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

Early Les Ritchey ?

 

I wondered about that too. Seems too crude for a Les Ritchey car though.

 

Christmas card ?

 

One of the most recognizable injector scoops in drag racing plus the 'idler pulley thing'. Neat stuff.

 

Surfers and Jim Dunn

 

Mike Sorokin

 

I guess anything is possible but that's a little too much snow on the ground for Covina. Had to have been taken elsewhere.

 

These Guys were the tuffest of the Tuff...... You want to strap in for a ride?
Drag Racing owes these Pilots a debt of Gratitude, for taking us forward to a safer time for the Drivers and for the Sport.

 

Was Czarnecky from Milwaukee.

 

Always loved some of the names on the cars. "Original Sin" for one.
As a kid many times I never really knew who drove the car but you always remembered the cars name.

Those were the day's and it put's a smile on my face to see all the Southern Gasser Association cars with names on them just the way it used to be.
Jimbo

 

HB model Holden Torana (based on an English Vauxhall Viva) at Castlereagh International Dragway, Sydney Australia.

 

Perfect ! Got to see this car many times as a kid in DIV III. and II

 

^^^ It's a shame Ed Hildebrant's Chevy coupe isn't in color. It was red metalflake with black lace panels

 

John O'Hare photo from Detroit Dragway. Early Flinstone Flyer.