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

thats a terrible way to keep an old car.
chaz

 

Bob Chipper

 

Cool Green Chevy 2

 

looks like Fred and Lamont were there that day also....

 

Mercy.

 

Looks like the Malco car was using a stock Pontiac GTO "His & Hers" shifter

 

I had an AMT model of that car about 35 years ago!

 

Seems to me that Hurst sold it as an aftermarket shifter for a while. Didn't the OEM one have a locking feature on it to keep valets out of the manual side? The one in that car doesn't. I remember the lock, not much else.

 

a few more. another muncie shot



The rat trap staging lanes at U.S. 30

 

These are from a photo shoot at Indianapolis Raceway Park 1968 or 69. these are from post card size pics, the original 8x10's are in a safe.

 

This is my how much safety has changed over the years. This blower is from an altered that a friend of my dads ran. They were warming it up in the pits and it was popping through the injector, and all the guys working on the car advised him not to run it. Well he did anyway, I was about 7 at the time, and remember this very well. This is back when you could have your chase truck in the return lane right next to the cars making the pass.

We were only about 20 to 30 feet away from the altered, side by side, the truck bed loaded with 5 kids ages ranging 6 to 11 he staged the car, it went green, and as soon as he nailed it this happened. The blower went 35 feet into the air and landed about 3 feet from the bed of the truck where we all were seated. We all went Ya Cool and clapped with joy not knowing we had just escaped death. So thats what those belts are good for now.

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some more

 

This is what is so cool about a thread like this...I've collecting Flying Dutchman stuff for 20+ years and this is a shot I've never seen before! Way cool 'zooma...

 

Knowing Doug, I'm sure he shot the picture himself.