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

No ID...

 

Patty Foster in the Addict fueler...

 

Notes say Niagara Gold Cup 1968...Michael Yantch photo, signed by Billy Lynch of course.

 

From above -
With two Hemi's with blowers, even 30psi of air in the tires couldn't keep'em from wrinkling sitting still ! Notice the lower frame rail vs. the ground where the body stops...


Mike

 

^^ Looks like Motes & Williams T/G twin out of Kansas.

 

Bill Mullins

 

Raceway Park, Englishtown N.J. Late 60s.

 

Jerry Bivens Checkmate Carlsbad...

 

This car & owner are from my hometown - Russell, KS. He (R.C. Williams) still has the car today. It was world champion in Top Gas in 1970 & 1971, I believe.

 

Man you have the nicotine habit bad when you have to smoke and drive an open cockpit race car

 

I have watched that car run back in the KCIR days.

 

These are the only photos I have seen of it with one engine.

 

Groovy paint job! Van Iderstine should be a familiar name if you're from the East Coast.

 

Yup, I'm originally from KC (Hickman Mills) and went to Ray Motes' Independence Day soiree in Olathe for several years (even had the Flying Dutchman funny car on display one year and lit it off). Hung out at Dick Harrell's shop on HM Drive and KCIR - so sad that it's closed now...

More drag pics! Another gas class team from KC...

 

I miss top gas. You had to tune on gas blown. You had to be aware of conditions changing. Lippy

 

1970 T/G champion...there was no Top Gas in 1971.

 

Hard Guys A/FD...

 

Charlie Tolbert bad day at the office...

 

Logghe Liner 1964...

 

Brissette & Sutherland...

 

Smokers Meet 1965...

 

Funny thing about this picture, the driver list does not include Goober Tuller, next to Bob Muravez, perhaps the named driver most associated with the car.

 

Did the clutch cut it in half? And if it did, it that the driver standing there?