Vintage shots from days gone by!

Gary Meadors first car.

 

San Gabriel Dragway Special




Mickey Thompson 4 cylinder





Jim Nelson
Dragmaster Dart Six






Quantico Joe Tucci

 

Relatively Rough Salt Was Blamed For Scary, 200 Mph Crashes By Two Fuel Burning Modified Roadsters. Jim Culbert Survived Multiple Rolls With Only Scrapes And Bruises In The Same Car That Went 205 At El Mirage Earlier This Year.





Dode martin (RIP)

Their Long Tow From San Diego County To Oklahoma City Rewarded Jim Nelson And Dode Martin With A Couple Of Nice Trophies. Their 283 Powered Dragliner Won C/Dragster In Record Time (124.30 Mph) And Was Judged Motor Trend’s Best Engineered Car Of The Third Annual NHRA Nationals. Martin Built The Chassis From Model T Rails While Nelson Bolted Together A 283ci Chevy At Their Masters Automotive Supply, Soon To Be Rechristened Dragmaster Co.








As Much As We Strive To Serve You Fresh, Unpublished Pictures, We Went With This One Even After NHRA Museum Curator Greg Sharp Advised That It Had, Indeed, Made Car Craft’s Dec. ’57 Nationals Coverage For Earning The CC Top Speed Award. However, Those Guys Neglected To Name The Smoker Hitchhiking With Art Arfons. We Asked Shari And Tim Arfons To Correct That Oversight. Tim Recognized Dale Arfons, Walt’s Brother And Art’s Stepbrother. A 1,650ci Rolls Royce Merlin Pushed Green Monster 11 To 152.54 Mph, A New NHRA Record.





Twin HOT ROD Magazine Specials And The Unser Family Swept USAC’s Season Finale At Riverside. Bobby (pictured In The Car, With Brother Louis Outside) Qualified On The Pole, Jerry Won Both The Race And Louis Was Named Top Mechanic. NHRA Officials Set Up Timers Near The End Of The 1.25 Mile, Downhill Back Straight And Clocked These Factory Supercharged Fords At 130 Plus.

 

Jim Rini



again




After Stuffing His Indy Roadster Into The Ditch on Pikes Peak 1957, Dick Whittington Ditched It Just Before Ted Foltz Entered This Same, Tricky Turn. HRM’s Ray Brock Shot these continuous shots










Would You Believe Craig Breedlove, Go Kart Pilot A Whopping 16 Cubic Inches Of Single Cylinder Standun Produced An Impressive Pass Of 93.84 Mph, in 1957 But No IStreamliner Record.

 

Bobby Langley Scorpion day.

Bobby Langley's Scorpion Top Fueler and his big Dodge pushcar at green valley. Note the SCOOP

 

Hello,

This sleek race car is one of the most innovative competition machines from the first time we saw it show up at Lions Dragstrip. The original Joe Mailliard/Paul Nicolini version was one of a kind. You can just hear that motor and chain rumble on the first fire up in the pits.

Joe Mailliard had his race shop just 4 blocks from our Long Beach house. We were lucky to be able to bicycle down to his shop to buy our Drag News papers and see what race cars were in the shop, weekly. But, the surprise was when we saw this Sidewinder firing up in the pits at Lions.

From 1958-60 when we were very active in drag racing, we were impressed with the sound, the look and the way it just took off down the strip. For Jack Chrisman, driving the Sidewinder, the "wins" just came naturally. They had some great races at Lions that I was able to capture on film during this time period. The Sidewinder had some epic races with the top racers of the day, Mickey Brown, Dragmaster, Lefty Muddersbach, Howard Cam Twin, and Kenny Lindley/Don Hampton, etc.



Jnaki

The sound clip was added last year when I edited my silent films with the 1959 Sidewinder sound from an LP album of drag racing sounds from the Detroit Nationals. The film: Lions Dragstrip 1959, the sound: 1959 Detroit Nationals, just like being there watching and listening. Turn it up!

Current restoration:

2017 Jack Gillett Lions Dragstrip Museum



Dave Kommel photo (Jack Gillett, Sidewinder)
Nitro Night Escondido 2017

 

..same car #40 ??

http://www.corazzelliphotography.com/Carshows/2018-Car-Shows/68th-Sacramento-Autorama/i-kqhMMmC/A

 

Always neat to see these 210 hardtops, I had a BelAir in high school and thought the sun set on them, but I really changed my focus.

 

Interesting chop on that coupe too

 

Lotta work in this one, really nice lines.

 

To all of those posting pics and posting pics with captions,
THANK YOU!!!!

 

What ever happened to all of the beauty salons anyway? You sure can't find one these days!

 

Sumpter Gold Dredge #3, Sumpter, OR. Ceased operations 1954, photo 1960.

 

Yes that is a tow bar

 

Excellent group of Corvairs @swi66, but you forgot my Dad's '61. I look for my family in this thread every morning. It's the only time I get to see them now. Thanks again to all who make this a great way to wake up in the morning!

 

I have heard that you have to modify the pulleys to prevent the belt from slipping off and special freeze plugs to stop the oil leaks.True?

 

Rootie, is that a luigi Lesovski midget? Parnelli had em covered that day.

 

Back Home In SoCal, Besides Running HRM And NHRA, Parks Took Any Opportunity To Project A Positive Public Image For Either Controversial Organization. L.A. Trade Tech Students Edward Mekata (left) And Ronald Borst Just Won The Plymouth Troubleshooting Contest Over Teams From 28 Area High Schools And Four Junior Colleges, Solving 15 Ignition And Fuel System “troubles” In Just 32 Minutes.



One Way To Ensure That All Race Cars Are Burning The Same, Legal Fuel Is To Drive From The Finish Line To The Pumps. The Fenders Of Pikes Peak Winner Jerry Unser’s Supercharged Ford Fly HRM’s Flag Because Robert E. Petersen Stepped Up After FoMoCo Stepped Away From Pete DePaola’s Multicar Operation—just Three Days Before The July 4th Event. Jerry’s 6:42.7 Minute Climb Of The Six Mile Qualifying Course Broke His Own Year Old Record, Set In A Chevy.




Jerry Unser’s HOT ROD Special Shared The Winner’s Circle With The Champ Car Of Repeat Champion Bob Finney, Who Finished First Here In ’55 And Second In ’56.



Wally Parks letting off a littler steam drinking water or maybe SHINE?



Grumpy on a mini bike. He probably won his class on it LOL.

 

same car

 

Powers & Evans



Rockers Drag Club




Scarlet Fever




Speed Engineering




Twisted