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

I misunderstood your post! God I am getting senile!

 

Gary, welcome to the old fart's club...we are all losing it!!

 

Huh? Who are you and why are you relying to me?
Oh, my name is Gary too! Please to meetcha, ever go on the HAMB?

 

Another DD shot. Dragster coming down track for the turn around.

 

Nice coupe. Nice crowds

 

Nope, that is one of the hemi cars Gary.

Roo
ps I have my photos saved on three computers and a couple of portable hard drives.

 

Here is the film that inspired my SmokeFest posts! The 1965 Hot Rod Magazine Championships!
Marty Strode, check out the young "Ace"!

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcslCXecPG8#t=20

 

I'll play!

 

I have never seen this car.

 

Neither have I! At first I thought, "Man, that looks like a long wheelbase for a F/C"!!! But then after a few seconds I realized that it's because it's a mid-engine job! Probably why a lot of people haven't seen this car before.

E.T.A.- Turns out there more mid-engined Funny Cars than I remembered.

http://www.draglist.com/artman/publish/daily_stories/article_1081.shtml

 

One of the mid-engined floppers that appeared in the early '70s. It was a nice car with lots of magazine coverage. Unfortunately didn't run that well and ended up as a sand racer.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Platapus?

 

Wounded?

 

Too lengthy to post here, I'll provide a link to Bill Dunlap's site for a great piece of history on 60's top fuel by Jim Rockstadt. Both guys are RACERS racers, if you don't know who they are, they both are veteran drivers who have done it all for fifty years! This story of the Bev's Steak House AA/FD typifies the 60's! A good read.
http://capracing.com/2012_news.html

Here's Cordy Jensen at the 66 Bakersfield March Meet.I witnessed the total destruction of the car later at Woodburn.Take a few minutes and read, you won't regret it!

 

SMOKERS! Here's a nice color shot at Woodburn. This was a Woody car, motor by Columbia Racing Engines. As a 14 year old I was IN LOVE with this car! Not a burnout, SMOKIN the M&H's!!!
Now THIS is a DOUBLE A FUEL DRAGSTER!!!

 

Gary, this is a great story, had no idea that the car crashed that badly, clutch explosions got really bad in those days (remember Jim Nicholl at the nationals)...for some reason I remember a Bev's Steak House car that Fuller build as a "magic-car" with the pointed nose....was that a later car?