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

Have to agree the photos that were added to this thread this week are solid gold!

Thanks to all who took the time to post everything. Keep'em Coming Guys!

The world is watching and waiting!

Gary

 

The candy red Anglia of Panella Trucking was driven by Ken Dondero. What made the Anglia unqiue was that its blown SBC was hooked up to a manual 4 speed; and Dondero never missed a shift.

 

More Glenn! I'm reading your posts over and over. Awesome!

 

OK, I couldn't "steal" the images from this site but here's a link. Those were taken today during a combined Press day and a nostalgic Back to Basic dragrace. Enjoy!


http://www.eurodragster.com/live/2008veidecfestival/pictures/pressday/default.htm

 

I have no idea what these are all about, but here they are....

 

Wow imagine if you had a sand box big enough for that when you were a kid!?

 

Just added more pics.http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa58/stude-sled/drags/

 

Gotta be careful ridin this nekid!!!! 'specially if ya got a big johnson!!!!

 

Wow....wonderful photos.

 

Another great week on the best thread on the net..!

Thanks ALL..

 

STUDE, don't know where you got these pics from, but you have made my day!! Thanks.-MIKE

 

Stude,that was a fun tour of cars at Ozark. Isn't Ozark still open these days?

 

Tim that is the old Ozark, that was in OZARK. The new Ozark is in Rogersville.

You can still drive the old Ozark, they put houses on either side. It closed as a drag strip about 1974.

I dd a "ghost track" story on the old Ozark many years ago. The guy that opened the track, '63 I think it was, had no knowledge of drag racing. He had leased the land to a couple of guys to build the track, and they quit before it was done. His only option was to pay off the contractors, finnish, and then open the track

 

Hey Carl, so what is the name of the track where the locals burned the tower down and all that business? Wasn't it in Springfiel?

 

The guy in the far lane was probably thinking "Oh SHIIIIT."

 

I always thought the radically lightened Anglia axle was a little extreme, but I guess it held up OK.

 

Hey Maz,the only thing about lightening axles that bothered me was how much weight got hung on the front end to balance the car,so lightening seemed redundant but very stylish.LOL

 

That would be the current Ozark Int'l Raceway. It's located closer to Rogersville, which is east of Springfield.

 

Smoken' wheelies are my favorite "Drag cars in motion" pictures and there's a ton of cool ones in this awesome thread !

 

Yup. They burned it three or four times, and since it was pole constrution. the used a chain saw to cut it down once.

The old guy across the street was the one doing it. His son was a Christian county deputy, so they never charged him until.... The insurance company asked the FBI to get envolved and then he was arested. He died of a heart attack before he went to trial.

It was said that he also would set on his porch and fire a shotgun over the cars that missed the gate and turned around in his driveway.

He would also destroy anything that was left on the property after a race, and sprinkle roofing nails on the track and in the pits.

Do you get the idea he didn't want the track to be there?

This is a pic of the current tower, been there for about 15 years.

 

One of the cleaner looking ones out there.
DRM mag.

 

Is that an optical illusion or is that tower listing to right???

 

Yea,let's hope it's an optical illusion

 

another oddball..I'll skip the rail, but take that roadster

 

That RED crashed at that vey Indy event. Driver escaped harm. I like the rail myself, but the blown Highboy is cool

 

Now that looks like a handfull

 

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Hill Bros vs SWC Mustang Green Valley Tx