Otto Ryssman is credited with running the first real “Rail Job”. The car had morphed from the Crosley and was featured in the May ’52 issue of Hop Up Magazine. With a 296” Merc for power, Otto ran 126.86 mph. In this shot dated January 8, 1952 we see the car stuffed with one of the first Chrysler 331” Hemi’s used at the drags built up by Doug Hartelt. in ’54 Otto ran 140.08 mph at Santa Ana in the scary machine. Safety has come a LONG way
The Howard Cams car must have made quite an impression. Here are two cars that were record holders in 1952
Art Arfons showed up for Bonneville Speedweek in August 1961 with his Arfons-Sneider twin-supercharged 1,710 “ Allison Aircraft engined Class A Streamliner from Akron Ohio that ran as car number 222. We wonder how Art felt sitting up front without any “Feel” after Mickey Thompson and Nathan Ostich had decided not to run on the rainless and bumpy short course track. By the end of the week, Art had managed to run a quick 313.780 mph to take a first in class and top speed of the meet but was short of Mickey Thompson’s Challenger 1 record set in 1960 at 354.330 mph. Art went home questioning his car’s design concept. That’s Jimmy Deist on the right with his hand on his waist who looked after the 14” ring-slot chute used on the
Back on September 19, 1948 thirty-seven S.C.T.A. clubs gathered at the Lincoln-Mercury assembly plant in Maywood, California to officially join the National Safety Council. We see just a few of the cool rides that showed up including Doane Spencer’s famous Deuce on the left.
This August ’48 shot shows Don Olson of the Lancers in his number 101 Class B Roadster that ran 128.75 mph. The Model A was powered by a 248” ’41 Merc that was bored .070” and ran a .020 offset ground understroked crankshaft. It was fitted with Evans heads, Weiand intake, Potvin ignition, and Smith cam. It had 3.27 rear end gears and 6.00 x 15 skins out back. Fellow Lancers member Doug Hartelt gave Don something to shoot at by pushing the class Record to 134.93 mph at the first meet of the season in
National Geographic Magazine February 1960 Come see more ads and other things at https://misforgotten2.tumblr.com/
National Geographic Magazine November 1962 Come see more ads and other things at https://misforgotten2.tumblr.com/
The Red Book Magazine April 1922 Come see more ads and other things at https://misforgotten2.tumblr.com/
The Jalopy Journal
