PICS! Fremont 1971 Oct 1-3

Here are more pics from my uncle's collection. Sick! Lots more to come

 

Great pictures. I have many fond memories of Fremont Raceway.

 

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Great pics! Thanks for posting.

 

Still got my original Fremont Drag Strip jacket - a few moth bites, just for "patina". Thanks for sharing - let's see some more.

 

ya, got anymore
GREAT Shots

 

Great pictures. Thanks for posting . Wonder what happened to cars like this . Restored ?

 

Thats KEN LAUGHTON GRANADA HILLS CALIF . It was stock body all steel it was powered by 427 jackson inj chevy B-M clutch turbo..... 9.90 138 mph. He made the small and big block chevy front drive dist front covers. A few years later he ran a A STREET ROADSTER AND A-GAS VEGA IN DIV 7.

 

I have alot of memories from that track also.I still have a program some where from the Baylands side also.Goodies Speed Shop is still operating down in San Jose.I bought alot of stuff from the last year.

 

You have all the cool stuff!!

 

Yo. some more eye candy




VVV The red-orange '23 T-roadster with the 6 cyl engine was Joe Williamson's "Trouble Maker". A screaming machine.

 

Aaaaand again!

 

WWHHHOOOAAA! That's the only shot I've ever seen of the super short Pinto funnycar I owned! Any more of it? Man, I'll buy you dinner! You made my day!

 

Dude I'm glad I could make your evening. That's why doing this is so fun. I have A TON more slides to go through but the process is really slow. I'll let you know if I come across anything. BTW ... looks like it was a heck of a ride. What were the specs / times / etc?

 

It ran a stroker SBF with a one-off stack injection,C-4 that was a test bed for Art Carr. Cl***ed as an altered. I would've kept it but it was a screaming ***** to get in and out of! Talked to the guy that built it, REAL nice guy. He ran it all over Ca. I tried to post a pic of it when it was here but can't seem to do it,worked fine last week, GGRRRR!

 

Nah - you're confusin' me with you.

 

I see Malicoat Brothers' twin turbo Hemi funny car. I think it ran on alky. I believe they said it checked out at 1,100 hp on the dyno. Also, Jim Nicoll top fuel(der Weinerschnitzel?)

 

The picture after the Pinto funny car shows Joe Williamson (Trouble Maker) going off against, I believe, Don Hicks in the Hicks and Conway roadster which had a supercharged big block Chevy. I once stood right along side of Hicks at Sacramento to get a close-up when he was warming the tires. My hearing was never the same.

 

^^^ Nice screen name whoever you are... now on with the show

 

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it's all built up around there now, but there is nothing where the actual track was. just dirt.

 

sad!

 

Thanks- Hudson g***er- cool uncle !

 

NEVER.......once you go race, you can't go back!

 

That bronze 55 chevy was . The immortal it was powered by a inj late model hemi it was running ahra b-g ets were 10-00 this car was from long beach ca. The club qualiflyers ii showed up with a bunch race cars. The blue 6-cyl alt tjuana taxi was arnold chaves dos-pomas machine shop san jose ca. It was a nhra comp elim winner record holder. The yellow street roadster. If you ran fremont you would know wayne and tony del rio.

 

reminds me of a wolfman jack adverti*****t spot I found a while back.
(in the wolfman tone)

ya gotta get out there to fremont raceway! top double A dragsters, nitro fuelers, oh yer gonna see a whole lotta l***ies with cl***y ch***ies (starts making dragster noises) oh I just spit all over myself hehehehe

 

Cool car, but I wonder if they ever ran into tire clearance issues, looks to me like the quarter panel and rear slick are sharing space.

 

the rear tires were 11.50-15 goodyear with coilover shocks ladder bars. He was also a orange county bracket 1 racer and was down into the 9.50 range.

 

See if your uncle has a pictures of Porky the Pirate, the crazy welder that was at Baylands a lot.

 

Kick*** pics.....that T-bird is neat.
Thanks for sharing!