Vintage shots from days gone by!

great pics good to see shows how times change

 

"Not from my view"!!!

 

"I don't know why"!---The name says "VIAGRA"!!!!

 

Some great drag racing pictures in this video - from the good ol' days!

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Des Moines

 

Posted by SWI


Gary, some WILD drag pix there, man. I hope that's all tranny fluid with no BLOOD here! Wow!

 

Shrewesbury's LA Dart
Photo taken at Niagara Dragstrip, was wrecked at another strip.

 

Barry, I'ma' sterten ta fink its gonna' need more'n a set of sparkplugs!

Doc.

 

Great clip, Darth! Most people today wouldn't know that Buster Keaton did most or all of his own stunts (he was often the producer as well as the star). In those days before computer-generated imaging, he achieved some amazing shots, thanks to very careful pre-planning and timing. Maybe even MORE amazing that he didn't get killed during a shoot! (His contemporary, Harold Lloyd, lost poart of a hand when an explosive he was holding went off. Talk about suffering for your art!)

Any chance someone (maybe Darth or Empire???) can lay hands on the Keaton shot where the entire side of a house falls on him, leaving him standing in the window frame? One shot, not cuts even! What a dedicated movie star!

 

Borrowed from Fans of Niagara Dragstrip FB page

 

Rita Hayworth?

 

I was in Cali, Columbia in 1987, saw a 37 Ford Fordor with no doors or trunk, it was used for passing newspapers. Every morning It would coast down the hill to the hotel where we were staying the papers unloaded and then they started the engine to drive away.
There were quite a few nice USA cars to be seen.
Jay

 

Awesome "Liberty" engine, was developed in a crash program aimed at developing an aircraft engine
to beat anything the Germans had. Due to the recent huge success of their Twin Six, Packard led the
project involving the best Detroit auto engineer and companies. The Twin Six influences in the new
aero engine include the industry's first lightweight aluminum pistons. (A V-8 prototype preceeded the
12-cylinder production engine, above.) Though the Liberty engines achieved all goals, they came too
late in WWI to see much service, leaving stockpiles of affordable surplus engines for postwar aerial
enthusiasts. It's said that Liberties were so plentiful and cheap, in fact, that buying a new one was
moreexpedient than rebuilding a worn engine! (Photo thanks to SoonerFans.)

 

swi66 what a blast from the past those Niagara photos are for me. Lots of familiar cars running that SUNDAY, SUNDAY Niagara.

Thanks so much.

 

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Yeah Thanks and 'thumbs up' to
"]swi66"for all those great pics from
'back in the day' at Niagara! Growing
up in the early-and mid-60's in and
around Hamilton and Stoney Creek
Ont., Niagara was practically a local
track...only about a 60 miles tow and
a quick 'no hassle' back then, hop
across the border. A lot of local
Hamilton, Stoney Creek, St.
Catharines and even some Toronto
area racers raced regularly at Niagara,
as well as at 'Kohler Super Boss
Dragway' (Still in operation but now
grossly misnamed as the "Toronto
International Raceway") at Cayuga
Ont. I'm wondering, ]swi66, if you
have any pics of one my neighbours
cars who was a regular and
somewhat famous at Niagara? His
name was Danny Newconb and he
always had absolutely immaculate,
first class, race cars - first in 1966
through to about 1969 - a straight
axled, stack-injected Big Block '66
Chevelle gasser - "The Street Cleaner
I" - that he later switched from
gasoline to nitro and match raced
- and then from about 1969 or so,
onwards, , a '40 Chev coupe - The
Street Cleaner II" also a gasser and
also later converted to a nitro-burning
match racer too. One of the little
'trademarks' of both "Street Cleaner"
cars, besides always immaculate
paint, lettering and lots of chrome,
was, in deference to their name, a
small 'whisk broom' attached to the
rear bumper Despite being somewhat
famous regulars at Niagara and other
area tracks circa 1966 into sometime
in the early '70's, never come across
any pictures of either of these two
cars on the net. Do you ("]swi66") or
does anybody else here remember
Danny Newcomb and his "Street
Cleaner" cars? Anybody got any
pics, or even some memories or
reminiscences of seeing them
run 'back in the day"??

Mart3406
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Source sez that beastly contraption chasing the Ford is some sort of snow cruiser from the late 30s. Does anyone know any more about it? I looked around the 'net, couldn't find anything about it.

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