The Jalopy Journal
The three wheeler crashed, so the team re-fronted the car into this version. Note the engine and the roll bar is the same as the 3-wheel car[ATTACH]
[ATTACH] where they started, 1941, from Custom Car Chronicle.
Lots of great history here...thanks!!
bad brain fade...thanks!
[ATTACH] Tommy Ivo at Santa Ana...had it incorrectly captioned as Norm Grabowski...serious brain fade! [ATTACH] Mooneyham and Sharp, unblown...
That's a great question...It is not the President Lincoln that I saw run at Lions, but Earle ran it in New York and Florida before moving to...
Fred Waterworth's Bantam bodied competition coupe at Santa Ana, ran both an Olds and a Chrysler, this is the latter engine. Life Magazine photo...
[ATTACH] Bill Sanders started this RED with a Cragar headed Ford 4, later a flathead V-8, and finally an Olds.
[ATTACH] Wilton & Doss, BB Chevy, Mike Mitchell photo. Leon "Bubby" restored the car.
Ernie Alvarado's Ernie's Camera Shop car, first Fuller 3-point roll bar dragster. Here it was on gas, but Ernie later ran it on nitro. It has been...
Stellings and Hampshire, "Red Stamp Special"
Harold Nicholson, Bantam roadster, blown GMC, brother Don Nicholson at left, at Santa Maria
Dean Turk, blown Pontiac, from Mesa, Arizona
Warren and Coburn, Bob's Muffler Special
Manuel Coelho, Mickey Thompson bought it and made it into his twin Chrysler that he both drag raced and ran at Bonneville, 294mph.
Ed Losinski, at Colton
Tom Prufer, "Powerking," 354" Chrysler
Bobby Langley, from Everman, Texas, ran a Cadillac engine before he switched to a Chrysler
J.E. Riley Special, at the NHRA Nationals, Calvin Rice drove, won top eliminator in 1955
Kenny Lindley's Misfire, before the blower
Early effort by the Speed Sport team, Fisher, Greth, Maynard
Harold Nicholson's Bantam, with a GMC 6, racing George Bentley.
Ken Crawford, Kenz Muffler, Fuller car
Garlits beating Langley, Houston, 1958
Butters and Porter - Riverside
Kent Chatagnier's "Blown Maniac" - blown Pontiac --- he later died in a plane crash.
Dode Martin, at left, racing the Bean Bandits, Pomona, around 1952
Rodney Singer from Texas ran this blown Cadillac powered dragster --- he ran Karol Miller's blown Lincoln, winning top eliminator at the 1959 NHRA...
Nichols Brothers Olds fuel dragster at Santa Ana
Prudhomme's first dragster, Bakersfield...he bought it from Tom Ivo, couldn't afford injectors, so went with carbs. Bill Scharing photo
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