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

HEY....I took that photo when I was about 12...that's the return road at Lions, just past the tower where they'd stop to get their times slips...

 

Way to go,Mazooma.
You had the knack early.
Found it floating on the net.

 

...and here's the very next photo on that roll of film, just moments after the Fiat altered one.....1962....
note the shadows..identical time of day

 

great photo, I think that this is the ex-Ratican-Jackson-Stearn Fiat, which Woody Duke bought and ran as the Cloverleaf Aviation special, think that this was his company (glad the car is restored to sort of its original)...

 

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Words almost fail me. Betcha the pucker factor was HIGH when driving in this beast.

 

This car shot reminds me of the Miss Deal funny car Studebaker kit offered by Revell in the mid 60's. The box art depicted a blown Stude of same year make launching off the line.

 

This shot reaks of the era when innovative folk could build a comp eliminator car in the garage, or get a chassis through the mail. Note the cool Vette parked along the side of the strip and wooden picket fence serving as lone means of spectator protection.

 

Class designation denotes the car as being a D/Altered. The engine must have had a 25% percent set back, tucked in tight through the firewall.

 

That car belonged to Gary Johnson. I believe that he ran it as a gasser at one time. As I recal,l he was a Whittier neighbor of Richard Salcido (El Monte Service Center) and he showed up early-on in this thread several years ago.

Gary offed the car several years ago. It was a clean classic and I'll bet he wishes he had it back!

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I dig this! The look I am going with my car!

 

Best part of my day right here !

 

Solo:

Speaking of looks, heres one.

Plum

 

We already talked about this earlier in this thread. But who can remember after 27.000 posts. But this car was owned/raced by Bill Bierman here in St.Louis. And re-created by his son Bill of Creative Customs for a fathers day present back in 2007.

 

1 bad and nice mo-sheen......

 

Wasn't "Classical Gas" run by Lou Gasparelli (sp?)?

 

You have it right...the fire-up road ran next to the track, you pushed down, waited, and then pushed out on the track facing the starting line, and then down the track, horn honk from the push car meant you were at around 40MPH, then you hit the mag switch...one night Pat Foster, driving the Childs and Albert car, had the throttle stick and crashed into a car at the starting line, bad accident, and I think that was when the track decided to go to starting rollers...I missed the push starts, especially when I screwed up my first roller start in front of all the starting line spectator stands...

 

A fella told me saw the oil sump of his pushcar after he fucked up the start. The pushcar landed on his roll cage.