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

Big Daddy making smoke...

 

Looking ahead...

 

Heads up

 

Graham Withers' American Airlines dragster, most likely at Surfers Paradise Raceway in Queensland, Australia with "Pommie" Pete Allen at the wheel. And no, he did not need any more traction as this was in the days before slider clutches.
Here is my shot of the same car coming in to the traps at that track. Not that the driver's helmet evidently was not strapped on very tightly.


Roo

 

Jess "The Flea" Sturgeon in 1965. Jess later ran the Cow Palace Shell series of top fuel cars

Roo

 

Gordon "Collecting" Collett

Roo

 

Unknown (to me) street roadster at Fremont.


The former Scotty's Muffler Service roadster, I think under new management from owner Bob Baugh, at Alton IL ...reportedly the roadster still exists somewhere, as does the Ardun.

Knapp & Westerdale twin, photo probably from Dennis Friend's "Two to Go," THE site for twins.


Early PVTA - Chuck Griffith, Dawson Hadley's Chrysler, I think...


I think that this was Ray Golightly, from Colorado. Packard power.


T at Saugus, from the Steve Muck collection.

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Charles "Boogie" Scott's Bantam bodied altered from New Orleans


Luther Wheat ran in the central California area for years with his Chevy 6 engines, very competitive, photo from the American Hot Rod Foundation.

 

Light it up...

 

Up in smoke...

 

Didn't Sammy Hale drive the Cow Palace Shell, early on ?

 

This is why modern Funny Cars and Dragsters (maybe even Pro Stock) do NOT use the wheel studs as drive components any longer.
There is five big triangles that are part of the hub, that locates into the back of a Nitro/Alcohol wheel center/hub.
The studs ONLY job today is to hold the wheel against the hub, NOT to drive the car.



Mike

 

The hub drive deal is only mandatory on the nitro burning big show cars. The pro stockers still use flange type axles (no floaters) although some use a double bearing deal.

Roo

 

And the wheel missed me by just this much....

 

Crew chief said, "if you get into trouble... lift!" So I lifted.

 

Streamlined smoker...

 

Charles Fawcett posted this picture on a FB site I moderate, and I am reposting it here with his permission. This is Alex Xydias' dragster with an injected Ardun, taken at Pomona in 1956. Alex had a recent birthday (97, if I remember right), and Charles presented a framed version of this picture to him, which he signed. The picture is very rare as there are only two other known pictures of Alex's dragster, both with the blown Ardun, on Don Ewald's site. In the background is the team of Frank "Ike" Iacano and Dale Lambrose, both running GMCs, and possibly Ed Losinski's dragster at right behind the green Merc.

 

Here’s an reprint of an early photo of the Greer,Black and Prudhomme car, seems it wore red before it got it’s famous yellow paint scheme.



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Sure these are posted somewhere back in the other 1924 pages - always liked the red better.

 

"Hey! I'm over here!"

 

When your wheelstand decides to have its own wheelstand...

 

Bet that didn't end well.

 

my era -late 50's -60s. FYI to all in the group, due to my age (78) and lack of help/means to do it alone I sold Nitro Therapy AA/FD, it is not fair to ask help of others- they have their lives to deal with as well. mixed emotions -really loved the car and fun with it, but reality bites. thanks to all in the site who have been instrumental in making all this happen anyway. still around -no dragster. what is in the future? wait and see. thanks to all. Geri

 

This one's got some funky motion going.

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That is a true "rail" dragster.

 

Looks like a broken axle about to happen...

 

Here's some more racer's that got the funky motion going.
Everything from "Riding the Rail" to some"Slam-Jamin" Hell one guy even tried running the car "Inverted" down the track.

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