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

I love these old floppers...... Thanks fer posting!!

 

That's the story I heard.
tommy

 

An****ortment of floppers.....

Oh my,some very rare cars here.Bobby Martindale's Tonka is an ex-Tom Grove car I believe.Jeff Gordon Cuda,and Leroy Worley's Challenger.I've never seen this version of it.Bill Lerner,Snow,Paul Day,Jim Oddy.This stuff is AWESOME ! Dennis Doubleday

 

Nice pix, Bucksnort. I've got a shot of the near car in 20957 at Lebanon. He was kinda traveling with "Wild Bill" Rubin (wasn't everybody named Bill nicknamed "wild"?) from Northeast Speed Enterprises. They were the first race hemis I ever saw in person.

 

Might want to check that post number.
Saw Erv Grant couple weeks ago who started Northeast Speed.
Yep,all the Bills were "wild", wern't they.

 

Well, O.K., "Double D".

Sorry for the blur jobs but I was a 10yr. old kid with a (I think)
Kodak 110 in between doing pit work on Dad's rail.
Get in, (take pics) get out, back to work.

July 1970. East coast A/FC curcuit? Maybe Q-City?
With that ridge in the background ? Any HAMB'er
know that track?

Any-who. Enjoy! - Smoke

 

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God bless ya'll

Thanks for checkin' out the HAMB at this time.

Keep it comin' - Smoke.

 

Besides The Virginia Twister Challenger and Jack Ditmars, Bill Lerner served as one of the few east coast guys to come out West. He did it in the spring of 1971 while it was still snowing back East. He ran a couple of the west coast inj events on straight alky. It was the orange sherbit colored 70 bodied version.

 

A little too new...but man,what an explosion.

 

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anyone have any shots from a track in benton il (think its i-57) early to late 70's...? they had big clocks instead of a tree..

 

Gives new meaning to the old expression "We lost the clutch"

 

I bet he was thanking Garrlets on that one.

 

Big clocks,is it.I would like to see pics of that myself.

 

Brandon, you mean like they had at Thorn Hill?

 

and a few more..

 

Thorn Hill dragstrip in Corinth Ky. were still using the Clocks in the early 90s before finally switching to a modern tree.According to the owner, at that time, they were the only set in operation, and the second set known to exist at the time. The other set was supposed to be owned by nhra and on exhibit somewhere. He also claimed that Thorn Hill was the oldest operating dragstrip. I got to use the clocks but never thought about taking a picture. Andy

 

LOL...back in the early days of the old Yahoo Funny Car site there was a running joke about "cars or cows" regarding some of the photos that were posted there. There are no bad pictures! Keep posting!