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

296Ardun...The photo above of Langleys old Scorpion 1...was run by Bob Taylor and called the "Red Hoss"...
Bob is from Dallas.

 

Thanks Gary, I will check out the other thread. So they went to that much trouble to get 389 cubes. COOL factor is way up!!

 

For D/Dragster on gas, there was a D/Fuel class too.
4 and six bangers and straight eights. Maximum of two engines.

 

Thanks! I knew it was the "Red Horse" but forgot that Bob Taylor ran it...Red Horse because he ran a Mobil Station?

 

Sorry,you missed it again,,It was NOT "Red Horse' it was "RED HOSS"..Bob worked for Mobil Oil as a tank truck driver
delivering gas to various stations.

 

Well, I was close! Guess I have to get to Texas more often to figure out what y-all call a horse...

 

Here's a good shot of Ringer's & Saunders "Eight The Hard Way".

 

Hahahahahaha.come on over...where do you think "Hoss Cartwright" is from?

 

I thought the Ponderosa was in Nevada?

 

Here's a rarely seen car., All steel, this 64 Corvair never ran big numbers but was a regular in SoCal.

 

"Hoss Cartwright" Dan Blocker was a native of Lubbock,Texas

 

Dan Blocker (Hoss Cartwright) with his Huffaker-built Nickey Chevrolet Genie Mk10
road racer.Not a drag car, but a Hoss car!

Same car after repaint.

 

Bet Nader would shit himself over this one.

 

Hoss also had a Z-16 Chevelle, a real car guy.

 

Chevrolet was a big sponsor of Bonanza.

 

I don't remember who ran this rear engined roadster, except that it had a fin on the headrest and was Pontiac powered


Or this one, anyone? ( just found it, HRM, Nov. '58: Charles Kleckner, Great Neck, Long Island, NY, won B/MR at the '58 Nationals, Chevy powered, 113mph)


Gary Cagle, Bakersfield, looks line Bobby Langley behind him...


I think this is Doug Cook, before SWC, he ran a blown sbc.


Johnny Burrell, from Birmingham, AL, McCulloch blown Chrysler, got a spread in HRM

Early Breschini and Argee, before the blower. This was a steel bodied roadster with a channel frame...later would get a tube frame but kept the steel body...from the Sacramento CA area, if I remember correctly...several other racers got involved in this roadster as it evolved, Fred Sorensen, and the Burkholder Brothers.

 

CMIIW he had the one and only Z-16 convertible.

 

Who dat?

Pat

 

Dan Blocker! Hoss Cartwright. Jeeez, read the thread!

 

We are kinda drifting here, but I know Marty is reading the thread.
Last I heard Gary Coe was building a new 57 Ford Gunfighter.
I know he races (?) a new Mustang, but do you know anything about this?

 

The second to last competitive steel bodied fuel altered was the Argee -Sorensen roadster. Here's Don Argee getting trailered by the last competitive steel bodied car (2 straight). Yes, I was there.

 

I don't think that ever materialized, but I have heard about the new car, it's a modern Ford of some kind.

 

Outstanding photo!