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

Bill Dunlap

 

So sorry to hear that my condolences on your loss.

 

Sorry to hear of your loss...prayers sent.

 

Very sorry about your loss Dave. 49 years is a long time. Been married to my wife for 51. I'd be lost without her.

 

Ames Drag Strip

 

296ardun: condolences on your great loss.God bless you.

 

My prayers go out to you and your family.

 

My condolences to one of our finest contributors.
Sorry for your loss, 296ardun.

 

I'm so sorry for your loss, Ardun. My thoughts are with you and family.

Kevin

 

Looks like 53 Buick headlights in that 55 Chevy

 

I was married to mine for 46 years when I lost her. I am still lost without her.....Many of us share your loss, Dave, I am so sorry.

 

Thanks to all for your kinds words over my wife's passing....posting keeps me focused.


fuzzy picture at Santa Ana, early '50s.


Hawkins and Webster, 15oz coupe when it was still 96 (Bill Demarest's number), at Riverside, with its sky-blue paint. Les and Lyle ran unblown Chryslers in it for a while before it got its orange/red paint. Les got the car originally from Bruce McDowell of Bad News Coupe fame, and ran it for years, ultimately fitting it with several blown Chryslers. There is a very good article on it in the current Rodder's Journal. (My late wife did not always like my drag racing friends, but she did like Les and Lyle.)


Leslie Long's '36 drag coupe with a fuel flathead, I think he was from the Santa Ana area.


Ken Crawford in the Kenz Muffler injected fuel car at Santa Maria.


Pusch & Cain's Stuckey gas car, around '66.


I think that this might be the Dorricott and Sheenan altered, at Half Moon Bay. Very few Fiat-bodied altered coupes ran fenders, but actually they don't look bad on this car. Mouse on the front comes from the name Fiat gave to these cars: "Topolino," or "little mouse" in Italian.


Harry Duncan's '34 competition coupe at Pomona, photo by Norm Grudem. Harry was a building contractor and friend of the Chrisman's, and could afford the best parts. Later he sold this purple coupe to Serpia and Goodyear who ran it as the Pacific Auto Body Special, out of Long Beach.

 

I am posting these pictures to keep my mind focused. I lost my wife of 49 years on Saturday

Sorry to hear about your loss. Hang in there, always enjoyed your pic's and stories.

 

My best friend from 7 to 25 years old had a brother who went to school with Bruce McDowell. When Bruce sold the 34 and started building the Bad News Fiat, we rode our bikes from West Covina down to LaPuente to hang around out side Bruce's mom's garage and watch the build. The first version of the Bad News was orange with a Chrysler running 6 97's. When Bruce met Bob Sidebottom and Demar Ray, Bob shortend the Model A frame to it's scary 86" wheelbase and swapped in one of Demar's blown Hemis. When Bruce started his construction business, he sold the Bad News and was out of racing for some time.

 

296ardun -thanks for all the great photos you contribute. The HAMB grieves with you, brother.

 

I never saw an fuel altered with a shorter wheelbase....thanks, Dean for all this information that you saw first-hand, I didn't know it was first orange with a carbureted Chrysler...

 

296Ardun, so very sorry for your loss.

Thank you for your contributions here and hopefully that will keep your mind off the down side of life.

Rest In Peace

 

I will drive/have driven lots of wild stuff, but no way am I driving that nasty little booger!!

 

10 Wheels at dover



3 wheel At San Gabriel



Big Daddy



Big Daddy at dover



Big Daddy Smoken them up

 

Sorry for your loss Dave.

 

I saw Bob make a lot of passes in the Bad News and, surprisingly, never saw him get out of shape! Even at Fontana, which was notoriously a "loose" track, he made 3 hard passes to beat Bruce Woodcock, in the Rakers coupe for a spot on the JR. Eliminator list. That was a fun Sunday afternoon.

 

296 Ardun Sorry for your loss. Mike.

 

Butt Dragger

 

I believe the photo of Don Garlits was from 1964 at Dover Drag Strip and I was one of those guys you see in the photo behind the fence watching.
Jimbo

 

Repost ?

 

Len Freebern archives. T-Bolts.

 

So sorry for your loss Arden. You will see her beautiful smile every time you see the sun come up.

 

Thanks very much, Mark, I really appreciate your kind words.

 

Thanks very much, Mike.

 

Thanks so much!