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

Rich;
The "not so famous" is even better than the famous..
Great stuff..
Thanks once again;

Rick

 

Great photos, Rich...real treasures
Tommy Ivo giving a few tips to FNG Don Prudhomme.....classic

 

Rich - those pics are priceless! Thanks for posting.

 

Rich,
Where have you been hiding that stuff......Great Photos!!!!

 

God, I hope not!

(I've been going back and reading some of my '72-'74 Street Rodder magazines and your name keeps popping up!)

 

140 Warty

 

Looks like this guy may need a little paint work after this run

 

I bet he won't care

 

Looks like the '55 has a DeSoto grille.

 

The real piece of history in the Showboat photo is Ron Pellegrini with his foot on the slick. He bought the car from Ivo and toured it through out the eastern half of the country. Ron was also one of the earliest producers of fiberglass Funny Car bodies.

 

Is he the guy who put the Riviera 'wagon' body on the SB?

 

Time to throw up afew more Canadian drag race pic's from the early days.....great thread.

 

More great's.

 

TONS of thanks Rich. Slim

 

Not in motion, but a very cool altered.

 

Wow that is cool...the Juggers always had great Drag Cars.

 

I don't think so. Ron sold the car in 1963 to Billy Herndon in Tampa. I'll do some more homework to see who added the bodywork.

OK here ya go. Note the difference in the story of who bought the car. The sale to Pellegrini is well documented. This info was in an article written by Tony Thacker

In 1963, the NHRA lifted its ban on nitromethane and Tommy had a hankering to go Top Fuel racing so Showboat was sold to fellow Road Kings car club member Tom McCourry who also crewed for Ivo. McCourry toured the car for a couple more years as it was but interest began to wane as the racing fan became more enamored with a new, emerging breed of race cars called Funny Cars.

By 1965, McCourry had decided that Showboat could have a second life if he replaced the dragster body with something both recognizable and outrageous. He decided on a Buick station wagon and commissioned ace metal shaper Tom Hanna (left) to build a new body in his Los Angeles shop.

Completely formed of hand-shaped aluminum over a wooden buck, the new Buick Riviera body takes shape in Hanna’s shop. This was the first Funny Car-type body to have an escape hatch in the roof—it even had a roof rack. The nose section was also hand-formed from aluminum.

The first iteration of the new Wagon Master was debuted in 1966 and considering everything was hand made, the new car had pleasing lines.

 

Looks like Fremont!

 

This one looks in motion sitting there.

 

Check out the Pan Am tote bag!

 

Long time ago. Jerry's sons look older than that now!! Bet ya' didn't know that first Holmes & Kugel Bonneville roadster was Marlan Sefton's 5 window before Jerry bought it.

 

This very car was depicted in the Jackson Bros. fuel altered DVD. It was filmed at either Fremont or Half Moon Bay billowing its tire smoke for about 200' off the line.

 

Oops...

 

Anybody have info on this one?

 

the odd couple?

 

Not sure where this was taken but its my friends uncle. Last name Behlings(sp) Note the guy laying on the track...