Pre-traditional... or...old, old school

This is a pic my Dad gave me yesterday. I had seen it a few times before, when I was younger, but today, now, it has hit me pretty hard.
Its my Grandfather, in his race car. I don't know the year... hell, I don't even know what the car is. I do know its pretty damn cool and I wish I had the chance to meet him; at least once.
This is where I got the bug, this is my family...
this is tradition!

 

I should have mentioned that I don't have a scanner and had to take a digital pic of a copy of a copy of a...
He also gave me a couple of others... like this...
My Uncles Nick and Ted built this to race around 1966 or 1967. Did all of the work themselves:

 

Damn, i expected to see a race horse hooked to a chopped Amish buggy !!

ok, had to come back and edit this...you did show me a race horse!
i dig old photo's.
Cool pics!!

Rat.

 

That home-brewed Mustang funny car ROCKS!!!

Any more pics of that thing????

PLLLEEEEEEAAASSEE???!!!

 

You gotta have some cajons to race a car with wood spoked wheels!

 

Hack, I'll see what I can do. My Uncles were more interested in runnin fast than takin pics.

 

hey mikey, was the moostang a 427/4 speed? and was it local, running at 30?

 

Wheres the 'stang now?What happened to it?Get some stories from yer dad or uncles and tell us.
Kill pics......Shiny

 

Wow those are some sweet cars!

 

man, that's coooool. those original racers were wild.

 

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hey mikey, was the moostang a 427/4 speed? and was it local, running at 30?

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I'm 99.9% sure it was the 427 combo you spoke of. I'm tryin to scare up some more pics to post this weekend.