Hayward Head Hunter members Charlie Booth and Bob Rosen set a record at Kingdon in 1954 in this C Altered. Courtesy of Don Jensen Wayne Arteaga's Olds powered '51 Henry J gasser. Scanned from Hot Rod Magazine, March 1962, photo credit to Wayne Arteaga. Wayne Arteaga's '51 Henry J displaying how the '58 Olds 371 engine is mounted so far back. Wayne Arteaga's '51 Henry J gasser powered by a blown 371 inch Olds engine. David Green vs Mighty Mouse I raced a B/A at Irwindale, crewed for a number of cars, including the Hawkins & Webster 15oz coupe. Great place to race! The late Don Wilson owned the B/A roadster, I was a week out of Vietnam. This was my welcome back to the world. We set B/A mark at 131 mph with a gas 364" Chrysler. We added some nitro and grenaded it. Wilson and I went on to build "Panic" AA/FA, but I got married and Gary Hazen took over my share. Dave Sorenson driving the Wilson & Sorenson B/A at Irwindale. Courtesy of Dave Sorenson US 131 Dragway. Maybe Rattle Trap
"US 131 Dragway. Maybe Rattle Trap" Looks more like the Pond to me and the car is the original (prior to 1969) straight axle version of Don Green's Rat Trap with George Hutchesson (the Stone Age Man) at the wheel. I just did a bit of follow up research and the above is confirmed as correct. Read about it here: http://wediditforlove.com/Taming.html Roo
"Wayne Arteaga's Olds powered '51 Henry J gasser. Scanned from Hot Rod Magazine, March 1962, photo credit to Wayne Arteaga." Wayne's car was not a gasser as indicated by the B/A designation on the rear fender and reinforced by the engine setback which is way more than the 10% allowed in the Gas classes. Roo
It was a pleasure to meet you at Meltdown, I raced many dragsters both front and rear engine gas dragsters and really like the cars you have done , we would have a dragster instead of the altered except out current garage is too short for a dragster...lol
Wayne Arteaga's Olds powered '51 Henry J gasser as described by HOT ROD in 1962 but we are in the altered thread At Austin Dragway Texas Ganaheim Speed engineering Willie's Pie Wagon
Austin day today Gasser running altered or altered running gasser take your pick JR Thompson & Big john
Great, except for the fact that they always ran the car as a gasser. Unlike the early day of the Anglias the Austin was always gasser legal as it had a 92" wheelbase. The AA on the window in the photos is for AA/G as opposed to the earlier A/GS designation for the class. Instead of having an "S" suffix to designate supercharged cars the NHRA went to the double letter prefix ( AA, BB etc). In a couple of the photos you can see the old A/GS on the rear side window. Roo
Can't tell you anything about the car but the photo is from Beeline Dragway in Arizona and most likely dates from the late 60's. Berge Ford is still in business and is in Mesa AZ. Roo
The body may have been on a race car at some time but the rest is pure street rod--four bar front axle location, radiator, headlights and turn signals, front disc brakes etc. And if you dig a little deeper it is a "faker". Read about it here: http://www.americandreamcars.com/1932bantamalteredaafadragcar0213.htm And here: http://www.torquelist.com/posts/1569/wichita-kansas-autos-for-sale--1932-bantam-alter-aaf-a-drag-car Roo
"The Bandido" altered was not raced for very long but it was a beauty. The Bill Finnacle Bandido Bantam was originally the Beebe Bros and Sixt car." loudbang, you had a little more information on this one when you posted it previously. Roo
Another one from last year, "The Beaver Hunter II fuel altered of Nolan Pritchard and was raced by various drivers into the early seventies. Pritchard had been a partner in the original Beaver Hunter until the partnership split. Nolan built the new car placing Dale Young at the wheel of the yellow altered. Pritchard joined the Leon Fitzgerald’s US Fuel Altered tour. Harry Harrison replaced Young at the wheel. Harrison was known as a heavy footed driver with a never lift reputation that suited the Beaver Hunter II just fine. Other Beaver Hunter drivers included John Force, Henry Harrison, Dale Young, Don Hicks, Tom Oliviras, and Stan Lucas. John Force’s ride ended in a crash on the fire up road! (L&M Photo courtesy of Bob Plumer; information from Rod Hynes and Draglist files) " Roo
Burkholder Bros. Champion Speed Shop Green Valley Drag Strip Let It Fly Nailhead power Mike sullivan at Irwindale
I told enlo you guys are finding great photos of days gone by. Bringing back memories of great cars. Thank you. I am hanging on you guy's shirttail to see this stuff. Thank you.
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