Help!...I need pics of FLAGMEN!!

First move.
All flagmen and tracks were a bit different.
Basic like this tho.
Points to you to see you nod ready.
Points to other driver.
Puts tip of flag on ground, yellow behind his back and listens to the cars setting up.
Go as flag tip comes up off the ground and the guy jumps.

A good one puts on a show for the crowd as the cars head on down the track then moves smoothly into directing the next 2 cars into position and ready to run soon as the track clears.

 

One of my favorites hanging in my room....sorry for the ****py quality of picture.

 

heres one i like, its acutally the back page of a b & M catalog only from about a few years ago, my fav.

***us

 

Jeffie...check your email soon.

 

I heard this guy works at some track in Michigan:

 

DAMMIT now I gotta go change my Man ******* that I justed pissed in!!!!

 

Hey Muttley I am speechless. LMFAO....TGIF....****

 

Very cool thread!! This guy must have been flagging off some fuel cars. Dig the Rat Fink hat!

 

question for old guys. Do u leave when he jumps up, or do u leave when the flag comes down?

 

The Keystone/Bison Raceway site (http://www.mts.net/~red67/reunion2.html) has a bunch of flagmen photos, including some of the members of Bachman-Turner Overdrive...

 

Man, they really take care of business, huh?

 

Here's one...

 

How bout Marylin Fox?

 

How about another Girl?

 

And one more from me

 

Oh you said Flag Men...Never mind..

 

Here's one

 

Oh, you said flagman, I didn't see the "L".

 

DANGER!!! Will rObinson, DANGER, DANGER
Now I can see why the guy on PINKS has no hair. It takes more BALLS to stand in front of one of these cars, than it does to drive 'em............

 

To answer when you took off, it was the exact moment that the green flag left the ground. Don Garlits used to try to leave a split before the flag went up and then shot me the finger if I called him back. Best reaction times went to Ivo and Garlits brother Ed.
Most of these shots of flaggers high in the air must have been taken early in the morning, because there is no way you could jump like that all day long. Oh, how I loved the smell of nitro in the morning.

 

I wanna see some flaggirls

 

When I was flagging I heard the racers used to watch my arm muscles tense up just before I lifted the flag, so I had to start wearing a long sleeved shirt.
Sort of like leaving just as the last yellow was going out.

 

I'm sorta partial to this one. That's Dave Hightower flaggin' at Mo-Kan, 1962. As I understand, Dave is a pin stripper of some note and lives around Kansas City.

We inducted Dave into our Mo-Kan Hall Of Fame this year.

This image was on the Mo-Kan shirt we sold at the Hamb drags last year.

 

Wow........that is a great pic!!! Thanks for the new wallpaper.

 

I looked for Cha Cha DiGregorio from Grease when she started the race, but amazingly, I couldn't find one.

 

Here's one....

 

Kev, that pic just gave me wood!