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

Vintage Gasser....super bitchin photos............. THANKS!!!!
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distance from Lions to Irwindale would be about 35 miles depending on how you go...not that you would....both strip put on too good of a show to leave and go to another one...
The two strips only overlapped in years from 1965 to 1972....

Lions closed at the end of 1972
Irwindale opened at the end of 1965

Lions opened in 1955
Irwindale closed in 1977

 

oh, the route from Lions to Irwindale...easy

Irwindale at at the junction of the Foothill Freeway (210) and the 605 Freeway
Lions was at Alameda and 223rd St., roughly put, the Long Beach Freeway and the San Diego Freeway...in the southwest part where the two come together.
If you left Irwindale, you'd go onto the 605, south, to the 405 Freeway (San Diego Freeway) northbound to Alameda....

 

I'm still amazed to this day I was able to "milk it home," after a night of bracket racing, over the pass called Hacienda Heights enroute to Fullerton with only a few dabs of clutch material barely hanging on. The Poncho for about a 8 months prior to Uncle Sam's calling was a weekly regular in '66,

 

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Thanks for the Lions/Irwindale responses.

vintagegasser..that is a great shot of your Pontiac.One of my favorite body styles.

 

Plum,
I would like to ask you a question about this photo.I'll send you a PM.

 

I think I know where the front end of this car is!!!!!!! I'll grab a picture of it today!!!

 

So noted. The photo of Hess racing Pierce Trucking must have been for A/Gas honors, not AA/GS. I believe the Critter was later sold to the Pacini Brothers out of Sacremento.

 

Actually it was the other locally owned Anglia of the Kohler Brothers that was bought by the Pacini Brothers. Those early match races when both cars first upgraded to blowers were something else to watch at the time and soon the Austins of C&O and Jr. Thompson would follow.

 

Irwindale "Monkey Motion" Altered

 

Irwindale "Monkey Motion"

 

Irwindale Gas Ronda and Walden Brothers

 

Riverside HRM Meet

Hurst Hairy Olds Jack Chrisman's topless Comet

 

Photo's now included

 

Looks like this was soon after the first blown SBC was put in the car. This was the first ever Anglia with a blower motor (thank goodness for AHRA) When Skip went to the BBC, he had Jack Burr letter "Rat Motor" on the scoop.

As a side note, I had first met Skip when the car was being photographed at Temple City Park for an HRM article, but as an A/Gasser (no blower). We chatted for a while and he invited me to come over to his house sometime. The following Saturday morning I went over there (about 2 miles from my house) and they were just finishing up bolting in the blower motor. When it was ready, we closed the garage door and fired it up! I've been in love with blown gassers ever since! Of course I don't hear so well anymore, but who cares!
The attached pic is a pit shot of the first time the car was run with a blower. Memory tells me that Skip lost to SWC that evening, but became the first blown Chevy powered Gasser to run 150 several weeks later.

 

Thought the Gasser fans here might enjoy Pete Millar's take on the Gasser Wars from 1965.