More Fremont 1971 Linda Vaughn, Pure Hell Etc!!!

Here are more shots from my uncle's visit to Fremont in October of 1971. These are HOT!!!!

 

A few more...

 

If it says Linda Vaughan I always open the thread...cool pix...no such thing as a bad day spent at the track...especially if Linda Vaughan is there...

 

hell ya !!!!!! cool pics......jeffrey

 

Dang - now that's real drag racing!

 

That's my favourite shot of lovely Linda- Ever.
Thanks ModelAcitizen- I dig this thread. What a peephole into a point in flopper history.
Hands up who'd knock back the 4-4-2 ?

 

Absolutely fantastic pictures, with or without LV, simply love those car looking funnycars comparing to todays cheeseslicers. Thank's for sharing

 

Great pictures...thanks man...

 

The picture right after Linda shows Herm Peterson getting trounced by Kansas John Weibe. Story goes that Kansas John had the new Donovan motor (aluminum 417) in an old-style ch***is and Herm had the new-style ch***is with the old 392. On Monday morning Herm was on the phone to Ed Donovan ordering some of those new 417 motors.

 

The rear of Rich Guasco's Pure Hell funny car shows some repairs. The day before, he backed up too much and crunched it into the wall.

 

The late Steve Carbone was looking good with his smokey burnout, but I believe Large Father put him on the trailer.

 

Second-to-last pic shows another one of them new back-motored cars, Dennis Baca, the Carpetbagger.

 

Stories like this is to kill for. Thank's for sharing and keep'em coming.

 

Ah, back in the days when funny cars actually looked like car, not some nasa abortion.
I miss those days.
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great pics, thanks

 

AH.. LINDA VAUGHAN my first wife looked just like her..except she was a green four door

 

I'm digging that Miller ambulance.

 

I watched the purple car burn to the ground on a sunday they were testing the new car at fremont caught fire in lights there was no fire crew that day we were down the end after the run i remember rich saying as it burned in front of us WHAT IS MY WIFE GOING TO SAY NOW.

 

hahahahaaaaa!!!!

 

any more photos ???? Thanks mike.

 

Geez... Cars that look like cars, and a girl that looks like a girl. Ya just dont see that kind of thing nowdays.

 

Lots more!!!! BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (like Emeril)

 

I'm trying to imagine that Garlits car with todays horsepower!!!

 

You have a sick imagination

 

Awesome pics! Yeah I like that "when cars looked like cars and girls looked like girls"!!!

 

I'm so pumped that I have these slides! There are so many more LOL!

 

ck out the guy in the front motor dragster watching the tree as ken leaves on him in that old t-bird.

 

I like the starter man's hearing protection.

 

Once again!







VV What happened here??!! VV

 

VV What happened here??!! VV That was Sush Matsubara in the Pisano and Matsubara Vega funny car (733 0n the side of the car) trying the shoulder. In an earlier picture he is shown going off against Tom Hoover. Hoover was driving the White Bear Dodge funny car and seriously smoking the tires.