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

Yes, it is McEwen and Adams, a rare time when they ran a Pontiac...car was initially Olds powered, if I remember right, the engine belonged to Mickey Thompson, but I don't remember how it would up in Adam's car...I remember seeing it at Lions....and I think it was a gas-burner, but not sure...

 

Yes, Carlsbad

 

Ivo racing the Cook Brothers & Jahns dragster at San Gabriel. Cook Brothers ran a blown Dodge on fuel, 3-wheeled sidewinder that used a jack start...fired the engine, kept it lit, and then rolled to the starting line, dropped the hydraulic-powered jack and off it went....Jim Tice ultimately banned it...

 

From George Klass, Harry Duncan ran his engine in Ed Losinski's dragster, painted bright purple...rear radius rods indicated that this was before solid-mounted rear ends...injected 354" Chrysler.


Early Jim Nelson before Dragmaster...I think that the canted front wheel is because the photo is bent.


Not sure who this is


Hawaiian...Roland Leong had a stable of drivers for the Hawaiian series


This might be Jim Boyd's "Red Turkey," Jim's son Mike now drives the Winged Express.


Very early winged express before the wing....if I remember right, Al Barnes suggested the wing, seeing in on modifieds....notice the early Howard chain blower drive...


Colton starting line and pits....


I think that this is Jim Shores, 6-cylinder street roadster....Jim would go on to partner in the Shores & Hess Anglia gasser and later the Fireball Vega funny car...


No IS


Hart and McCandless at Santa Ana, Jack Hart and Charles McCandless, front-mounted blown Chrysler...


Shutoff area at Riverside, ran under the spectator bridge...

 

This is The Duncan & Shores C street roadster.

 

The Duncan & Shores roadster today, owned by Brian "The mailman" Bauer from Monrovia. Still running a 6. A V6 that is.

 

Big George Burkhart was 6'10"...does anyone have pics of him with the car/team? I'm his granddaughter and many of the photos we had were lost. Would love to see some good ones from the "good old days" as he called them. I know I'll never forget my first driving lesson with him!

 

Mcmullen roadster. Note the roll bar, was bolt in. Love the pressure pump on the MOON tank.

 

There are some pictures of the Burkhart, Brammer, and Burns roadster, but not many that I can find have the principles in them....maybe this one, taken by Dean Lowe at Pomona in '59....The big guy in the t-shirt is Everett "Hippo" Brammer, but George may be in the picture also...I knew Hippo, but not George, so I wouldn't recognize him (This picture was posted on a another thread on this site)...
AND...car was featured in the September 1959 issue of Hot Rod Magazine...George might be in the pictures there...

 

Just the other one that I also posted on this thread....I have never seen any pictures of this car anywhere else.

 

God, I LOVED drag racing! Thanks for reminding me with these GREAT pics and stories.

 

Here is another picture of the Burkhart, Brammer & Burns roadster at Riverside...don't know if George is in it or not:




This is George Burkhart in the '29 roadster, far side, racing Harold Nicholson, very early '50s.

 

Really? Is that the only roadster you recognize in this photo? The one that cleaned Tom's clock by over a second in that race. The one with the Moon tank that was actually functional? I guess there is value in tooting your own horn, and Tom was the best I ever knew at that!

 

I saw that Dean. McMullen sure could pat himself on the back. I built custom motorcycles in the mid 70's AEE Choppers had the best ads, the parts, not so much. But, that being said, I loved that roadster. I know it has gotten some bad raps here because of some questionable engineering but it had everything a boy from Michigan thought all the California hot rods had.
By the way, your RP was also on my favorites list. I was jealous of you and the hot rod relationship you had with your dad. Mine was a machinist and helped me all the time, but I'm sure he never 'got' the hot rod thing.

Funny thing is, mu kids don't get it either.

 

Nice rail, somebody photoshop out the modern day cars in the background. And, no 1950's pic was ever that clear, I don't care who you were.

 

Rollema and Hill, beautiful candy blue, polish and chrome, either Jerry Rollema or Stan Hill drove...the wheel pants didn't last, though....

 

Car looks cool, but that's not an old pic.....look at the cars in the background...