Hot Rods Front Engine Dragsters of the 50's

Building one right now

 

^^^. Looks like going to be flathead

 

Big fat tires for that old rear end. I solved the problem with uping the tire pressure. Low cost, too.

Great-looking start -- keep it coming!

 

Chevy II 4 banger with a 4/71 blower off the crank (potvin) and a 2 port Hilborn

 

More pressure!

 

Friend and I owned this for a few years. We bought it off a guy at W.O.T. show. We never did anything with it and ended up selling it to a guy in Ohio. It had a N.E.D. sticker from 1957 on it.

 

Those were given to me and they are original M&H pies crusts. Had to put tubes in them cause they leak from all the cracks, Trying to find the correct size is taking longer than I expected, so these are in use till that happens. Towel City offers a slightly narrower tire, but the tire and the cost to get them is over $600 now and will have to wait, other things are needed first

 

Ernie Hashim

 

Same color (Smokers?) as Tony Waters? First wheelie bar?

(I bought some M&H Front Runners from Hashim. First time I could actually steer the car.)

 

Tom Taros

 

In Orange from '58.

 

According to @296ardun these are all the same car.

 

The year was 1960 ; 3 of my pals and I took a (camping-along-the-way) trip from Hillcrest , NY to Detroit, Mi. to see the NHRA Nat's dragraces. Top Eliminator was the Albertson Olds dragster, as seen in this video.
NHRA MOTORSPORTS MUSEUM PRESENTS: THE ALBERTSONS OLDS - YouTube
*2 of the 3 of my pals have passed on to the Big Drag Strip in the Sky.

 

R.D. Dodson, Fort Worth, Texas, Glenn Ward photo

 

Chuck Griffith, PVTA Special, Hot Rod photo

 

Johnson and Zeller, Fuller chassis, his first, along with Ivo's first ride. Fiberglass body. Cover of Hot Rod

 

Dragliner at Riverside, 1959. Doug Peterson photo

 

Vic King, San Gabriel, CA, at the NHRA Nationals.

 

Stroker's Car Club, from Iowa. Tragically, this car was involved in a fatal crash

 

Tets Ishimura, Itow Chassis, before it got a big inch Lincoln: (Doug Peterson photo)

 

I knew the driver Jim Studly. I remember my dads saying after he found out that Jim was killed that chassis wasn’t safe.

 

BTW , when the pictures were taken they were Nobles from Sioux City.

 

Here is a Houston Texas car I've shared a couple times. Built by my wife's uncle and his pal in a 1 car garage. Named the "Jimmie Green Special" Homemade chassis laid out on the garage floor.

 

The ingenuity was ingenious!

 

Anyone got a shot of Earl Canavaugh(sp?)'s President Lincoln?