Looked around, don't think this has been posted yet...Could be wrong... Coop's blog has awesome footage in three parts of the 1959 drag racing nationals in detroit. It looks to feature Dragmaster from the new Rodder's Journal, haven't watched the whole thing yet. Anyway, here's the link: http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/2006/09/ingenuity-in-action.html
I was there in 1960 seen some of those cars in the video run, still have my ticket stub, don't ask me why after all these years. The tickets were $1.46+.05 tax, total to get in $1.51, can't even buy a bottle of water for that today.
I was there. Somewhere, I have about 50 pictures of all the cars. In the third movie here, you see the Ramchargers first car, "The High and Mighty" Dodge or Plymouth. The announcer calls it the RamRod. Them were the days....
My last year in Detroit. What a blast watching the beginnings of hotrodding. Here is a photo of the next dragmaster machine when I was flagging at the old Golden Triangle Dragstrip in Florida.
I have that on a DVD with a couple other videos on it. Heres another one of the videos that was on it. pretty cool racing/safety promo video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5851344091937046529&q=hot+rod&hl=en
One of the cars that I still remember was the DCB coupe, a red 32 hi boy 5 window coupe with air tubes sticking out the hood also the high and mighty and I might Jack Moss's twin engine dragster. Makes you long for the good old days
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