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

Discussion in 'Traditional Hot Rods' started by Royalshifter, Dec 12, 2007.

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    Gotta love em and what a trip to drive one.

    They always put on the Best Show of all the cars racing.

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    Better every time I check on this thread. Keep it up, thanks Rick. Any photos of the original Bad News Coupe?
     
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    Classic shot of Gary Cagle. Maybe '59 or so? No face mask, before their time, at best racers either wore goggles like this or the Bell bubble face shield (which didn't do well in a fire!). Looks like a chain blower drive, right side steering, homemade frame. Gary would come into Blair's when I worked there to buy fuel, once in his police car, which we treaked in the parking lot as he was inside....Gary was a racer, plain and simple!

    Troy, if you see this, was this the car he crashed in Kansas? I saw it run at Henderson, NV, right after the '59 Smoker's meet, didn't win (Tony Waters did), but ran really strong on a track that got sandy and slippery pretty fast.
     
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    Dave Marquez's roadster, not sure that Dave still owned it when this picture was taken, he ran an Ardun in it, beautifully constructed, but sold it, it went either to Tennessee or Alabama, ran a SBC and apparently disappeared. Anyone know what happened to it?

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    This might be Jay Cheatham's 5-window, track is either Fremont or Half Moon Bay (I am guessing the latter)...

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    The Buntline Special, creative modified roadster that MattB is recreating, visit his thread on this site, really good work!

    These and the Gary Cagle picture came from the George Klass collection, which he faithfully updates almost daily...thanks again, George!
     
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    I agree. I've read stories about the diff breaking loose & spinning. These guys had their butts strapped in right above it :eek:
     
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    KINGFISH - temporarily not in motion, nor still in Springerville. AZ
     

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    That looks bad!
     
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    I'll bet that's Cadillac Firemist Green. Came out a few years before Chevy's Rally Green. Great color.
     
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    The Bad Bossa Nova is one of all-time favorites, someday I'd love to build a similar car.
     
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    Was this Sush Matsubara driving for Joe Pisano? It looks like the end of the track at OCIR....
     
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    Some TE-440's from the George Klass collection. Scotty Fenn built several versions of this type before moving on to the K-88.

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    This is very similiar to the one I had, used a rubber biscuit in the tube on the front to serve as a sort of spring, back when front springs were required. I think that NHRA banned it (I put a Culbert axle on mine).

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    This one has the more traditional spring front end.

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    Another more traditional TE-440. Can't quite read the lettering on the truck, does it say "Limon, CO"? Looks like a Ford motor...
     
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    Yes,,Also His Grandson is a memeber here,, Tim Jones
     
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    If someone can enhance the lettering a bit more, there might be an answer to that question. On a long shot chance, I checked "1040 Fox, Limon, Co" on Google Maps and discovered that address does not exist as of 2014. At present, Limon isn't very big and the existing street designations seem to consist primarily of numbered streets (north/south) and alpha designated avenues (east/west). 1040 S. Fox Street does exist in Denver, south of I70 and just off I25. Of course, neither of those highways existed at the time of that picture that I'm guessing was taken in the mid-to-late 50s.



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