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

Monkey Motion triple-play...

 

Thankfully got to experience this track before it met its demise…

 

My home track in the early 70's

 

Norm Grabowski built it but I don’t
know if he still owned it when it served as a push car. Here’s an earlier photo of it with Mamie Van Doren behind the wheel.

 

Wheeler Dealer...

 

I believe that Kaye Trappe bought it from Norm, and that he owned it when it was pushing the Fuller, Zeuschel, and Moody dragster

 

Exactly right Dave. He also used the T to push his own fueler too, the Winkle & Trapp "Magicar".

 

Another track I would have loved to have gotten to BITD..that timing tower is legendary…best I could do was stop by the fence along Sand Canyon and dream…

 

Early Monkey Motion...Nov. '68 issue of Drag Strip magazine

 

Someone pointed out the Mustang lower pan and bumper...sharp eye!

 

Goob Tuller at Lions...

 

Gil Hayward built this car at the "North Fair Oaks Speed Shop," in Pasadena, CA. It was really nothing more than a garage, but lots of legendary Pasadena-area hot rodders used it, including Don Montgomery, Don Blair, the Dahm brothers, Holly Hedrich, Bob Rounthwaite, Tom McLaughlin, and more. Here is a Don Montgomery photo of it earlier, with Don's Hudson

 

A rare sight...2 races only in this configuration for the Surfmobile.

 

Thanks to Mike Channing, I wore a piece of drag racing history at NR 2021!

 

That’s killer….

 

A very young Shirley Muldowney in the car that started it all...

 

Zane Shubert/Chet Herbert sidewinder triple-play for your Friday viewing pleasure.

 

There’s just something about the 1962 Ford, Pontiac and Chevrolet. They made great looking race cars as well as nice mild customs.

 

Hard to make power this way...

 

Could anyone I.D. this car? Would like to find more images of it.

 

Just got a new trans built for my Willys by a local guy that has been around the Northwest racing scene [mostly dirt track] for a while. Always got to ask, "got any old drag race pictures?" Bingo! Not a lot but I'll scan and post what there is. Taken at the Arlington drag strip by a high schooler for a photography class.

 

surfers , no idler and that wagon pushing , they figured out how to run without a idler , mocked up the block and had the top of the intake blanchard ground , brilliant guys watch the documentary on you tube a must see
fabricator john
miss you dad

 

You don’t need an idler if you're going to run it without a belt.

 

Another one before heading out to the shop. Maybe someone can ID the people and cars. That'd be fun!

 

I bounced this off Don Prieto, he said:
"Archie Ary....Diamond dust paint."

 

Ron Abbot's " Hell-za-poppin" dragster in the near lane.