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

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Printing in white at top of picture says Freight Train vs. Sour Sisters

 

Geez I thought that this might take a day or two. Airline auto sale was on Holt in Pomona. I got the picture from Herb Ries yesterday. The injected Jr. Fueler belonged to Richard Hibbard. The Olds next to Richard was in fact Herbs car with Steve Porter at the other end. WCD,you are the MAN......

 

Yep I think thats them been a few years but I think it was the train (twin Chwvys) vs Safford Gatie & Ratican (blown olds). If anybody knows different I cant argue the point.My fuzzy memory inside a "dented helmet" says that Safford was on a 12 win terror at San Gabe at that time. Anybody confirm or deny that little factoid

 

Another one from San Gabe 3/63

 

Like that...Olds power?

Nice stuff,wrongway.Keep 'em coming

 

Thanks to you for starting this thread & to 296ardun.This thread got me to finally dig out some of the old photos & do something about sharing them with folks that enjoy them & have given me many hours of enjoyment by posting there photos.Most of what I post will be stuff I shot (If I am in the photo I didnt shoot it)
Lets keep this thread rolling

 

Thanks Bucksnort

 

God, I loved San Gabe. Irwindale was good, but San Gabe was just so low key, it was pure grass roots drag racing.

 

I saw it but if the caption referred to all twins as "freight trains," ok, but this is clearly not the Peters & Frank train, it's Jeep Hampshire's effort with two Olds F-85 aluminum engines, first ran unblown, and later Jeep put lungs on them...I sold him one of the motors so know the car well....the other car is Kenny Safford, in the Safford, Gaide, and Ratican car...Ivo called S, G, and R the "sour sisters" because they never smiled, and they appropriated the name.

But, question, Safford, Gaide, and Ratican normally ran Hilborns, this shot shows an Endrele, and a crude airfoil on the car, wonder if this is around the end for this car, which was replaced by the Fuller "Shark Car"?

 

Thank you, and look forward to the pictures

 

Still 3/63 at San Gabe

 

San Gabriel was my first drag strip. Dad took me there starting in the late 1950's.
In the early 1960's I rode my bike to San Gabe with my camera bag in my bike bag on my back.
Great days at that strip and no doubt I was there when these photos were taken.
This was a couple of years before Irwindale opened.
I preferred San Gabe and Fontana. They both were "bare bones", old splintery wood bleachers, dirt, dust and more dirt.
These were drag strips, not casinos.
Bare-bones...just fun, no more was needed.

Oddly enough I took a photo just three hours ago of the old San Gabe site.
I always carry a camera, so, for some reason I snapped this, just hours ago. I always keep the camera focused on "infinity" when I'm driving, so I just point in the general direction and hit the shutter.

Right where all the electrical equipment is was the spot of many great days of drag racing.....

 

I was on a trip with my parents (my first to the west coast) borrowed a 51 Studebaker from my uncle and drove up from Lakewood. Later I found out my uncles neighborhood was home to a few racers of some note (Gene Moonyham, Bill Hays,Brasket or Kanners. The feature at San Gabe that Sunday was Ivo vs A jet car (USA1 I think),Thanks for Your contributions to this thread.

 

Gas Ronda 63 Ford 427-425hp Liteweight !!! Fiberglass hood & front fenders probably still topped 4000lbs. I think this is the pass when the driveshaft (complete with the pinion & pinion support) hit the ground and went about 50 ft up when the car passed over it.

 

Last one for tonight

 

it was probably Ivo Vs. the "Untouchable" jet car owned by Romeo Palamides.
That was the day Ivo came to the starting line with weiners and marshallows on sticks attached to his rollbar on the "Branstormer". I was there and will never forget it.

 

Sherm Sly's G/Gasser

 

As Mike would say IT SOUNDS LIKE RAIL BIRD TALK.

 

Very nice. Always liked Opel's. To me they served to replace the Anglia. G/Gas=6 clynders. Are you familiar with the Ringer and Souder twin engine Tempest D/D? Not a 6 banger, but an inliner nonetheless.

 

No, I'm sorry I don't. Do you have any Pictures?

 

Here you go! Two Tempest 4's.

 

What was the total cu. in. and what were the speeds and et's?

 

Clean setup

 

That was the Day

 

This was the last in a line of 6cyl. cars for Jack Geiger.

 

Looking for some photos of the Harry Hronas Camaro and Monza Pro Stocks that ran in the Dallas area back ithe 70's-80's..Precision Machine..Thanls

 

Now that's getting 8 cylinders the hard way!