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

You are correct. First run I was REALLY easy on it off the line, and second run it just went poof. It also had #24 nozzles in it that were fouling plugs every run. SUPER rich. I have a myriad of changes that will happen before it runs again: Crank snout support, #18 nozzles, CP pistons, TA Rollers, Nitrided crank, etc....etc.... The Strange bird will be brought back to life bigger and stronger!

 

x2!!!!!

 

Jack's Hudson was purchased in early 64 by a Portland,Or stock class racer named Ed Weir. We raced Ed in the Hudson at Madras Dragway that year with a 52 Olds and came up loser like everyone else. Ed sold the car to another Portland racer Marv Walker who continued with success. I wonder it is today.

 

Drag Strip is Pomona Winternationals, either '63 or '64 based on the California "black plate" (issued in '63)

 

Hey, thanks. Good eye.

 

I love old ingenuity. You dont see that anymore.

 

Hrm 65

 

Eagle Field 2011

 

I like the Stude funny car in the background of post #27123.

 

A few years ago, at E'Town's FUNNY CAR REUNION, I did a long and in-depth interview with Jim "Fireball" Shores, the fellow who was half of the "Shores & Hess" Gasser team... Jim Shores had a huge scrapbook with him, stuffed with pics and press clips from his Gasser and "Fireball" Vega years (you see me holding it in the pic below)... Jim had a press clip in the book telling of a time when one of their Gassers drove off the track and went into the woods-- I spent a good deal of time with him going page by page through the scrapbook, we (Drag Racing Underground) put the whole interview on our FUNNY CAR REUNION RAW dvd... It's an honor to meet REAL pioneers like Jim Shores-- And be able to give them an outlet to share their stories and tales of drag racing's past... Below is the pic... "The Doc" (Celebrity Drag Racing Authority & Visionary)...

Jim Shores and I get down to the nitty gritty of drag racin' history for the Drag Racing Underground camera-- It's hearin' tales like when his wayward Gasser went flyin' into the woods that makes me love my job...

 

Very cool Diana.

 

http://youtu.be/15GVdObX3Sw there's a video i made with some drag racing at beaver springs pa with a twin engine slingshot blowing the tires off all the way down the strip

 

Thunder Valley Dragways
Marion, SD
5/30/11

 

Not to step on anyones toes fellas but we need to keep the photos about 1968 and older to keep this thread afloat. Thank you.

 

Thunder Valley Dragways
Marion, SD
5/29/11

 

"Not to step on anyones toes fellas but we need to keep the photos about 1968 and older to keep this thread afloat. Thank you."

I'll second that.

 

Motion carried....

 

Agreed! don't mind the new photo's.. there cool to see but not in here!

keep this thread strictly for vintage photo's!

I swear I must be on my 3rd mouse thanks to this thread and all the "right click, save as, left click's" Keep up the great work guys.. this has to be the best thread on the net!
Cheers....
Hemifried

 

didn't we just have a similar discussion on this a couple of weeks ago and stated that nostalgia race cars do not belong in this thread? even if they are pre-68ish cars and flathead-powered fed?

 

Maybe we should lead by example...

 

well, now there's (above) something you won't see at a nostalgia race, right there...
Thanks, Skip, for being such a diplomat, not a dip...a diplomat .

 

Get it together people.

 

Here you go Detroit 1959 street sport