminator, He goes into the sand/dirt, front end digs in and bends the chassis in half---somersault.
The dirt at the far end of Lions was really dark, and I'm just assuming from all of the oil fields in the area. The car threw a TON of dirt at least 40-50 feet in the air--unbelievable. Eddie got a big gash on his chin, otherwise unhurt.
That crash earned Eddie his nickname "Parachute Potter". I was 9yrs old.

 

Australia...

 

Thanks FR for the story on Eddie Potter. I knew the car got wadded up, but I never heard how.

 

I remember my dad saying that he could make flawless aluminum to aluminum welds with an oxy-acetylene torch. He came to our house a few times and hung out in the garage with my dad & a cpl other guys.

 

Prudhomme in Ivo's Nailhead Buick...

 

I had many people tell me Potter was a "Different kind of guy". You knew something was going to happen, just what ,you never knew. lol

 

Little known fact, Buster did not like snakes! Sooooo, a well known F/C driver delayed his staging, and when Buster approached his side window to prompt him into staging a rubber snake was tossed at Buster. He was NOT amused. The single was aborted and Buster was waiting in the pits for said F/C driver to return.

 

I took this pic at a Goodguys Sonoma Drag Racing event in the very early 2000s----laying by the base of the tower with trash/dead weeds all over it. I guess they had moved it and were going to relocate---it was pretty crumbly

 

This deserves a bit of a cleanup.

 

M/T...

 

This is sorta interesting. Looking at the engine in its detail, it all looks done well.
THEN...you look at the blower belt guard brackets..!?



Mike

 

I'm thinking that car and motor were built for the FIA record runs at Riverside. And then they decided to take it drag racing where some association required some belt restraints.

 

High and Mighty under construction...

 

Some tech judge probably told Mickey he needed one to race, so he built it in the 30 minutes before round one out of a dented mailbox and an old shelf bracket someone had left in the pushtruck bed, using a Swiss Army knife and some rusty 4" side cutters. By end of event day, he was selling them in his booth on vendor row.

 

I agree but i give him a pass on those bitchin trumpet exhaust tips!

 

Early days of the Ramchargers...

 

Lefty Mudersbach...

 

Chrisman Brothers...

 

always wonder how the drive line is laid out in those tandem axle cars

 

The Bounty Hunter and Big Daddy...the early days.