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

The Ozark Mule!

 

Need to keep the front end down? Just put a big ol' rock on it! Jeez!

 

One of ours back in the day...

 

Buster Jackson from Morristown,NJ ???

 

A/G GTO, how cool is this?

 

I had the Drag Racing USA edition that contained a color article on the car. A very nice looking rig.

 

A/Gas indeed. The track must have taken a liberal stance on what constitutes a gasser. Note how far back the motor and driver are positioned. Clearly it appears that the thing might have once served as an early flooper.

 

I'll bet the engine is legal. Front sparkplug 10 or 11 inches behind the axle centerline is a bunch, especially when you consider that the engine was probably close to centered over the axle centerline stock.
Larry T

 

The limmit was 10% from the spindle to the closest spsrk plug, looks legal to me.

 

My first live dragway experience around 1966 at Windsor Dragway. Other than my brother driving me there in my Dad's '66 Impala at 100mph, Seaton's Shaker and Color me Gone match race has left an imprint on me forever......

 

Sneaky Pete's small block Ford AA/FD

 

That don't look right! - Chute get tangled?

 

Big Jim!

 

You know, the driver is pretty far back at that. Probably a C/XS car. At our strip (Woodburn), there were not usually enough cars for a lot of class racing, sometime things got, er, liberal. If the weight/cubic inches was about the same, and nobody protested, it was done a lot. I doubt if there were a ton of gassers there, and this was probably the only C/XS.

 

Back in 1987 A major hot rod collector from Battleground,Wa. named Jim Donovan owned the "Rattler". He brought it to my shop to have me shorten the chassis and mount an injected flathead in it. I talked him out of doing the job, probably because I felt guilty for prior offenses I had committed. A couple of years before I mounted a big block Chevy and automatic in one of the old "Bounty Hunter" Mustangs for a local kid to go bracket racing. Jim put his flathead back in the "Lloyd Bakan" 32 coupe and went back racing it. The good thing is the "Rattler" and Connie's Mustang are both restored.

 

Not a car in motion, but so what?

 

Check out the payout for winning!

 

I think that this is John Mitchell's "Red Mountain Special," saw it run a bunch of times but never saw the rock on the front...that's a real first!

 

me, been in Alabama too long?...no way! (y'all got some grits out there?)

 

I have seen countless shots of this car throughout the years. It is so cool.

 

Wow what a disparity, Bracket 1 includes cars that run the 9's all the way down to the 13's! Mr. Sanguino must have be a very patient man to have sat there for all that time as Bentz just kept going and going and going...

 

Stardust Raceway, Las Vegas 1968....

Jim Nicoll...



Jerry Ruth...



'Train vs. Gas House Gang...



Tony Nancy...

 

Check out Muravez' lead over Walt Rhodes. When the Train was in sync, it was a killer. Also note that the fuelers were still hazing the track at what appears to be the 1/8th. This despite the advent of the slipper clutch. I find Nancy's rail to be tasteful withs little shark fin attached to the roll bar. Racer Brown was choice of cam here in Glendale, but I havent found anyone who knew of its whereabouts.

 

Ballast was not always okay... but an "airfoil" was. That is an early model front wing. sorry referencing #30672

 

That is not Bob Muravez....Sam Davis who drove the Train in 1970 is trying to find out from Peters who was driving that day. Sam remembers driving it at Vegas but not in 1968.