I thought maybe he was checking out the hot chick in the Daisy Duke's and bikini top leaving the beer stand....it sounds good anyways... Sent from my QTASUN1 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I wonder what became of this car ? It was too beautiful to part out, like a lot of obsolete cars did after they retired from racing.
For me it's the rear wheel cut outs. How they actually wrap around the slicks below the axle center line, Or maybe the chop. Or, the pointy nose and the exhaust cut outs. Whatever, he got it right
Mark Georgette, Sydney Australia. The photo is from Victoria's Heathcote Park Dragway and the lights etc are because the car was street driven. Read more about it here: http://markgeorgette.blogspot.com/ Roo
Pete Lodge--New Zealand--a very well known and historic car in the land of the long white cloud. You can read about it right here on the HAMB. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/baloo-pete-lodges-fiat-altered.541201/ Roo
That's Nolan White in the seat of the Dean & White roadster. It's running the blown SBC that Nolan ran in his Bonneville A/Sports Racing car. The little Chevy pushed the Bonneville car to 240mph. The roadster now sits in Jim Lattin's garage/museum.
Fuel Altereds don't need to be handsome to get my vote but it don't hurt either. Roo I saw a photo years ago of the Magnificent 7 car on the beach (not Lions), at least I think it was the 7 car, can't find it, do you know the photo, a neat shot.
"Real" Fuel Altereds AREN'T supposed to be "pretty"..! Shiny paint's ok, but yellow, pink, bright red, bright anything...are NOT AA/FA colors. As are shiny wheels...unpolished Halibrands and American wheels are a requirement. And speak of bright work, no polished blowers, manifolds, injectors, scoops, etc. Rocker covers....yea, maybe "year old", unkempt polish for all aluminum and magnesium. Mike
Not all drag racers were hoodlum hot rodders. While I was studying engineering at Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University) I rode a tricked out Honda 305 Super Hawk around campus. Once a guy noticed a row of Thompson Dragway win stickers festooned along the front fender and asked me if I was a drag racer. I said 'yes' and he wished me well. It turned out it was Peter A. Orner, PhD, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the school. He was very low key about his racing accomplishments - few on campus even knew about it. He went on to become a renown expert in the field of biomechanics of injuries, especially as related to traffic accidents. http://www.biomechanicsofinjury.com/background.html Another one of my many drag racer "hoodlum" heroes.
These are some random shot's of pages that have fallen from some of my magazine's through the years.... I don't think that I have posted them recently?.., Sent from my QTASUN1 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
June 1993 Street Rodder had a article called "Altered States" the next group are shots I took of the magazine pics Sent from my QTASUN1 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
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