Hello, If a trailer is not available at the time and there is a way, hot rod and drag race folks will figure it out. Sometimes it takes a ramp or two to get the heavier FED race cars up into a pickup truck bed. Other times, like a lightweight SBC powered FED can be a family project and picked up by a couple of brothers in So Cal. Tapia Bros Collection Back in So Cal during the late 50’s and early 60s, drag racing was still developing with new ideas always coming to the fore front. The Tapia Brothers were well known in the early drag racing scene at Lions Dragstrip. They built a low slung modified Chassis Research frame, use an injected Chevy and ran circles around most of the gas dragsters in the classes during the early times. Involved as they were, family and friends gathered at their house and did more prep work every week. Tapia Bros Collection It was a gathering of friends and family to do what was necessary to keep the winning streak alive. Their exploits, when we were able to film the sleek dragster, were epic in our book. It did not take a top gas class A/Gas dragster with a Hemi to win and continue winning in all types of eliminations. Jnaki Tapia Bros Collection https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...picture-thread.228509/page-2016#post-14118085 Tapia Brothers SBC FED teenage kid in a ... film by James N. Sometimes, the full name of the entry at Lion’s Dragstrip results can be found as the “Beardon, Hoffman, Tapia Brothers.”
History from Lion’s Dragstrip: In going through my old films, back then we knew the history of the early beginnings of Lion’s Dragstrip from our viewing and reading articles about how it came to be. Since then, some of the films were puzzling as the old memory cells just did not click into place. In looking at these photos, the tower side bleachers are missing or the short temporary ones are being used. So, it was in 1958 or earlier. In 1958-59, Lions Dragstrip started adding some small, but taller bleachers, then larger ones, and in an odd move, rented the larger ones out during the Pasadena New Year's Day parade for the Pasadena's annual Rose Parade festivities. Whether it was in those years, they may have been missing because of the "Loaner" program or shot in the early years. Here are some sample of my movies taken from next to the white ambulance parking spot, until the end of the movie clip. Lefty Mudersbach from tower side photo spot Ed Garlits at Lion’s Dragstrip tower side It was one of the best, close up, starting line shots, since the pro photographers were all lined up in front of the other side where the spectators sat. (a little noisy and definitely close to the action with a fixed lens) Hello, Some one mentioned that some of the Lion’s Dragstrip films show only drag racing race cars only with no bleachers on the tower side. Then all of a sudden, there were full bleachers for quite sometime in the films. Other films showed full bleachers on both sides during the same year. So, what gives? If anyone has ever been to the annual Pasadena Rose Parade on New Year’s Day, then that was the final destination of the missing bleachers. Now a days, the rose parade committee has tons of money and has access to bleachers from all over So Cal. The old drag strips are now gone so, those bleachers are somewhere being used. But, in the old days, the Rose Parade streets were filled with old bleachers as needed from wherever they could rent them. They all come apart with nuts and bolts and could easily be transported anywhere. Lions was owned by the city and sponsored by the So Cal area Lions Club Organization, so the donation connection of service clubs/organizations was built in place. bleachers/no bleachers Jnaki So, while we did race a lot and were in the pits more than elsewhere, there were times when we both took a break for lunch or dinner to sit in the tower stands. We also had our favorite place across the dragstrip in the spectator’s side bleachers, too. It gave us a direct shot at the orange tower and the starting line. 1959 one weekend no tower side bleachers... no tower side bleachers 1959 single set of bleachers tower side The next weekend full bleachers tower side
Pappy Hartman, Pontiac powered A/R from Washington State. Jerry Harris built chassis in the Seattle area.
Quote="296ardun, post: 14395209, member: 74877"]the herman brothers, at left, racing the cirino and groves "durfee motors" roadster. Doug peterson was a san gabriel regular, as was i, and we both remember these two blown olds roadsters on gas. The herman brothers ran a standard hilborn blower injector, while the cerino car used regular olds port injectors with an adapter to fit on top of the blower. Both got new paint after this photo was taken, with the herman brothers getting a metallic blue paint while the durfee car went green: View attachment 5325988 View attachment 5325989 [/quote] Hello, In early So Cal drag racing circles, the Cirino-Groves-Durfee Automotive Roadster was a force in the Modified Roadster or Hot Roadster category. The Herman Brothers blue roadster was a regular at Lion's Dragstrip near our house, during the times we were racing, back then. We saw them almost every time we were racing or just watching the different racers. Herman Brothers Lion's Dragstrip Nick Cirino from San Andreas, California, while Frank Groves was the driver of the Durfee Automotive Modified Roadster. 1960 Bakersfield Smokers March Meet Cirino-Groves-Durfee Roadster My brother and I saw them at the 1960 Bakersfield March Meet in the pits. It was now painted the mellow green color for this drag race meet. The one thing that stood out were the injector tubes. They certainly would suck in the necessary air. Jnaki As quoted from the 1960 Bakersfield March Meet write up in the Drag News weekly: “Another 1320 record was set by the Durfee-Groves and Cirino “A” Roadster with an E.T. of 10.24 seconds…”
Nick Cirino was a friend of mine. He ran the port injectors on the blower because the team didn't have money for a 2 holer so they just adapted what they had to the blower. Clearly it worked pretty well.
Bob Taylor's Red Hoss - the ex-Scorpion I car he bought now with a blower - he ran it first with 8 carbs always on gas - won a lot of races with it.
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