History Zeroing in on the Five-Wheel Flyer

Purpose built. Have you got anymore photos of it?

 

The Hashim ~ Crossley ~ Hylton "Wheely Bar" Dragster


Bill Crossley in the Hashim ~ Hylton Dragster - Bakersfield - March 15th 1959
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The crank-driven supercharged HEMI in the Hashim ~ Hylton ~ Crossley Dragster
Bakersfield 1959 image from the Don Jensen Collection
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More low-rez pics:

photographers unknown
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Here's a higher resolution copy of the color photo @J.Ukrop posted in the Blog:

The Hashim~Hylton~Crossley Dragster at Riverside (May 17th 1959)
image by "Potvin Doug" Peterson​

. . . and a very low resolution copy of the original photo:

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Man that thing is soooo cool.

 

You can definitely see intake manifold and blower tubing changes along with wheel swaps. I met Ernie at Bonneville.

 

In this age where dual wheeled wheelie bars have morphed into a single wheeled bar it is interesting to note that one of the very first ones was a single wheeled affair.

As Ogden Nash once said,
"Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long."

 

In the early 1960's I met the team of Crosley, Williams and Swan at Connecticut Drag-way. They were having a very successful year drag racing. I helped them get 6, 392" Chrysler short blocks from City Auto Parts for $ 58.00 each. They took me out to lunch, and I remember Jack Williams ordering Lima beans with his meal. No body other than Jack Williams that I know would ever order Lima beans. I reminded Jack of that many years later at one of the Bakersfield Re-unions. I still have their business card in my collection. IIRC their dragster was sponsored by Ernie Hashim, who was the M & H tire distributor at the time.

 

Great insight into this iconic machine. I had always admired it and this information was fantastic!