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

Great stuff Gary, love the picture of Gary Dyer doing his thing. You are right. Balls of STEEL!

 

Thanks Roo
Just seeing all the photos of the cars smoking both tires all the way down the track I was thinking they ran a locked rear.

 

Obviously, Jack Merkle

 

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Now THESE were the days!

 

Stellings & Hampshire S&H Red Stamp Special.

 

More S&H , In my view, one of the prettiest dragsters ever.

A Fuller MASTERPIECE!

 

Some Sid Waterman cars, including Waterman & Hampshire.
Sid's Speed Inc. rail at Fremont; July 01, 1962
Bob Brown photo

 

Ronnie Goodsell in Sid's Clearspark Spl. vs. Tom Hanna at Ramona, 1963.
Bob Hardee photo

 

Sid's Clearspark Special


Staged shot of the original Waterman-Hampshire top fuel dragster in 1965.

 

The Waterman-Hampshire dragster was of a design that Roy Steen and Frank Huszar called "The Haze Series." It accelerated over the first 300 feet so hard, Big Bob Haines was once heard to say, "…..it doesn't cloud em, just hazes them."


Tom Mitchell, Ron Martin, Sid Waterman, Sam Nicolosi, Bob Bradley, And Ronnie "The Hangman" Hampshire; Fontana Drag City, Jan. 24, 1965. They had just set a new world record of 7.51 backed up with a 7.62.

 

Ron Rivero in the K&G Speed Associates AA/FD at Englishtown in 1969.
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The Caspery-Stokey-Hampshire fueler warming up during the 1965 Fuel & Gas Championships.
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Paul Stevens in the "Little Puffer" from Terre Haute, Indiana, circa 1960.

 

Powers & Riley out of Iowa with Dave Powers at the helm.

 

This is A&B Speed Shop B/FD out of Sommerville, Mass in 1965.

 

Jesse Perkins Cow Palace Shell AA/FD

 

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Gary Cassidy's "Agitation" AA/FD in the pits at Bakersfield in 1965.
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Norm Weekly in the Airline Auto Sales , 1965 tour.

 

The fueler of Ken Warren & Bob Crowe with Jack Williams in the seat during the '66 Fuel & Gas Championships.
Perhaps the greatest fuel race ever!

 

The Garlits chassied, Andrews-Fisher- Fraley..." Blue Angel" out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
also at Famoso.

 

The Arizona based "Big Red" AA/FD of J.T. Stewart, Lefty Little & Don Estes at the 1965 Fuel & Gas Championships. They qualified 8th in 1965 with a 7.69 @ 193.54.