I received these from email and no clue where or who it is but here are some really neat old drag racing pictures and for the most HAMB FRIENDLY. Possibly some Hambers can identify the location and some of the people pictured.Enjoy and happy Thanksgiving to all. There are another 70 + on http://www.hotrodchat.com/gallery/
There is a reason for that--No fast foods like Mc Donalds-popeyes chicken.whataburger, No TV and when TV came along no remote. To go to a restaurant was a treat with the family and happened every couple of months or so. We walked, rode the bus or rode bikes every where we went. No video games, computers or any other crap to keep you inside the house. Every one played outside until dinner. Mechanics did it with hand tools and speed handles-No air tools to speed the job up and was done with hard sweat. Our first jobs were protected by our worth and usually 7AM to 10PM 5 days a week and a whopping $35.00 a week and damn glad to get it. We were a working generation with every meal at the table with family and the beginning of hotrods and drag racing and most of it on isolated streets until 1955 when we got a drag strip. Its was a better time as I see it and you never had to lock your doors and kids all walked to school without fear. Its hard to get fat when your 100% active.
There has to be some Hambers that know where this drag strip is or know some of the racers. There is a couple there we all know but many we dont so fess up.
i ask my dad the same question. He said, we worked our asses off in those days!! Boy! I thought i was working hard every day.
Some of these were posted a while back,the track is in VA.There was great shot of a 33 Plymouth cpe almost identicle to the one I have.
Well thats the way they did it back then including school dress.All the levi's were cut long for the purpose of making cuff's.
damn all my E-mails are about dick pills and nigerian's that want to be my friend! cool pics Ray but in my day all my pants were to long because they once belonged to my older brother!!
You're right, some of those (with the mountains in the background) were in an earlier thread. I think they were from a strip somewhere near Roanoke. Great stuff. I love those old black and white photos.
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