Vintage shots from days gone by!

G'day Mart, my magnifying glass is "old school" Cheers, Henry

 

Hotrod clubs could approach the local City Council back then and organise a drag race meeting on the streets [closed for traffic]
Impossible to do today with our PC safety regs


Check out the safety shoes on the race starter

And the hearing protection

 

Al least we know 'texting and driving' wasn't the cause.

 

oops got it wrongThanks for that info Kerry.Although we did export Holdens to our mates over the ditch

 

^^^^^^ Seeing these two pics Kerry just posted reminds me just how ugly all the Standard Vanguards were ^^^^^^

 

Kopuku Dragway

Check out the Zoomies through the hood of the Hillman Husky [it obviously had a heart transplant]


A couple of FJ Holdens



Dragsters


The track control tower [high tech] this is how it was back then.

 

For some reason they were a favourite for demolition derby's

 

Second maybe to Super Snipes?

 

she looks like Judith Durham

 

I'm confused here, those appear to be Ford GPWs, but Chevrolets in the back ground?

 

Yeah the Snipe became extinct reasonably quick because of that.
I remember running off the road coming down the Kaimais in one of those. The driver dozed off, I reached over and pulled on the wheel and back on the road and kept going , after destroying a farmers fence.
They were tough old monsters.