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

I always admired Jess VanDeventer's B/MR, with the white paint, it was so sanitary.

 

Happy times.

 

I like this truck !

 

Dick Kalivoda's Modified Roadster at McMinnville,Oregon in 1960. I visited with Dick at the Grand Opening of the "World OF Speed" Museum here in Oregon, a couple of weeks ago. The car is on display, heard lots of stories about this one !

 

Hi Ardun
I worked at Tom Carroll Chevy in San Fernando in 59' right out of school, and bought a repo 59' Impala 3- 2's -4 speed and stock cam
One Sunday nite about 12 I was setting at a red and heard a Rumpy Rump pull up next to me in the left lane and the street racers Rapa Rapa do you want to race it signal
Well he beat me by a couple lengths , waved and turned left to go home
The next day at work I went on a side street and there was this White 57' Chevy 2 dr, boy thats car from last nite so at lunch time I walked into the back of the Buick store in S.F. and saw this tall lanky dude and asked if that was his car
Well we became friends after that meeting, invited me to meet his friends over in N. Hollywood and go to a Road Kings meeting
But I was only 19 and figured I was a bit too young to be in that club, but in hind sight I sure should have joined since I built my 37' gasser a little later and would have fit right in as you had to be a racer to be a member
I also met his friend Ray Cash, both he & Kenny were cool guys to know

G Don

 

Looks like Allison behind the car (just above the smoke from the left slick). Looking forward to seeing her at BG next month with grandson Tyler wheeling the latest Great Expectations digger.

Roo

 

Gene Altizer's Plymouth

 

Frank Bradley?

 

Mike Hoag, left, who built the chassis when he still worked for Blair's, and Steve Bovan, right...The car had a 'glass body but the doors still worked, even had handles on them. Bovan started out with a blown 427 BB and later ran Barry McGowan's blown hemi boat engine....too much power, shelled out hydro trans on a regular basis....Don Blair had long since quit straight-away racing and gone to circle tracking, track roadsters and then sprint cars....I never forgot his first take on Bovan's funny car, which had torsion bars and a sprung rear end: "all that technology just to go straight!" He only went once to see the car run, at Irwindale, but he also understood that drag racers who saw it race would also be potential customers at his shop...

 

That is my Dad on the right...thanks, Tom!

 

Great bit of history right there. Wonder if the ''Moser'' in that photo is the Moser Eng. family?

 

Vintage top fuel question, was Weiand the first to make the top mounted 6-71 blower manifold for the 354-392 Chrysler

And who of the early heavy hitter's was the first to run it, and led the way for all the fuelers for years to come

 

My recollection was yes, Weiand was the first, and Art Chrisman was the first to run one...he bought it after he blew the front-mounted blower ducting on Hustler I, but Weiand had only cast them, but not drilled or tapped the holes for the injectors or the head mounting holes, so Art bought it anyway, drilled and tapped it himself, and ran it at the first Smoker's meet...here are the results of the final round, run in almost total darkness using spectator headlights to light the track. Waters, far lane, spun out and Art won. One of the crew members drove over one of the front American mags so Art had to run steel wheels on this run. The car is unpainted because the previous blower ducting explosion required new body work, no time for paint: