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Texas' Carl Stone raced roadsters for many years, appropriated the title "Rollin' Stone" long before the British rock group...here is an early flathead effort at Caddo Mills, one of Texas' oldest drag strips, opened in very early '50s. This and a couple of others from the George Klass collection


Here is a later "Rollin Stone," not sure where


New Orleans own Charles "Boogie" Scott gas altered, blown Olds. This looks like it might be the Winternationals at Pomona, he did race there.


Blurry, from Drag News, 1955. We remember Sid Masters as one of the two partners in the famous Masters & Richter top fuel car from San Lorenzo, CA...but this is how Sid got his drag racing start, in an A/G Olds in Southern California...


Love the description: weird but functional...lots of competition coupes would follow this one in design, dragster frame with bare coupe body...1955


Big, don't know where or when


Tom McEwen, on tour at Union Grove


Blurry, but interesting...Tom McMullen's street roadster, maybe Half Moon Bay or Fremont, clearly he towed it given the tow bar still attached. When metalflake first came out Tom painted the former black car in green metalflake, some liked it, I hated it.....had my encounter on the street in Hollywood when some of us were cruising there in our roadsters, Tom came out of Tiny Naylor's looking for a street race...he chose me off but I knew that my Olds with a single 4-barrel would likely fall to his 6-carb Chev....plus I saw a cop down the street...he sounded pissed that I wouldn't race him but still pretty glad I didn't.


Union Grove, WI...no ID on cars


Fuzzy photo of the Nicholson brothers 34 roadster, this could have been 1950. They set the first world's drag racing speed record with 120 mph at Santa Ana in 1950, running a heavy nitro dose in a radically lightened car...slicks hadn't come yet, but Harold Nicholson understood the need for more rubber on the ground for better traction. Harold would die nine years later at San Fernando in a dragster accident.


I am guessing that this has been posted before, but it is a great shot. Logo on the quarter panel is for Foothill Speed Center, a shop that Steve Evans set up before he started his drag racing announcer career. In my opinion, few guys did more homework to announce drag racing than did Steve...lost him too early.