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

Detroit Dragway 1959 Flag starter and white wall slicks

 

Here's some photos that where taken pre 1968.... Hopefully they fit into the "rules" of the hamb...




My Dad racing his 40 Willys against the Lemma Bros. austin at Atco, 1965



My Dad racing K.S. at Vargo dragway in 1968...



My Dad running the K.S. 33 at Atco in the summer of 68, Harry Hall was driving the K.S. car..

 

The late great Pork Zartman...Pork was a good friend, I miss him every day..

 

My buddy Freddy Frey driving Charlie "Bongo" Greer's Spectrum funny car (pre 68)

 

Pete Millar in his cool comp coupe...

 

Another bad ass comp coupe...Eddie Potter.

 

Heres a pretty well known pair from my neck of the woods. Bet Rick remembers these two...

 

Another NW AWB car, Gary Coe's 289 powered '57.

 

Heres the Alan Green Chevy II in later days...

 

Now there is one from the dark ages. Neil Leffler in the Leffler & Loukas comp coupe. They beat the Speed Sport Roadster in the final of middle eliminator at the '59 March Meet. This coupe was bad ass!

 

If you deleted every picture that was 1969 or newer you would loose at least half of this thred.

 

Bitchin !!!

 

...and the problem with that would be?

 

Thanks for the pics, Rocky.

Eddie Potter must have had brass-chrome-iron-steel balls! The look on his face is great, like they just lunched the engine and someone said, "Hey Eddie, SMILE!"

 

Agreed, and not a bad idea. At least maybe we could stick to that from here forward? Should I set up another alternate thread for drag cars in motion, '69-'80? Just concerned the mods might close that one??

 

I have NOTHING to contribute to this thread as I was born 8 years after the end of this time period.

Just wanted to say I have enjoyed the hell out of the pictures but mostly the stories that go along with them.

Keep up the great work mods by keeping this on topic and keep the pics coming.

-stan

 

Bragger.

 

Indeed

 

So there would only be 14,000 posts?
Might be a little over the deadline, but I don't think so.
Larry T

 

Well, school is still out.....(but I'm a natural born skeptic.)

 

Yeah, but like John Madden used to say, "it ain't bragging if you did it!"....and he did it...(is that Don Tuttle in your last photo, chute-out shot?)

 

Yes

 

Sounds like a great ideal.

 

Another one from Detriot Dragway 1959 legging it through

 

Detroit Dragway motion in the pits

 

More vintage iron from Detroit Dragway 1959

 

Smokin the skins Detroit Dragway 1959

 

You can start a drag car thread for cars that were build yesterday, but the suject mattter, the cars themselves, still have to be HAMB friendly, which is to say pre-1966 or 1964, depending upon sho you talk to. If you read the rules first, it will become obvious that cars from '69-'80 would not be welcome on the HAMB.

 

these photos are courtesy of Jay Mangum used with his permission.
captions for the photos can be found here:
http://jaybirdseye.smugmug.com/Cars/Vintage-Dragsters-of-the-60s/5060683_LQYAa#304441101_8c6Jm

 

No.

Anything that new is Off Topic for the HAMB, and will be Deleted.