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

Thanks guys. I'm just not getting any love for taking the zoomies off. Didn't think anyone would notice. Sounds better, runs slower. Will be building another set. Here's a shot from Chris Graves.

 

"didn't think anyone would notice"....come on Dave, this is the HAMB...masters of the fine art of details and nit picking.


Has anyone found a good site for detailed results from the drags? All BangShift has is hundreds of great photos.

 

Zoomies? Ahhhh, weedburners are traditional; this must be one of those mystical things that gets a pass by HAMBERS!
Seriously, I love zoomies too, I'm just saying...
BTW, Dave, I don't think Shaedy has had that shirt off too much since last weekend!
You may have a new groupie!

 

Customer and friend of mine, Hans Anderson.... around 1965-66 with the Valiant and approx 1968 with the Willys

He's still racing Hemi powered cars now at age 70.....540 CI aluminum Injected Hemi in a 72 Vega bodied car

Tony

 

Couple color pics of "The Golden Chariot" and another car Hans drove called "Hemi a Go-Go"

Tony

 

Here's an Alex Theofilos shot,circa 1967. Dennis Doubleday

 

How quick did this thing run back in 1963? I figure it was on fuel becuase the ban was off then. JC

 

7.40s when they parked it. Here's a site done by them....

http://www.redfuelcoupe.com/

 

I wasn't far off, after a few beers I started thinking how that thing would have ran in 63 with the tires they had and not a lot of trick parts. My 2 beer engineering calculations came out to a 7.60 or so. A few more beers and I would have been rite on.

 

I've always thought the "Golden Charriot" was cool. Looking at the later pix, I didn't stretch my Dart's nose enough!

 

I do believe that is Cecil Yother (Melrose Missle) doing the bleach bottle duties.
Joel

 

Ok...He sent me some pictures of the frame.
It looks like the same back half to me.
What do you think?
Shane

 

Ohhhh no, yours has a banjo type rear and no engine.
I am not impressed!

 

Is that Tommy Lee's car ?

 

Yup...

 

Harold Nicholson crashed at San Fernando during eliminations on Nov. 22, 1959. He was taken to Sun Valley Hospital where he died a short while later. I was unable to find what car he was driving. See his entry on my Drag Strip Deaths website: http://dragstripdeaths.webs.com/195059.htm
I'd be grateful for any who can send me more info or photo of him or his car.

 

I've always read that Nicholson was killed at Saugus....

Rodders Journal #26

 

Awesome!

 

oil-dry burnout?

 

Powdered rosin

 

Now that is a neat photograph of the Challenger R/T support vehicles!

 

Thats a nice 60 F100 wrecker truck in the background.

 

That is one of the most awesome pix on this thread! Unpublished, I would guess. and clean enough to be an advertising shot for the '70 Challengers. Is that a Kawasaki triple coming from behind Charlie Allens funny?
Great shot, thanks for sharing!
(is this the greatest thread ever, or what???)

 

Yeah, and Im big on the early Chevelle. Great photo.

 

That's quite a website, kinda morbid, but also interesting. I unfortunately, know too many on that list, thankfully it doesn't have the drag boat racing names too!

 

What a great thread. I haven't read it in its entirety, but have enjoyed every post I've read thus far.

This is a short video I have stumbled across, runs for just over one minute, from Patone, New Zealand in 1946. Two cars being timed over 1/4mile:

http://www.ziln.co.nz/program_detail.php?program_id=1607&channel_id=112

 

From his past weekends Nostalgia Nationals, nice PoP Gasser





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This is Ellie in her Topolino 'Tot Rod' psyching out Frantic's driver in the fire up lane. There has been a build up thread of the car here on the HAMB, and she posted a very reasonable 1/8th mile time of 18.6 seconds at 40.18mph on her first run down the strip!

 

Same here!