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

those winged express & pure heaven match race photos are KILLER! CECIL COUNTY!!







TH

 

Fuel Altereds Forever!!!

 

I had a friend who knew someone and we wound up on the grass next to the asphalt at Indy. Mid 70's not my favorite fuel era, but here's a few.

 

that yellow fueler is my grandparents' Jim and Alison's rail with my dad Bobby Hilton at the wheel...'79 or '80...killer photo!






TH

 

Just got my issue of Hot Rod in the mail today!!!! 25 historic 1/4 mile stormers....The Snake, Swindler, Pure Hell, Winged Express....and many more!!! Check it out!!!

 

Then you would enjoy these too.

 

BITCHIN!! thanks! gotta get as many photos of the family as i can!




TH

 

love the old pics from dragway 42 back on page 416. anyone got old pics from norwalk and marion county?

 

I like to tell you a little story about Ron Brizo on how I met him. When I move to CA. in the late 60's the first thing I did was look in the phone book for Ron's name & found it. It was around 1 PM & I called him. I told him that I just move out there from Md. & how much I liked that truck and sure would like to meet him.

He told me he was getting ready to go to OCIR & why don't I come to the track & help out. I jumped at that idea. Ron was a very cool guy & he told me any answer I ask about the truck.

Boy could he drink which was his downfall. I understand his liver gave out and it killed him.

When I left CA. I thought I never thought I would ever see that truck again. As years went by some great friends of mine, Jeff & Jerry from N.Y. bought the truck and as of this day are out racing the truck.

RIP Ron.

Plum

 

I don't know what happen to the photos from the last thread but here they are, I hope.

Plum

 

I don't know what it is about Carbone, but he always looked like a chimpanzee to me. Must have been those sideburns that made me think of it. I don't know. He certainly didn't drive like chimp, that's for sure.

 

his nickname was THE MANDRILL after all early on...







TH

 

Ron dominated all of 1968 and much of 1969 season with that truck. Not an easy task when you consider that many of the series circuit cars were illegal by NHRA rules. Ron's truck was a class legal AA/GS car. Ron purportedly had a sponsor lined up in oder to allow him to field a AA/FC. The deal fell through and Bizio sort of vanished from the scene. The truck lasted one more season locally under the guize of a name I beleive to be Soul Bender. It was hued in root beer brown metalflake and had a blown BBC instead of the Chrysler. I think Bizio had launched the last of his Hemi motors before selling the truck sans engine. The thought of someone answering thier phone and taking a call from a fan and then inviting the fan to join him for the races is from an era long since passed...sad!

 

Ross I thought the same thing too when I first saw them. They haven't been touched by me. It must have been a very high quality camera.

 

Check out these links.
http://www.nhra.com/blog/dragster-insider/2009/07/31/the-final-fred-files-...-and-a-great-surprise/

http://s902.photobucket.com/albums/ac226/Fredfiles/

Fred von Sholly. Killer photographer.

 

Godamn! Them chops do bare resemblance... and he always had em! he could shoe a fueler...and didnt want nothin to do with rear engine cars...a true Die Hard.





TH

 

Does anybody know what month the the 1966 Super Stock Nationals were held?

 

July at New York National

Plum

 

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this weekend at Thunder Valley Dragways, Marion, SD

 

1966, Fontana



Famoso, CHRR, 1993

 

not from the "Golden Age" of drag racing, but still worth a look

 

Wheels up on a old Impala barg at Byron Dragway, Ill.

 

Using an existing pit shot photo, I monkeyed it into an action shot.

 

man..some great photos on Fred's site,thx!

liked this shot..

 

All by Fred von Sholly.
From http://s902.photobucket.com/albums/ac226/Fredfiles/

 

The first one in 1965 at York was August 7th. I believe the early years of the event were held around the same time. 1967 was at Cecil County, MD, the rest after that of the early years at least up to '72 were back at York. Pete Gates in the ex-Dyno Don '65 Comet won the '66 event which this poster is for.
Joel

 

Good points all...I never knew Bizio, but remember when the truck first showed up at Lion's in primer, nastiest gasser I ever saw! Glad it has been restored, anyone know where it is, or who owns it now?