History SUPER STOCK A/FX & Match race photos

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Bill Thomas built the fast back cars. The tops were made out of fiberglass by a boat manufacturer. There were a small number of them put together mostly for racing applications..

https://billthomascheetah.com/z11-chevy-2/
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/bill-thomas-ckc-nova-a-fx.226404/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/selved...-bill-thomas-badass-build-for-ckc-racing/amp/
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-alan-green-fastback-nova-dragster.html?m=1

 

I’m kind of a Nova guy just incase it wasn’t obvious.. lol

I love that black and white shot of the Alan Green fastback above with stock wheel base and wheel arches..

 

The Farmer Arnie Beswick's first drag car

 

Oh ya, I like early Barracuda’s too..

 

And less known is the fact that they started out as road race cars.
http://www.superchevy.com/features/sucs-0700-chevy-ii-nova-funny-car

 

Dyno Don Carlsbad Raceway

 

Eventually, Little Joe Was Painted Blue And Carried Hale’s Own Jim’s Speed Shop On Its Doors. NHRA Rule Changes In Weight Breaks Allowed Him To Race The ’64 In SS/CA. He Set The NHRA National Mph Record At 131.27 Mph At Amarillo.

 

Jim Hale's Fleet Included This Original 1965 A990 Coronet, Usually Driven By One Of His Employees. Talk About Perks!

 

D & D Performance Center

 

Sander's Plymouth vs Desert Motors

 

Love that Comet.. Bitchen stance..!

 

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New Yorker

 

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Sopwith Camel

 

Jack Chrisman's Sachs and Sons car that arguably was the very first funny car.

Roo

 

1964 Winternationals LW Fords Note the "slots" in the grilles

 

The Grump

 

Iowa’s Darwin Busch, Who Was Taking Home The Gold At Cordova Dragway In His ’62 Bel Air.

 

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Storm King II

 

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Black Arrow

 

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Black Arrow vs Branded

 

With all the cars that ran in these S/S and AFX classes where did a lot of these cars disappear too. If they won a lot or were backed by a dealer and made it big the cars seem to have been put away and show up now and then, what I always wonder about is where did they end up going, even in all other classes of drag racing. I understand that all cars couldn't be saved but if you look back at just how any cars were built too try and make it into the big times. Just a thought about all who helped build on the history of drag racing.

 

A lot of the afx cars were falling apart and had been hacked up so bad they were too bad to fix once they were done with them they went to the junkyards after they were stripped of all the good stuff and truthfully there were not a lot of them to begin with the afx era was basically less than 2 years long before the afx went away in favor of flopper body cars

 

Building of the Hemi Under Glass

 

The Farmer Arnie Beswick campaigned a tiger-striped 1964 Pontiac Tempest called The Tameless Tiger

 

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Black Arrow vs Little Giant

 

That's actually a '63 not a '64.