Anyone have pictures of abandoned Drag Cars?

Looks like a Ford Banjo rear axle, Is it a 40 Ford?

 

old roundy rounder. looks to be 37-38 ford, the little hook on the dash was to hold the shifter in gear so it wouldn't come out while racing. very cool piece! SW guages still intact, that seat is cool too. Guessing the hole in trunk was to fill fuel? let trapped air out?? Light on roof to flat tow it home...

 

SBC header in lower right of last pic. Why the light on the rear roof?

 

doing that would be a crying shame unless its soo cracked and brittle it wont hold together just my opinion you can do what you like

 

Kool thread I hope it keeps going, I think all of us loves seeing the possibilities they bring to mind.

 

Just noticed 2 temp guages.... LH (Left Head) on bottom, had to of once run a flattie.

 

Wow, the interior door panel looks to be a 57 Chevy 150, cool car, worth saving, good luck.

 

olddrags,,
Is the car still sitting,, Is it for sale?

 

Wow Don, your backyard is filling up these days. Ha

 

GUY drag raced this in 60s He got frame from mail truck RH drive ran a 289 had a e brake set up to do donuts!

 

was looking at these photos (again!) and just noticed that center bracket on the dash with the toggle switches. Looks like there's a master cylinder or slave cylinder mounted that's maybe missing the handle now......some kind of early line-lock?






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Love it

 

I had a chance to buy "The Missouri Mule" back in the late '70's/early 80's. Didn't do it. What was I thinking? LOL Anyway, I have a video tape of footage shot back in the 60's that has a glimpse of "The Mule" sitting in the pits at a dragstrip, that if I remember correctly was down around Springfield, MO.

 

Hey Mr Gasser,

Yeah,that's the same car you posted earlier,my dad built it in 1967 and it was originally driven by Coney Island Ralph Landolphi,then Rapid Red Lang and finally Bruce Bohen who had the most success with it.

Two bodies were constructed by Ron Pelligrini from Fiberglass Limited fame,he ran the other car called "Superbird" powered by a Hemi and dad built Ingenue with a 8-71 blown 430 Buick on nitro...still today it remains the world's only Buick-powered Buick F/C.

S/XS was the precursor before F/C became a class.

Thanks for your interest,sounds like you need a Ingenue/Brooklyn Speed & Machine t-shirt and some decals. Hope you caught it featured in Hot Rod magazine last year.

 

FREMONT- 1979 taken by me....

 

S/XS = Supercharged Experimental Stock.

 

About 15 years ago I was in a garage looking at a funny car body and frame.Trying to convince the owner that his idea of converting it to a street car was a bad idea.He wouldnt sell and the house and garage have since been torn down.No idea what ever happened to the flopper.It had no artwork or paint on it so I dont know who may have driven it.No pics,sad to admit.It was southwest of Minneapolis if anyone knows of it.

 

my 40 stude gasser sat in irwindale for years , thanks to gup for buying it on ebay 6 years ago and selling it to me about a year ago! ... now that i found the history, it will live again as it looked before

 

more please, cool thread.

 

here is one that is far from abandoned ( a fellow hamber has it) but it is right in line with the other stuff posted on this thread

 

I know I posted some of these in a "Super Stock..." thread,but they're appropriate here.

 

Im amazed by some of you guys !! 1 Crappy pic of a rusted, beat-up shell and the next post is the total history of the car along with pics of the car in the day !! DAMN !!!!!!!!

 

These are not drag cars but they are old race cars in a junk yard....

 

SOMEBODY save them!!! I do dig the modified coupe with the wing-as probably do about a thousand other cats on the site!

SAVE THOSE CARS!!! PLEASE!

 

local shuffletown dragway regular in charlotte nc.

 

This is just wrong on so many levels!

Paul

 

Eleven years ago I crashed this car. It is the last Logghe altered built. I shoved it in the shed, undecided what to do with it. Last year I got it out and started to rebuild it.





I will run the original 300 Ford inline six in it - hopefully this year.

 

well well, i think that is my old austin, had it in 65 66 with 409 in it in okc . without the scoop. aluminum two seater??

 

This was my fathers hotrod back in the day, it's a 51 chevy, i'm redoing it now

 

Are any of these for sale? Especially the midget, some one needs to try to save it. Or is it one of the "I'm gonna fix it up someday" cars?

Crying shame to see that midget treated like that, it looks fairly complete too.