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

296-thanks. I like how you put your posts together and give the info you know. You were there and your passion for the old days still shine here.

 

The Hunter roadster was displayed at the NHRA Museum a couple years ago. It's not really restored. Just cleaned up and touched up a little, and put in running order. Creighton sold it to Hill Alcalla who drag raced the shit out of it for years, always with the flathead motor. It's still in the family. Hill's son now owns it, and is the one who got it back in shape.

Here's a photo I took of the roadster at Pomona in 1959. The car has not changed!

 

Ken Crawford's "Kenz Muffler" car is undergoing restoration by the best man to do it, Kent Fuller !!!! This picture is several months old.

 

It was well before my time in the US but it looks more like Irwindale to me--snack bar in the background and power poles.

Roo

 

Don't know what you've done different, but this round of pictures open just fine.
Thanks hazguy.

Mike

 

I think you are right, snack bar in the smoke, Pomona's was in the pits, or near the pits (I remember standing in line at the Pomona snack bar, when the guy in front of me turns around and says "you know that hot dogs are made of pig intestines, I know, I work at a slaughterhouse! So when he gets to the window, "gimme twelve hot dogs!").

 

"Grave Gambler" at Santa Maria, Fred Dannenfelzer started with one engine, would add another as the car evolved:


This time two blown Chryslers...this was probably '59 or '60, every early in blown Chrysler history...Fred is known more as a Bonneville/dry lakes guy, whose fuel modified roadster and lakesters often set records there...


Tom Hoover, this car was really well finished, either before or after he abandoned the SOHC Ford...not sure where this is...Las Vegas?


I posted a shot of this race above, not sure who these guys are, but these lower gas cars were very popular with the fans....Winternationals at Pomona. (from dmorago:
55 Chevy belonged (I believe) to Dick Chase from the Covina/Azusa area. It was black
56 Checy raced out of Scriber's Automitive. It was lemon yellow. The flared rear fenders were well done.)...always appreciate the information that IDs these cars!


Towards the starting line, Santa Ana, '57, the closest dragter was run by the Sea Horses Car Club, Jim Nelson of Dragmaster fame is pushing behind the roll bar...Hart & McCandless Blown Chrysler powered 5-window 715 in background, as is Creighton Hunter's flathead modified roadster, which I posted earlier, and, as Dean Lowe indicated, survives today after a long career under both Hart and Hill Alcala. The '37 Chevy coupe center left might be Doug Cook.


Winternationals...sometimes the lettering was just in shoe polish...


A much younger Jim Dunn, along with Henry Velasco, getting the trophy for A/A, Winternationals. Yes, Jim is still racing...


Laplace, LA...interesting that most fuel dragsters had gone to zoomie headers by mid-65, but not this crew


More Laplace, LA...have forgotten the ID for this Chevy fueler...anyone?


Marvin Schwartz at Laplace...this car has been nicely recreated


Lions in '63...I should remember this car as I saw it run, but....damn! Anyone? (Roo suggested this: Could it be the Potter and Winters car that later came to Australia as Ash Marshall's Vandal and is now in the Garlits museum? Not sure, but as I looked at it again, the scoop looks like the one that Joe Winters ran on his later fueler, so it could be...)


More Lions...I have an excuse for not IDing this car, lights went out??


More Lions, and more no IDs...not sure I would want the guy and his flash camera in my face on a dark night when I am getting ready to make a run.

 

Those old trailers are in demand with the Nostalgic racing guy's.
It gives your dragster that period correct look for sure. Having a tow car or truck from the same era even makes it all look Cooler !!!!!
Jimbo

 

Lions in '63...I should remember this car as I saw it run, but....damn! Anyone?

Could it be the Potter and Winters car that later came to Australia as Ash Marshall's Vandal and is now in the Garlits museum?

Looking at the photos now that they show up larger in the post the body configuration is a little different ahead of the motor so maybe not.
Roo

 

Think Hoover car was RCE chassis.

 

Check the paint!
I bet the material in that Bikini would make at least 3 today!
Not everything was better in the good old days.

 

Name certainly fits… especially in this photo...

 

55 Chevy belonged (I believe) to Dick Chase from the Covina/Azusa area. It was black
56 Checy raced out of Scriber's Automitive. It was lemon yellow. The flared rear fenders were well done.

 

Most of Tom's cars were RCE, you are right....I wasn't entirely sure but the caption was "Tom Hoover." I have not found many pictures of Tom's full-bodied car (body by Tom Hanna, I think), but here are a couple:


In both pictures the car had an Ederle injector instead of the Crower in the picture I posted, but while racers changed injectors, they didn't change chassis builders, so how to explain the "Kent Fuller Chassis" on the car?? First, the caption could be wrong, so whose car is it? There were not many cars with the swoopy tail piece so Hoover was a good try....but as ttwomotor notes, Woody built his cars (one was stolen, this might have been the replacement car). I can't read the writing on the nose and the driver's face is obscured, so any suggestions as to this car's ID are always welcome!

 

Thanks, Don, will add to photo...also found a picture of your Willys at Lions that I am going to post, if that's ok

Dave

 

I have a photo of toms car taken the third week of April 1967 but i don't know how to get it on the computer. I will see if my can do it when she gets home. It was at Thunder road in Denver Colorado

 

Re the "Tom Hoover" caption:

It is the Stellings and Hampshire car with a later paint job (than the C-T Strokers version). Here it is at Cacklefest IV with the original style paint.


And here it is in 296ardun's post from October 2014 in this very thread (post # 37129)

Read about it here:
http://cacklefest.com/Stellings-Hampshire.shtml

That said, I think that the Hoovers did have a Fuller car earlier on--The Hoover Special. This looks more Fuller than Woody to me.


Roo

 

Anyone that want's to re-live their youth in a FED. There is one for sale or trade on Baltimore's list for Craig.

 

That's it, thanks (forgot my own post!!)...weird thing is that it once went to Jim Busby, who lived two blocks away from me, we both attended Jr. high school together....)