This has been just a great thread..I miss racing when it was real racing...My dad raced in the blue Mustang in E and D/MP, and then built an E/G 60 Falcon..That was the most fun we ever had racing. Caudle would show up and everybody else was racing for 2nd..He was tough..Lots of tough cars around here-Boyd Benights 6 cyl Mustang, Farmer George's 55 Wagon G/MP, McKenzies Chevy II,The Hairbender MG from Amarillo,The Gorilla 62 Corvette(which we promptly out-ran) ... Of course there was a little cheatin going on by most, but we still made lots of good friends and had fun. And you had to actually drive those cars... I remember when NHRA dropped Modified Eliminator, and all the Modifieds and Gassers made a drive down the return road at Indy right before 1st round .. one woman had a sign that read" Modified Gets the Shaft" ...yeah they did...
That "Green Seen" '55 was runnin' 100% Nitro in it's later years ,,went from a Mod.ProDuction ,to a A/Gasser to a A/ Altered to a Fuel Comp Coupe ,,was a Killer on the track before the Funny cars took over ,,it was a real kool '55 ,, Love to find it in a barn sumwhere ,,
For you Ford Guys ,,Des Moines Drag Strip ,,1958 or 9 ,,Dave Shafers straight axle '54 Ford,,,A/Gasser with a "Huge" W Block multi carbed 352 stroked to 400 sumthin; ( he never would tell just how big it was ,,,but ,,that was Dave ) ,Ford motor ,,ran in the low 10's then ,,once in awhile dipped into the 9's ,,his pre Pro Stock Ford days ,,,he's still racin' in the Ozark Super Shifters ,,but his son Troy is drivin' now ,,
My '54 Ford P/UP ,in 1969 Polar Dragway ,Anchorage Alaska ,,,,i couldn't run Mod Production since i put a 396 Big Block Chevy in it ,,Mod Production rules were you had to run a motor that was the same mfgr as the car/truck ,,so ,i ran it in C/GAS ,,ran a best of 10;80 July 4th at the Alaska state championships ,,won Street Eliminator that day ,,,
Post #489 '63 Chev was originally a Z-11, at that time still the original owner. Had a 301" in it for M/P. Bachelder and Chipman on door. Had rear suspension done by Woodland and Andreason od Brainbeau olds fame. Ran New England and Oxford weekly.
What kind of traction devices would a 1970 vintage leaf spring M/P Nova or Camaro have used? That was right about the time slapper bars were coming into favor - would '70 have been too early for slappers on a typical M/P car? Would they have been more likely to have used Traction Masters or Tbolt-style lift bars?
Bushmaster; Mr Gasket Slapper bars came out in the middle '60's to help the Chevy's & Fords get tracktion against those trick leaf springs the MOPARS came with in '65 ,,then ,by '67 or '68 ,,there was several mfgrs makin' em ,and everyone had em ,,even on the street ,,,
Thanks, man......I didn't remember them before the late '60s but I wasn't really getting tuned into the drag race tech stuff before 1970 or so. I remember several guys making them in my HS metal shop in '70 or '71.
Seems like they were all Yellow ,,even the guys that made thier own in shop class painted em yellow ,,they were kinda a Status Symble ,,,but then the Chrome ones came out for the big buck guys ,,i helped put a set of Mr gasket's on my buddys SB '69 Camaro with mono leaf rear springs ,,really made it come to life ,,
Yeah, the yellow ones were Lakewoods - by far the most popular brand at the time. We "bucks down" guys were forced to resort to fabrication - I'll bet a mess of car parts got made in metal shop back then.
I believe you are correct. Did he spell it Coonce or Koonce? Remember my family's car running the Clark and Coonce car often, and they were always great races.
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THat is when Drag racing was fun not like it is today.Big bucks only need to come.And you had to shift with a clutch.
Yep, you're absolutely right. Although I was a mere lad in the 1960's, that was my observation via reading the car magazines of the day (back in the day) as a car-crazed youth who just couldn't wait until he got his drivers license! Pete
This car was owned by Dick Miller here in West Carrolton Oh.He is still around and still working on cars but his interest is street rods these days.Jack Goode in West Carrollton Oh did the engine work.I last heard Jack was living in Florida.
we had what was called super-eliminator at strip outside of chattanooga tenn. i tried my best to beat perry with our max-wedge ply. he kicked my butt every time. dang that was a long time ago.
In post 510 above Pete posted a pic of a 56/57 yellow Vette. I was a big fan of Kanners when he ran Prontito out of Midwest in the late 60s. I never saw the car after 69 and always wondered what happened to the car. It appears this yellow car with the same Prontito lettering may have been a later version? It looks as if the truck axle is gone and they changed the rollbar and added the top (maybe engine and drivetrain as well). When Kanners was running the 427 with a clutchflite it was a bunch of fun to watch in B/G, as well as pretty hard to beat. Does anyone know more of the history of this version or car in the staging lanes?-Jim
Reminds me of another Connecticut Dragway modified, Wes Perkins "Lil Stinker". Hard runner in either E or F/MP.
Did you know his MOTHER used to race with him. She had if I remember correctly a 49-50 ford flatty and used to race at Connecticut Dragway, Dover,and Lebanon Valley I know because she was my former 5-6 grade school teacher. It was like WHOA that is my old teacher driving that thing the first time I saw her at Dover. She taught school for a very long time in Terryville and raced weekends
quit running after they started dial your on.Ran on wed nite fri nite sat nite and sunday in Ga back in the late 60's earlt 70's
Great thread. I keep checking back in since I'm using some of these pics for reference for a model I'm building. I'm doing a 1970-rules '66 Chevy II as a fictitious local C/MP car.
Hey Colsey, I am a big fan of the Junior Stock thread and just found this one. Anyone remember a '66 Studebaker out of Trenton that had a 327/365hp and a M-22 ???
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