History Drag cars in motion.......picture thread.

Cool. Never knew Gene Altizer had a Corvair funny car. I grew up a couple of blocks from his house. Rosenthal Chevrolet was right down the street. Used to see lots of touring funny car rigs on Glebe Rd, that I guess were staying with him while in the DC area. Mostly I remember the Pak Rat Vega and his blue Chevy ramp truck.

 

That Ford of yours is just way toooo cool! Nice to see in a sea of Chevies! Love the 406s! Thanks for posting these pics. Bob

 

Well for my virgin post I guess I should put in a few of my olde time photees. Rooman came all the way to Australia last month to tell me aboot this place and I won't let him down.
Old Skool
How about the great Jim Walton at Castlereagh in his Monza (from my book at left)


Rod Sendall's Jeep



Graeme Cowin in braking area there




New School


All four off the poop deck


A Twichy T-Bird


A Sassy chassis


RIP the Landrover

Shepherd's explosion


Kiwis - scaring the living crap out of thouest as they scraped the wall on this pass.

 

The Altizer Corvair was at one time Malcom Durham's Strip Blazer. Dennis Doubleday

 

Gene Altizer also bought and raced Jim Liberman's Nova



-Lee
www.atomicpinup.com

 

Holy Crap ! I built that AMT wagon. Look how small those slicks look in that picture

 

Is that John Force's daughter who's on T.V.?

 

Kiwis - scaring the living crap out of thouest as they scraped the wall on this pass.
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That's Lyde Wages. My Dad still talks about this guy! He's from my families neck of the woods (Louisville KY area) and was a hard racing bad MOFO. Sponsored by TOOHEY'S AUTO SUPPLY. "If your car goes PHOOEY, call TOOHY'S."

I spent many a saturday in the Toohey's off Preston Hiway in Okalona as a kid, staring at all the speed parts and lookin' at pictures of racecars they sponsored on the wall. AWESOME. I tried to buy a gasser they used to back when I was a teenager. It was a blue '53 Ford post with a 'glass '55 Chev flip front on it. It was in a tiny junk yard, all beat up with no motor...probably around '81 or so. Man, thanks for posting that picture!

 

No. That isn't Ashley Force.

 

here's a few more I dug up...

 

Norm Cowdry's Healey, awesome! A 9 second car when there were very few.
And Steve Bovan's fuel burning blown 396 Nova. Almost as bitchin' as 554!!
Great pix!!!

 

hog mtn dave heres the Dixie Flyer

 

Great pics Dave, thanks! Where were they taken, in ga? Where were you back in the day?

 

Looks like Roanoke Dragway.

-Lee
www.atomicpinup.com

 

The first 3 are from Us 30 Gary, IN. The second batch were taken in Roanoke, VA. I think I was in the first grade when pictures those were taken...by someone else.

The Dixie Flyer pic (a Hog Mountain car) was in Bradenton I think about 2001. It ran 7.60, 180 with a street blower on an iron headed 468. It's a cackle car now, the BancAmericar.

 

Of the Flying Dutchman cars, this and the Charger form the following year rank amongst my favorite. The M/T Equipped log is more then mere endorsment, but was to serve notice that every available component offered by the company was used in the car; blower drives, headers, pistons, rods, valves, wheels, etc. This car made some really nice burnouts too.

 

That 3 Window looks mean as hell!
These pics are what this thread is all about...

 

I agree; it was my favorite "Dutchman" car. (But the '64 Plymouth is my second fav) It's one of the reasons I still love '66 Darts, and why I'm building a doorslammer funny car '66 Dart right now.

 

Go here...

http://nitrogeezers.smugmug.com/Photo%20Collections From The Past

If you haven't been to Nitrogeezer's photo archive, you'll be very very happy!

Does anybody have pictures of Lyde Wages' 'Vette? Or John Carter's green '33 Willys with the gold windows?

 

Some older wild bunch images










and some more recent door slammer (aka Pro Modified) stuff

 

What the hell...I'll throw a couple more on the pile.

 

Ok...Now with some pictures.

 

Yep some cool shots on back too! My favorite is the digger with chut in full blossom or the purple Toplinne of my favorite albums my dad gave me when I was 8 now its wall decor!

 

Leland Kolb 68 Beebe & Mulligan, Vs's The Vandal, Ross Mellish

 

Would Gene be open to answering questions about the UDRA circuit he once competed on? He really did get a lot of ink back in the day. Get him to join so we can barrage him with questions.