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

Dale Schafer photo.

 

Dale Schafer photo.

 

Dale Schafer photo.

 

Dale Schafer photo.

 

It was BAD ASS! Fast as hell! I was there and took this picture.

 

First outing (prior to lettering) for the Martin, Miles, Wileman "Shaker" small block powered 48/215 Holden, Calder Park, Victoria, Australia.

Roo

 

Ken Spence, Mk 11 Zephyr (English Ford), 298 Ford power with 4 48IDA downdraft Webers, hence known as the Zepyhr/Cobra. The photo may be from an event that was run on public roads near his hometown of Kerang, Victoria, Australia.

Roo

 

Thanks Chase, see you in a couple of days.

Roo

 

nice pics your posting Gary....welcome back !

 

and Tommyd........

 

Thanks. Nothing else to do! I'll TRY to avoid recent repeats.

 

This has been posted somewhere on here, I think the old photo thread maybe by Gary Reynolds). I was hoping someone would recognize it and comment. It looks maybe like a RCS car even a little like the Surfers ( I know it has a blower belt idler and they didn't run one). or am I dreaming? also anybody recognize the track shut down area?

 

It's San Fernando, I'm thinking maybe Jess Sturgeon or....Jeep Hampshire?
I'm sure one of the SoCal guys will remember!

 

I don't think that track is Fernando as it had a creek on the left , plus the bridge up on Foothill Blvd that the strip ran under at the end with piles of dirt under the bridge too and no trees like that

The black top was not that clean & nice as in the pic

DND

 

I just tripped over this video on U-tube. It shows drag cars actually in motion
From the 1966 Dragfest event at Castlereagh, near Sydney, Australia. Bob Keith, Tony Nancy, my mate George "Bushmaster" Schrieber in Roth's Yellow Fang, Ron Colson, and Ash Marshall in the former Potter and Winters Vandal (now in the Garlits museum).


Roo

 

CORRECTION! IT IS DEFINITELY NOT SAN FERNANDO!

 

Note the Green Stamp sponsor and those front wheels!

 

CLASSIC 60's! Though the 55 was the king!

 

Obviously Petty

 

Got this Email from one of the Whiz Kids .

The picture was taken in 1965. Don Neal was the owner of the Kent Fuller car.
The engine belonged to " Old AA/Fuel Altered Guy had a black Fiat", can't remember his name tonight.
The old guys engine would blow up all the time. "Big Fires". Don could not keep a nice paint job on his car.
So he went looking for a new partner.
The Whiz Kids were racing Top Fuel with a great engine but the Jim Davis chassis just broke in half and we went looking for another chassis. So just make Don Neal a Whiz Kid and let him paint his car again.
Picture of the Shark Car attached, with the purple paint job which started the 1966 season.
The car was painted again "Yellow" towards the end of the year 1966.
Before we took it to the Formula One Grand Pre in Mexico City. and before the Worlds Finals in Tulsa.

 

Outstanding!

 

Albacracky. Bugs Bunny.

 

Brand special Cammer



Carbon Express FED




Charlie Allen II



Don Garlits Dart 2


Flying Dutchman



Melrose Missile Pits

Model A Drag Coupe Ford FE power



Jim The Painter




Ed Pink



Dragmasters C/G Anglia



Jack Williams aiming the aptly named Kamikazi 1 dragster.



JS Altered Lions




Jungle Larry Faust

 

Super Mustang dragster



The Bug Cecil County Dragway



The Bug at Lebanon valley




The Stellings Hampshire Red Stamp Car



The Wenderski & Winkel Top Fueler making a run at San Gabriel Drag Strip. John Wenderski was tragically killed driving the Black Beauty at San Diego Raceway in February 1964.





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