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

So that was your shot, posted on WDIFL without credit to you....I should have known, it is a great shot! (you can see the engine mounts more clearly in this photo, used connecting rods...)

 

Yes, that's where I found it....

 

Mike Sullivan's cars always seemed to look 'just right' to me. My other favorite Fiats were Jim Miles and RJS.

 

Sullivan's car still looks "just right" Gabe. I spent some time with him and the team at Bakersfield last weekend as I am collecting the parts to build a similar car. I watched Jeremy's first qualifying shot from the top end and even though he clicked it at around 1150 feet it still went 6.01. He and his dad won the "Chicago" style eliminator on Sunday.

Roo

 

296ardun, this is Richie's earlier car. The one that crashed at Epping was a Long with a full body as seen in Mike's photo of the clone that I built with owner Ernie Broughton at the wheel at Bowling Green

 

Mike Sullivan, right? Great shot.

 

Thanks, Roo, the clone is spot-on!

 

Looks like visitors have limited free access to the site. But membership for full access runs $5.95 a month. I'd definitely drop them a line, Doug.

 

Missionarc-31 by Fedman posted Oct 28, 2015 at 11:07 AM

Mission Raceway 1978

 

Is this the same car that you raced in the 90's,Brian?

 

Hi Boyd,
Yes... It is the same one

 

It is a pay per view - here's what he says about it Doug;

7-01-15: Now, more than ever, I NEED your support. WDIFL is close to going the way of thousands of other enterprises that the "new economy" has trashed and trust me, I'm not getting a bail out.

Your membership doesn't just give you total access to the largest drag racing website in the world, but also insures that it will carry on when I'm gone. Monies not spent on site maintenance goes into an account that will ensure the site stays online until the funds run out. The more funds, the longer our history will be available.

There has to be race fans out there who still care about the preservation of drag racings history, is it you?

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. WDIFL will continue as long as there is some support, but with little or no support it will go away and there will be no one left to save it. This massive archive of photos and history will simply disappear.

 

" in the lights, no ID on car or track...mountains in back, maybe Utah? Anyone?" Hank Westmoreland in Don Johnson's Beachcomber, 1969, looks like Bakersfield.

 

GilGilletteJrFuelearly70s_jpg by Fedman posted Oct 28, 2015 at 3:09 PM

 

Aww don't be so hard on longtime racer Don Ewald, he's worked selflessly for many years on WDIFL, hardly has gotten rich. AND Don is very protective of the pics, he ALWAYS gives credit (if possible) and almost all the pics are submitted by members.
It wouldn't be the first ( or last ) time somebody took credit for something that wasn't theirs.
I'm not a pro photographer, but there are several of my pics floating around the web. At first it irritated me, now I'm just glad they have survived.

 

I think that Gary is right here...I have been a paying member of WDIFL for many years, and have contributed info (sometimes right!)...I don't think he purposely does not give credit...yes, it would be good to ask the photographer for permission before posting, though to be fair it is hard to find the photographers of pictures taken maybe 50 years ago...it is a great site, though, and hopefully more HAMB members will pay membership to keep it alive.

 

Around '61, pretty advanced for its time...didn't work, though, but give Mickey credit for innovation...


Nelson and Martin Dragmaster at the NHRA Nationals...'59, I think?


Jeep Hampshire in Chet Herbert's twin-F-85 car...(if Howard could run a board for downforce, so could Chet)


LeRoy Chadderton at Cordova, IL...there was not a lot of money for the touring fuel altereds, but still a number of them towed from the West Coast to race around the country.


Maybe '66 or '67? Ricky Tope, Oxford, Michigan, Top Gas, 426, Logghe chassis, Pomona '67 (thanks, afan)



No ID, Crower injectors...Anyone?? (afan: Tommy "The Watchdog" Allen in a Woody trick car (can't see the trick front end in this shot)...car has now been restored, and Tommy got to cackle in it...


Clyde Morgan's Vicious 'Vette racing Jungle...back when funny cars started out with stock bodies


Vicious Vette at Lions


Butch Maas grenades a blower in Tony Waters' fueler




Early shot of Coney Island Ralph and partners...engine by Jack Merkle..thanks to 1934coupe for the information.


Maybe Wilton and Doss, though the body colors are not what it was restored to... Wilton & Doss ran a BB Chev with painted black valve covers...anyone else?


This looks like the Woody house car that Paul Sutherland drove...maybe the second version after Paul rolled the earlier car at Bakersfield?? (early version had a clear plastic front wing)

 

These are pretty fuzzy, from Drag News, May 3, 1958, but a couple of historical cars:


This is the first picture I have found of the Hustler before it was the Hustler, on gas, unblown, no front nose...less than a year later it would win the first Smoker's meet over Tony Waters, running a top-mounted blower on fuel.


We remember the really minimal rear engined car that Red Case drove ... wondered how he survived it...here it is with a body....there are different stories about the car that Red died in at Vacaville, Don Ewald says it was a more traditional slingshot....

 

I think it was a new Christman & Cannon woody car that turned over the next day at Bakersfield, doing the same kind of a tank slapper and went over the same way