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

This pic shows one of 2 cars (he ran a T/Fas well) run by Tony Froome,both cars were considered a huge joke as the best pass by either was around the 90 mph (ET was measured in eons).

 

Been off on vacation so only just found this tread,looking at things from a different 'angle' if 'jellymold' funny car bodies were outlawed and replaced by bodies made to suit the old (replica) rules the drag would increase and 1000 ft racing could be dumped as the cars would be a mite slower.

 

One of the baddest Fiat altereds ever.

 

As long as we're on bad ass Fiats, how 'bout "Dirty Eddie" Potter's AA/Comp "Sudden Death"!! There's almost as much tire smoke in the coupe as out. This thing just has nasty written all over it.

 

Never could find this Drag car in motion....has to be the coolest ever.

 

Was never much into Corvairs, but Doug's funny was cool. That it trailered the Mercury factory Comets at the 67 nationals is way cool.

 

When street roadsters were street roadsters! No, that's not me. This was a couple years before my time. Kurtis would never have don that square roll bar!

 

Potter later just walked away from the sport and pursued golfing where he became and accomplished pro. Butch Leal did the same thing

 

Subsonic was the name of this first built swedish FED in 67-68 sometime. Funny thing was they built it out of pictures in magazines not knowing there was another one built just a few blocks away..

 

There are times I wish I could walk away.....

Hello my name is Wesley, and I am a drag racer........

 

I've seen that coupe before. Didn't it belong to Eldon Dye, later of Dye & Hampton fame?? Must have run 1/8 mile. Sure isn't much of a gas tank.

 

Not "in motion" but a cool photo of Tony Nancy with his new-for-1964 "wedge" dragster.

 

Jack Williams, Top Eliminator at the '64 HRM Drags. Looks like they de-chromed their Mopar push-wagon or it's a low-buck model.

 

From the 9/64 HRM "Fresh Foal" article on Johnny Loper's switch from his "Ole Hoss" Willys to his "Lil Hoss" Anglia.




Talk about a sanitary car! Both of them!




Cool tow rig! That's at least a hundred grand sitting there in today's dollars yet fairly commonplace in those days.

 

My favorite corvette of all time!

 

From the 8/62 HRM.

 

This one's pretty tasty too:

 

Basically Stock, in line, 250, 6 cylinder, home made Turbo Charger set-up.
Best ET 11.38, 117 mph
Check out license plate
Later, Matt

 

This was the 1st version that crashed in 64. He built a second one in 65. It survived but was replaced by a generiac FED later. The 2nd version continued to be campained as late as 1970 by a named Gary Le Duc who raced it with an injected gas motor and raced A/dragster in local Div 7 comp eliminator events. It was still being sponsored by Nancy's long time sponser, Century Oldsmobile.

 

Castlereagh 1966.

 

Indy 1970

 

I love this photo.

 

Fall 64 & Spring 65 @ 1/8 mile Islip Speedway Dragstrip Photos should enlarge when clicked on. Enjoy.

http://www.melaniff.com/speedway/DragStrip/dragtrip 64-65.htm