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

The brown/gold colored dragster is super looking. The tin work looks 'big time'. Great proportions. The aircraft wheel is a plus on this car. Could be getting ready to race Cook & Bedwell or waiting for "Big". That big window '56 in the background kind of narrows down the time frame. Sure would like to know who built this one. Anyone?

 

I couldn't agree more!

 

Benny Osborn

Roo

 

Gordon Collett

Roo

 

Norton Brothers?

 

More from the Bison Dragways - Manitoba Canada

All credit to Richard Wood Photography

 

The first Junior dragster ?
This kid's Dad is very cool !!

 

Nice set of photos Haz.

 

Same car early and later.

 

McMinnville, Or 1962, Potter Bros (Spokane Wa.) '61 Starliner - 401hp, a real runner !

 

Tommy thanks you do a nice job posting great pic's as well. Keep it up

 

I second that idea.
Both of these people are living legends in the world of drag racing and to remove this picture is almost a crime in my view. There are exceptions to every rule!!!
Jimbo

 

We don't make the rules. Just enjoy this for what it is, which is a pretty darned nice place in my opinion.

 

410 Edsel and a 4 speed

 

I've heard of fenderwell, ch***is, tri-y, block huggers, and step headers, but I can 't quite nail these down.

 

Found some more old pictures from Bakersfield (Famoso), track opened in the mid-50s as "Minter Field," indicating its earlier status as an Army Air Corps training field:


Here is another shot of the gold dragster I posted earlier, no ID...even a chrome rear end housing


Jarvis Earl's Buick powered dragster. Jarvis was from La Canada, where he was a neighbor of Don Montgomery, first ran a straight-8 dragster with a body like the gold car above, then built this slingshot...Tom Dyer, who later drove the Ansen & Pink dragster, is driving here.


Ed Losinski, in the "Purple Car," near lane, racing Jim "Jazzy" Nelson in Nelson's side-by-side flathead powered car. Notice that the orange orchards across Famoso Road have yet to be planted. (Jack Chrisman later bought Ed Losinski's car, made it into a slingshot, and ran a gas blown Chrysler in it).


and, speaking of Jazzy Nelson, here is his old Fiat compe***ion coupe at Bakersfield after he sold it...once held the world drag racing ET record with a fuel flathead.


Here is a better look at Ed Losinski's dragter seen above...here he is running Harry Duncan's Chrysler...Duncan, who invested in some really nice drag cars, owned a construction company, "Duncan-Built Homes," as seen on the door of the Ford pickup, also painted "Duncan Purple." Harry also partnered with Art Chrisman, a**** others.

Bakersfield from the air....you can see how huge the place was (and still is)


Later Bakersfield, Jerry Ruth vs. Bob Hightower, 1967.