Hot Rods Help ID: Vintage Old dragster thingy!!

I studied the pictures for about ten minutes and did not notice there was no steering,,
not till I read this quote,, seems I momentarily suffered from cranial rectitis

It is a keeper,,

 

Chad
Way beck before the day of sand drags dune buggys used smooth tires, the idea was to float on top of the sand and not dig into it. What you are looking at was common in the Pacific North West when I was a kid, we called them sand buggies.

That is not to say that the car you are looking at was not a dragster of some sort at one time or another but in the form it is in now it certainly resembles the sand buggies that were getting built in the NW when I was young.

 

Yea you should've see us trying to get it on the trailer with the front wheels all kinds of bowlegged!! hahaha!!!

Yea Beaner... It makes total sense because there is a sandy river just a mile north of where I first saw it. I didn't think smooth tires would go in sand!!

 

CJ, would it be okay to share your water pumper buggy on my Old School Dune Buggies and Sand Rails page -see link below. I try to provide a bit of info on the buggies that are featured since the page is dedicated to preserving the history of the buggies and people/organizations that laid the foundation for today's duners. If interested, I can be reached by email, pourbird@comcast.net or post a private message at the following link. Thank you for your consideration. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Old-School-Dune-Buggies-and-Sand-Rails/229443403847250

 

Pour Bird, please feel free to use these two mid-60s images from slides I got at an estate auction. Only info I have was that they were shot in Death Valley, and it looks like this one has a Studebaker engine:

 

Looks like an original HA/GR
don

 

Thanks Chris! Did you happen to check out the FB page with all the old buggies?