Cool to se mild customs running E/G, 55 Chevy with Buick headlights and an Olds center bar in the grille, with possible Packard tail lights !
for the time the most technically advanced drag car on the planet ,, first to 150. killed everybody around '55 the bustle bomb fabricator john miss you dad
GOOD PIX!!!---------I used to run at Santa Ana in 1952. Lots of inovation & ideas! This was the time WAY before when the "Little Guy" had fun prior to big bucks moving in & putting the novice in the grandstands as "Observers" I guess that's "PROGRESS".
Not really..... You could just move down the ladder class wise, until your car and budget fit happily together. Sadly around this time frame the phrase..... Speed costs money- lots of money . How fast you want to go? OK I added the lots part but still holds true.
40 ragtop those pictures are at Dover Dragstrip. Little Giant obviously, the dragster not so much, looks like it says A/D or AA/D. I always look to see if I'm in any of these pictures, I took a lot but have never been in any. Pat
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