Last year I received a copy of Gasoline Magazine that has an article about me. I was asked to write it by Sondre Kvipt, who has the Kustomrama website, and also writes articles for Gasoline Magazine. What I wrote was translated into Swedish. After my friend Dennis O'Brien saw it, he suggested that I post what I wrote in English, so I created some pages on one of my websites and I hope no one is offended. If you'd like to take a look, the link is ... Gasoline Magazine
Hollywood Hank, sent me a copy of the magazine as he interviewed me for a story on Kellison. Quality publication….I can only hope that he said nice things about me as I couldn’t read it!!!
That is a great history of your car life. You both put a lot of effort into it and thank you for sharing it here.
Hey BN, Great story in the magazine. It was nice reading something about So Cal, as it was during our own time cruising around Long Beach and our road trips to the South Bay plenty of times. The distance from our Westside of Long Beach house to the South Bay shoreline was simple and fun. During our surfing days, the Palos Verdes Peninsula at Haggerty’s was a favorite place, despite the rocks raining down on us as we walked to the point. (As well as the Redondo Breakwater) You mentioned in 1959 being at Lion’s Dragstrip with a FED, DeSoto powered. Would you happen to have photos of the build? There are some of my films that still have FED race cars in them that I have no knowledge of who owned them and what class they were in competition. If your photos match those unnamed ones, I will gladly send you the HD digital copies taken at Lion’s Dragstrip. Jnaki Either send via the HAMB conversation tab or post on your thread. I will definitely check to see if the same FED is in my films. I am doing some final identifying for a large public website for reference access for anyone, about drag racing in the 58-60 era in So Cal. Again, great story in the magazine and Kustomrama is a very good source of information that we all have used at one time or another. 1959 Lion’s Dragstrip Pits
Jnaki, What I said was that I was married in 1959. When my mom and dad found out that Lorraine was pregnant, they helped us buy a house in North Redondo. Soon after our son was born in 1960, Woody started building his dragster in our 2 car garage. I was working graveyards, six nights a week in Downey so I didn't get any build photos. I do have another photo of our son standing on the seat in Woody's dragster but that would have been around 1962. It may have been taken at the same time as the photo on Page 88. After Woody raced his car at Lion's, he wanted to go faster so he built a manifold with two blowers for the DeSoto engine, but I don't think he ever got it to run good. Woody ended up being a CNC machinist and is now married to Ed Donovan's widow, Kathy, of Donovan Engineering in Torrance.
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