Vintage shots from days gone by!

"Son, someday you'll be big enough to drive my Crosley!"
"OK, so, like in a week and a half?"

 

What's going on here? Guy holding a torch?
The interior in flames, what is the pole through the windshield?
Saw blade in roof?

I'm glad that most of us settle for painted flames...

 

Ronnie Spector?

 

Great pic. I just never did "get" their slogan.

 

"I eat punks like you for breakfast!"

 

Just a random photo from back in the day, probably 1959 or 1960. The '34 Ford would have been about 25 years old in 1959, about the same age difference as a 1992 Mustang would be today. I kind of miss drag strips where there are grass and weeds in the pits. I miss dragsters with drag slicks about 8-inches wide, with dog sled style roll bars and steering wheels shaped like dog bones. I miss Moon wheel covers on dragsters, and headers that aim backwards rather than up, and leaf springs in the front, and a tach bolted on the cowl, and the hand operated fuel pump on the dash.

I would not trade my memories of even one day at the drag strip in the 1950's and 1960's for free tickets to every NHRA National Event for the rest of my life...

 

Headlight final adjustments. Rams lifts under car assure car is level with target measuring units and side contact arms make sure target units are aligned correctly (side to side) to car.

 

Carol Conners, who wrote, "Hey Little Cobra" in response to a challenge from Carroll Shelby. Great Story.
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/08/hey-little-cobra.html

 

Hey GK,
Great recollection of the good old days. Those memorable times at Lions Dragstrip in Long Beach will forever be burned into my brain. Watching those old movie films keeps it alive. The early innovations made it all fun and exciting back then.

Jnaki
It was simple, but very functional. Backyard hot rodding at its finest...

 

A great picture of Eddie Kuzma's work with the Schmidt 44, the Central Excavating 81 and the Racing Associates 3. More than a dozen wins for these cars over a great number of years.

 

Thank you, old flopper

Ben

 

Thats not a '32 roadster.

 

HEY!----------Remember all those '76 styrofoam balls?????????

 

Hunting all those "Ducktails"

 

Right on.

 

The Bluebird cafe is great - good food and friendly staff. Sometimes there is a local beekeeper selling honey out of a Willys pickup right near there. Thanks for picture!

 

Rootie..I know the two midgets Easton and Turner Where was the photo taken at.....

 

I believe it's 16th St. Speedway in Indy 1955.

 

58 post 88...very low number build.

 

Boy do I.
My friends dad had a 76 station next door to our grade school and it was standard practice to stop on the way home for those things, we stuck them EVERYWHERE.

 

I got a whole bag full of '76 styrofoam antenna balls
I found them along time ago. Cant even remember where I got them now

I knew they would be worth something sometime,,,,,, Any bidders?
P.S. pic


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I can't ever recall seeing a 58 Olds 2dr. sed. I like it. Thanks Jimmy six for posting.

Pat

 

That's not what I meant when I told you to go fire up the car!!!

 

That would be a toboggan (narrow snow sled). Gary

 

They got stolen as fast as you could put them on!