New England Rods-n-Kustoms pt 1: A day at the drags

Here's some pics from my grandfather's scrap book. More to come.

 

Cool pics. The only car I personally recognize is the bottom left pic of Don Gallant's 27T. Still running it on the street ocasionally. Looks like Bud Pinto is parked next to Don's roadster there.

 

GreenMonster48
Oh Brother. KILLER. Dig those roll bars. Would you include any history on your grandfather and what tracks/towns he raced and what CC he was in. Great photos. Slim

 

WOW!!!! Those are AWESOME! Thanks!

 

Awesome!

 

Hey. I'm pretty sure my grandfather never drag raced at a sanctioned track, but I'll ask him anyways. He was in the Rockville Choppers car club out of Rockville Connecticut.

 

killer pics. thanks for sharing.

 

Can't wait for part 2....

 

Recognize a coupleaul Fitzgerald's channelled 32 w/the truck grille and Herb Dreher's Model A coupe.A couple others are familiar but can't put names to them.I'll look closer.

 

I thought the Fitzgerald roadster looked familiar, just couldn't come up with the name. It is in 'Cool cars, Square Roll Bars".
The 33-34 coupe with the 37 truck grill looks like the car that became the 'bluebird" (?) before paint.

 

nice pics! do you know what event they where taken at? also that is the Blue bird

 

Thanks for the great pictures and history.Keep um coming.Ask Grandpa if he knew Bob of Pilver Autobody in Hartford. He was a friend of my father and my first exposure to hot rodding. Built quite a few cars for himself and others,always had something in the Autorama.Lived in Coventry I think so may have been in the Rockville club.

 

Do you have any more pics of the blue bird?

 

I was once married to one of Herb Dreher's first cousins. I saw the Model A full fendered hotrod in the old family album and asked about it 35 years ago... Herb was, by many years, the oldest cousin...and all the kids called it "The Coopie Car" . The pics were very early color pics..Herbs dad was an upscale white collar engineer, so I guess they had a good camera in the 50's.

GreenMonster48; You came from Stafford, CT....and although the coupe was from Boston suburbs Hingham or Natick, Herb's mother was born and raised near Crystal Lake Ct near your old town. Small world.

I never saw the coupe in person, and now can't get access to the color pics of it. It was lighter red or reddish orange with full wheel covers. Don't know if it survived. I never met Herb jr., but I knew his parents then.

 

This is great info! I can't wait until I scan in the rest of the photos. Lots of cool stuff.

 

Thank you green...AMAZIZNG pics....

Some of the best shots of those years.

The Dick Kelly coupe is the 3w below Fitzgeralds roadster.

 

sorry I don't

 

Thanks, General....but how did it manage to go from a 3 window to a five window?

 

Me thinks it might be a different car?

 

Check this out tomorrow:

http://johnscustomrods.com/drag_reunion_2010.htm

 

@GreenMonster48 what year was this taken? Photo 10005 does anyone have information on?

 

@GreenMonster48 it looks like my grandfathers old hot rod from 57-59 he sold it in RI in the early 60s.

 

The last picture in the left column is the late Don Gallant's "T" roadster, parked next to one of Bud Pinto's Chevrolet coupes.

 

That coupe belonged to Dick Kelley of The Tyrods of Massachusetts. I think most of the pictures are from 1956. Pic 10003 is the same car.