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

Imagine this for your Friday night….

 

Norm Cowdrey ? or Kyle Sieple ?

 

Wednesday night quiz time...name the car based on this chassis?

 

That’s the Doug Nash Bronco Buster.

 

Mostly aluminum. I think it weighed under 1000 pounds.
Controversial, by NHRA standards.

 

Two Legends.

 

Not 100% sure.

 

SCARY

 

No secret I love my 60’s Ford Drag cars….

 

Brissette & Sutherland by Alan Earman...

 

When Larry moved to the Midwest, he hooked up with several engine guys and ran their engines in his roadster, which he originally built in California. I think that Harvey Goldberg, whose Olds Larry also ran, was from Michigan, and Dave Powers was from Dubuque Iowa --- when I wasted the Herbert roller lifters in my own Ardun, I wrote Dave to see if he had any, but by then he had sold his Ardun stuff. I am guessing that Larry may have run into Dave at a midwest drag racing meet and the Powers and Riley team raced all over the midwest.

 

A little bit of history gone.
The property that "Russ Davis Ford" (Covina) was situated on, a little over a year ago, turned into "several", crammed together, condominium units, and a couple of small shops !
The original dealership sat empty for MANY...years, until it was finally sold and made into dwellings.



Mike

 

One more of Arlington WA. from a high school kid's photography class.

 

I agree….was supposed to have a Comet…guy backed out and my Falcon Futura was as close as I could get

 

Mike I always say California was a magical place after WWII until about the mid 80’s…was always my dream to live there as a youngster growing up in the cold Mid West…now many friends I have that were So Cal natives are retiring and moving away…all day it’s not the same place they were born and raised…

 

Johnny, I am certain that is Dale Greer. I will look up the article in HR from '61.

 

Yeah, pretty much.
I moved away for about 8 years, then ended up back just a short distance from where I grew up, in about 1980. Things had changed, but not by a lot yet.
About the last ten or so years, things have changed...a lot. Although...Clippinger Chevrolet, across the street from Russ Davis Ford...is still there. Well, the property and building are. I think there's a fight between the city and what's left of the Clippinger family.

The little gas station, on the south side of the Russ Davis property, where a lot of racers hung out in the mid to late 60's, got turned into a small shop, then about a year ago, got leveled and became a modern building.

I wish I would have had the forethought to take a bunch of pictures of the area, back in 1965 or so..!

Now back to you regular picture station !

Mike

 

Mike, Hindsight is always 20/20.