History Drag Roadsters............picture thread

Ray's Sunoco





Goodie



High Heaven

 

Looks like a Pontiac 4 cylinder

 

Jewel "T" note blocked spoke wheel

 

Loudbang the BB/A could have been in the ownership of Canadian Top Fuel racer Scott Wilson when this picture was taken. Wilson owned the car around 1961. The car was originally built in 1959 by Keith and Doug Ridler who were, I believe were from the London, Ontario Area.

After Wilson the car was sold to Miller and Gregory in London, Ontario, it won its class at Indy in the early 60's. Miller and Gregory ran it with both front mounted blower and a conventional top mounted set up. They sold the car to the Brothers Browns (there was an altered owned by the Brown Brothers from Detroit and thus the wording) who raced out of the Roadmates Club in Mississauga, Ontario. They removed the motor for their Fiat Altered and sold the roadster to Brooke DeShaw who ran it as a B/altered. Later it become the "Avenger" and then disappeared from racing. I understand that the car was made into a street rod in the Orillia, Ontario area but it has not been found. Apparently the front mounted blower motor is owned by a fellow from the London, Ontario area.

Thanks for posting that picture, never seen it before.

The car when DeShaw owned it with Performance Improvement sponsorship.

 

Good stuff it's great when we can get the whole story about the cars from our members.

 

I really like that pickup roadster.

 

How about this nice one? Look at those tiny Slicks

 

This says Rock and Roll to me.

 

It says bitchen to me!!

 

Big piecrust slicks, parachute, tonneau cover, and an injected BLOWN HEMI what's not to like A LOT.

 

Love this thread and I could listen to Dean and y'all talk about racing back in the day all day long . I don't mean to start a shit fight but a lot of cars ran 4 bar back then. I thought that didn't start until the 70's. On with the show,,cheers

 

Otie's altered roadster

 

Pete & Jake took credit for innovating the 4 bar. In fact, Norm Grabowski and Tom Ivo used 4 bar front ends on their T buckets in the mid 50's.

 

cheers Dean

 

Lots of early dragsters and altereds used torsion front suspension, with the torsion bar arms being one set of 4-bar elements and an additional bar on each side to fix the caster location being the other set.

 

Rastetter



Ron Ellis



Note the very short exhaust pipes



Speedmasters




The Instant "T"



Warlord
EDIT: from 64 Dodge 440 it should be WARLOCK


Willy

 

Believe it was "Warlock" not "Warlord".

 

Fixed it

 

Very early Pure hell before paint.

 

Not Speedmasters. Glen Way's his Ground Shaker Jr. Probably Gary Reed in the seat.

 

What's the big pulley for?



Isky



Tony Nancy

 

I'm going to guess injector pump. Maybe oil. Picture of oil pump on '28 Chevy. I have also run the fuel pump off the same drive, at times. To cheap to buy "Race" pulleys. I use cam drive pulleys. These off a Gold Wing. Guy in the picture might be cheap to.

 

LOL that is an OLD photo don't think gold wings were out yet LOL. But good guess I was thinking pan evacuation maybe.

 

I have used FIAT, Pinto, and Jensen-Healey pulleys before. Datsun and Toyota are probably the same. Every one i have looked at was the same. Then I just get a Gates, Dayton or Goodyear belt. A lot less than Summit. Here is an OIL/Fuel pump drive using Jensen-Healey (Lotus 907) pulleys. Whatever you can find at the junkyard. Easy to do.

 

It's a Hilborn pump drive. Early ones used a V belt before small timing belts were around. We ran one like that on my RPU until we switched to the mag/pump drive. The V belt would flip over above 6 grand. We even made an idle pulley tensioner that got it up to about 6500 before the belt flipped over.

 

First injector i ever had used a BL pump in the distributor drive. I had an EVM (Ron's Racing) injector that used a V belt drive. Turned plenty of RPMs with that 2 liter Pinto motor. Seemed OK.

 

Chris Swift "Swifty"

at dover