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

Just something that I spotted online while looking for some info....

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Far side Doss, Clayton, King.

 

I think that this is Joe Shubeck's gas car, from Lakewood, OH


I thought this might be Pancho Gonzales Cad-powered dragster...but not sure...photo by Cornell Miller


Peggy Hart, one of the first women competitors in drag racing


Two Midwestern dragsters, no i.d. on either...anyone? (Update, Christmas Tree updated this photo: flathead dragster was called the "Turpined Cat," (from a joke, see below), and was strong for its day...photo from Terre Haute, IN, around '58.)


I think that this is an early version of the Mooneyham, Ferguson, Jackson, and Faust dragster, running Sharp aluminum heads, at Lions


Knapp & Westerdale twin, far side, running against an unidentified modified roadster. I think that the roadster was once on the cover of HRM when it ran carbs.


Holly Hedrich at Paradise Mesa, with the Blair Brothers Speed Shop-sponsored car. Holly was a dry lakes car and early dragster builder, later ran the Hedrich-McClure rear-engine modified roadster. Behind the Blair Brothers car is the Dahm Brothers roadster, also, like Holly, from the Pasadena CA area. The Blair Brothers Speed Shop was run by Don Blair and his brother Bruce, until Bruce met an untimely death (when I worked there, we never talked about it). I just found this picture last night, have never seen it before.

 

I'd venture an agreement that the blown Cad is Pancho Gonzales rail. The 55 Ford push car is most memorable.
I remember what I think was brother Ralph's teal 55 sporting Caddy hub caps and I think also Caddy powered.
I always thought it was funny at San Fernando; as they would make several tuneup runs, but Ivo would just show up late in the day and take TE right off the trailer

 

296 ARDUN No. 4 from the top of your post with the flathead dragster. The flathead was called the Turpined Cat and was very strong for the day. Photo was shot at Terre Haute, Indiana about 1958. Mr. Shaw would always sit the top eleminator trouphy as you see it, forward of the line so you could see what you were running for.

 

This post is a clip from a thread/post submitted by JB a week or so ago in Jalopy Journal. I can identify quite a few racers at Lions and San Fernando, but some still elude my research or my memories. If you can help, that would be great. names/owners/motor, etc.

Hello,

Can anyone identify this portion of Harry's video? (starting at 5:34) I cannot clearly read the name of the Altered Fiat, even though it has two names. It looks like a "C" as the first letter. It ran at San Fernando and at Lions Dragstrip between 1959-60.


The Altered Fiat looks like a version of the 1960 Albertson Olds blue Fiat Coupe that Leonard Harris and then after him, Tom McEwen drove to many victories in So Cal.

ANY INFORMATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED...

Jnaki
Some of my old Lions Dragstrip films have the same day/year, and same racers. It is cool to see a different prospective and at a different angle of the racers at the time. Kudos to the movie maker...Harry? NO OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION IS PROVIDED BY YOU TUBE.

HARRYS VIDEO

 

LOL! Wonder if it might have been called the "Turpentined Cat"? Would have been an appropriate name for a race car, according to this old joke I found online.

A little boy was sitting on the curb with a gallon of turpentine and shaking it up and watching all the bubbles. A little while later a Priest came along and asked the little boy what he had. The little boy replied, "This is the most powerful liquid in the world, it's called turpentine."

The Priest said, "No, the most powerful liquid in the world is Holy Water. If you take some of this Holy Water and rub it on a pregnant women's belly, she'll pass a healthy baby."

The little boy replied, "You take some of this here turpentine and rub it on a cat's ass and he'll pass a Harley Davidson."

 

Thanks!...I'll update the caption.

 

Raise your hand if you remember the cartoon.