Don't have the image, but I still have the stories . . . Colton was always the innovator . . . For a while, anyone that set a class record was a "national record holder", too. (They were the only strip to run 3/16 of a mile as they shortened the race length because of safety concerns of their short strip.) And now for more innovation . . . they switched to night drags and had one "Kleig (sp?) spotlight pointing down the strip off to the left of the starting line. If the guy in the left lane was losing by quite a margin, he'd block the light for the guy in the right lane. Cleaver, huh?
baddest of em all "the surfers" , drivers son (adam sorokin) shoes the champion speed shop front motor fuel car now ,fastest sb on the planet. fabricator john miss you dad
Bob Rounthwaite and Tom McLaughlin ran this GMC powered dragster..Don Montgomery photo Joaquin Arnette tried a Studebaker powered dragster Art Arfons, looks like the '56 NHRA Nationals. This car was once in the NASCAR museum at Talladega, maybe still there? Motor in Jim Miles fuel coupe...Doug Peterson photo Saugus Bob Alsenz leaves the Santa Ana starting line...former Bean Bandits car, running out of Lakewood Auto Parts, with Clarke Cagle's Ardun. Manuel Coehlo's twin flathead dragster with 4-wheel drive is at top right, with Fritz Voigt's dragster in the middle, with a gas Chrysler. C.J. Hart with the flag. Norm Catton's roadster, at the second meeting of the first NHRA Nationals, this one at Phoenix after the Great Bend meet got rained out. NHRA Photo. Carl Stone at Caddo Mills. Possibly a Connell Miller photo? Shinoda and Powers, first NHRA Nationals. Larry Shinoda teamed up with Dave Powers, whose Ardun powered the car to a class win. "A/H" meant A Hot Roadster. Karl Knecht photo
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