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

DITTO, Stay safe

 

Stay safe 296ardun.

 

Reminder for the new folk here: The HAMB is '65 and earlier and this thread has special dispensation to go up to '68. There's a thread on the Dogfight site for newer posts!

 

#39289 Pic is my personal photo of Otie's Automotive taken at the 1962 US Nationals with a 110 camera, when it ran in A/R and was painted black not the familiar red. Thanks for posting
......................."Banana Man Racing".

 

Cars like the High & Mighty roadster brought about the end of actual street roadsters in the cl***. Guys like me could not compete with purpose built cars.

 

Its a shame that the true street roadsters went away. Here are a few more pictures.

 

Does anyone know when the Street Roadster rules mandated original shape fenders on all 4 corners. Cars like this one and Dean's were at a disadvantage, against the "sickle fendered" examples posted above.

 

Now a few Plymouths

 

Cool pics Gold Dust! - Love those old angry funny cars.

 

keep those awb pics coming. those cars are my favorite.

 

Nice pics!

 

As far as I know, the rules only ever called for fenders on all 4 tires. It never specified what type. Aero was not a big concern at the speeds we were running in the 60's. The advantage the cycle fendered cars had was the fenders were lighter, and they could use cl*** weight on the rear for ballast. My car was 100% steel Ford, and still needed 80lbs of steel plate in the bed to make cl*** with 301 cu in. I never even considered anything but the stock fenders.

 

Charles' Galaxie back in '67 I believe at Green Valley Raceway, he's a local guy that runs a machine shop in Arlington, TX. He still has a Thunderbolt he races.