Folks Of Interest The Mongoo$e Tom McEwen

I was sorting through some old photos and found a few shots of my friend Tom. He also has an official Mongoo$e fb page for you guys that like 'push' technology in your web experience.

http://www.facebook.com/MongooseRacing?ref=ts&sk=wall

 

Damn, he's gotten old...

 

Old! I think he looks good for a guy who was traveling all over this country back in the sixties! I used to have a 45 record of him desribing a pass in the Hot Wheels flopper-I think that it was a dub-over, but all of us kids thought that it was recorded right there in a nitro burning FUNNY CAR in real time,LOL!

 

Haven't we all!

 

Yeah! I look like an ol' fart myself @ 51

 

He is just about the coolest old bastard a guy could hang out with. Knows EVERYBODY too, of course.

 

OLD? Dude hes 74! 45 ys of being a drag racer to boot. Legend.

 

Ask him if that recording is still out there to be downloaded or something! I would love to have that again to play at club meetings and such!

 

I think you are confused about "push" technology. Facebook is no more "push" than the HAMB.

 

What a legend! I still have my 2 hot wheels floppers from the late 60's!

 

Yes, but how else can your bosses wife force you to read about what she ate for lunch?

 

Same here!! including the track and chutes....



I also have the 1/24 scale Snake & Mongoose 'Cuda and Duster model kits that I haven't started on......yet!

 

Ya know, I had those also. Too bad I still don't. That was A BIG deal for kids back in the day.

 

i always stared at that kit (the double pack with the start line and christmas tree) at the toy shop but i could never save the money to buy it and when i finally did they had already sold it and told me they could'nt get it anymore

 

STILL HAVE THEM BOTH ....Both for sale too . Also have snake & mongoose cards (1970)
YOU WOULD LOOK OLD TOO IF YOU WENT FAST ALL YOUR LIFE.
"AND THE BOWTIE ROLLS ON"

 

Tom is what a real racer is all about. I was a big fan of him as any kid in the early 70's. As a teenager i did alot of street racing and then switched to the track. I did fairly well so i decided to step it up to a funny car. I was working on the motor plates & trans coupler and had some questions so i went to Gainner's shop to see how others have done theres and that is when i meet Tom. He was more than willing to give me some very valuable advice on fc desgine and setup plus some real kool racing stories.

 

We were all kids at one time or another... Did they look anything like these??? I also included a pic of the 1997 release model combo kit box art...

 

NO....like this .
"AND THE BOWTIE ROLLS ON"

 

She can't, it's all in the settings....

 

Thank you Mr. Brown!! For posting those pictures! I remember seeing the dragsters in a store (S.S. Kresgie's)?? back in the early '70's, but I never did buy those.. Lack of $$.. Anyway, I was getting a little too old to be playin' with Hot Wheels..

 

This thread kicks ass!! Let's keep her goin'!! Anyone else have pics to add??? From what I've read in the past, the Snake and the 'Goose only paired up once er twice with their Hot Wheels sponsored(sp) floppers... I think it was at Lions...?? I could be wrong..

 

My pleasure . I don't play with HOT WHEELS either , these are to high dollar .

 

of course

 

I'll post more tomorrow , so keep in touch . Don't want to steal the show.
"AND THE BOWTIE ROLLS ON"

 

WoW!! I love that 35TH anniversary "adult" edition combo set!! They still have those in stores???....

Thanks again for posting those!!

 

I'll try and keep the "fire" lit on this one!!

 

I was fortunate enough to interview Tom McEwen for WFMU radio right after he won Top Fuel at Etown in 1991 at the NHRA Summernats/Supernats... That's right, I said, "Top Fuel"... That was the only time in his long career that he took a NHRA Top Fuel national win (you usually think of Tom seated in the cockpit of a Funny Car)... He's a very humble and sweet guy... There's no denying that Tom "Mongoose" McEwen's history in the sport of drag racing is a most colorful one...

The H.A.M.B., the "thinking" hot rodder's web site...

 

I think the 35th was issued in 2005. ADULT ???? WHO ME ?
"AND THE BOWTIE ROLLS ON"
til-tomorrow
THANXZ DOC. IMPRESSIVE.

 

Ummm..... That was you in '91???

So, who's the lucky guy???

 

You need to settle down big BAD boy(DEUCES)