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

HOW COOL IS THAT

 

D.N.D. I think another name for egg keep is Water Glass or sodium silicate. If so that's what was put in all the engines a few years ago when the Gov't scrapped all the cars trying to jump start the economy.

 

You and the other famous names. Old, those days!

 

This the 1st Ontario?

 

We used Water Glass to seal small links in our gasser engines. It was recommended by a local pharmacist (as a poor man's solution for cracked blocks) He said it was used to seal raw eggs, especially for Navy ship supplies.

 

David you are always such an impressive wealth of information about all of this

 

there was only one Ontario

 

Yes sir Ontario was a first class race track, went out there for the Questar grand prix with the F 5000 cars vrs the F1 stuff

Everything was painted with flowers every ware but it came with a price tag, and the note was way too much and it just faded away

What a shame that so-cal cant support a nice track like that was

 

nice to see Tom S in TN posting again.......Hi Tom.....

lawrence

 

Is Jerry Johansen still around? Anyone? When I started racing (1960) we held him in awe. He was our age, or a little younger, and knew so much about racing. Of course literally growing up at Howards Cams was why he knew so much. Capable of running 'big league' cars at such a young age. Very, very talented.

 

Yep probably a repeat. This one would make a fellow melancholy! Rest in peace K.S.

 

KS PITTMAN during happier times...1965 NHRA Winternationals Pomona

 

A buddy of mine now living in Alaska sent me some photos he took as a lad when he lived in New Mexico. These are all taken at a drag strip there, between 1961 and 1963.


Maybe someone will recognize some of these, I am unfamiliar with most of them.


The GMC 4-71 looks kind of small today, but was usually enough for a SB Chevy on gasoline.


Any digger trailer with hubcaps might be considered a high-dollar rig. Remember chain-drive blowers?


A standout back then, and it would be a standout today, too.

A Modified Sports Car, what it once was I have no idea. Looks like 348-409 Chevy power.


I should know this car but I don't. Looks like a Dragmaster chassis under the tin.


B/SR, SB Chevy powered. In those days, there really were "street/strip" cars in the Gasser and Street Roadster classes. A license plate is a dead giveaway.

 

The first one might be Bobby Langley; I think the set-back '27 roadster is Ray Godman's Tennessee Boll Weevil.

 

I believe you are correct...

 

Gabe, he is listed as deceased on Don Ewald's "in memorium" site:

http://wediditforlove.com/remembering.html

 

Sassy Sue sure looks like a version of the Don Hardy / Kelly Chadwick B/G car

 

Thanks Ardun. I go to that sight once in a while as a visitor and didn't think to look there.

 

Morning,

Rumor is this car was raced at the Arlington drag strip. Any Northwest guys recognize it? I'm typically not a fan of mismatch grill on a 32 but this I like.

 

I believe that this is Bob Rounthwaite's "thingie" dragster with a new owner and a flathead instead of the GMC...Pomona, very early 50s.


Roo commented on an early post of Dale Armstrong's Chev topless funny car, that the top was cut off after a trans explosion damaged it...here is the original.



The car is marked "Blair's Speed Shop," probably pre-55 before slingshots. I worked at Blair's in the '60s, really wish I had learned more about some of the earlier cars that Blair sponsored.


I have no clue who's car this is...once was a German DKW, and the only person I know who modified one was Blair's engine guy Danny Sheffield, who put a Lincoln V-12 in one...I left for the Navy before he finished it, wonder if this is it?


Steve Korney (sp??) Gold finger AA/GS up against an Austin gasser


Minnesota's Tom Hoover, Ford cammer...this was a really well finished car...I remember watching it run at Fremont, where John Batto's unpainted fueler beat it.


No ID on this double-McCulloch blown Ford powered altered


The Don Johnson-owned Daddy's Auto Body special at San Fernando. According to the caption, Tom McCoury is driving...it ran a Max Balchowski-built Buick, but later ran Ivo's Buick...Sometimes Ivo also drove, and given the Buick pushcar (Ivo had a Buick before he went to Cad push cars), this could be Ivo in the seat. This was Kent Fuller's first dragster chassis, had a traditional spring front end, and a fiberglass body that made it too heavy to be competitive. Good looking car, made HRM cover when it was yellow.


Unknown roadster class (looks like a coupe with the top cut off), at a drag strip in Montana


This from Don Ewald's site...I think that Doug Peterson took this picture at San Gabriel in around '58. No ID on either car, this would have been the gas-only era.

 

George, the other pix look era correct but this one is definitely post 61-63 as it has zoomies and also what look like Good Year Blue Streaks. It is Bobby Langley's Scorpion V , probably from around 1965.

Roo

 

Actually I think it is a Sport Coupe judging by the reveal at the top of the door and rear quarter panels and the windshield frame.

Roo

 

Bogus, Photoshop image.

Roo

 

Yep! Even though the tonneau cover and paint color are both different this appears to be a couple of iterations of the second Bo-Weevil. Both photos show the car with Autolite and Schiefer decals on the cowl side. The first one (that Raymond restored quite a few years back) had a Chassis Research K-88 style frame and no tonneau cover.

Roo

 

It's a Cabriolet, the 3 hinges on the door is the giveaway , along with the upper reveal you mentioned.

 

Marty,
they were called Sport Coupes in Oz and I was going to mention the hinge but figured that the reveal was enough to identify it.

Roo
ps Keep up the good work on the Spalding deal for Too Tall--awesome build