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

A pair of S/S launching off the start line. 426 Plymouth vs 409 Chevy.

 

Couldn't miss Bob, with those patent leather candy apple red boots.
R.I.P. Mike, talented guy.

 

Raisin City Fresno...any ID on the cars?


*Edit*
I'm told Jim Herbert, Berry Brothers, Stark/Dwight Salisbury in the Syndicate II and finally Kenny Safford in Gotelli's Speed Shop near lane to far.

 

I NEED a body just like this one---

 

Rick Stewart Riverside...


Beacon Auto Parts, Rick far right:

 

IIRC, I met Rick many years ago at the Great Woods auto flea market. The body in the picture is a hand made fibergl*** body popped off of a model A tudor. It was painted orange.

 

San Fernando Drag Strip, sometimes called "The Pond". How it got that nick-name, I never found out...

 

Hello,
A couple of years ago, I was doing some research on an early 1939 Willys Coupe. The results were from 1955 and it was surprising that it showed a guy in a lower cl*** as a trophy winner that same day.

Note: The early 1955 cl*** winner in a different cl*** than we all are accustomed to seeing is for D/Gas. An Oldsmobile powered street Gas Coupe/ Sedan is none other than **** Harriman.

“The cool part was about the time **** Harriman was "IT," when it came to running at San Fernando. (Harriman ran a ’50 Olds G***er at San Fernando Drag Strip. Harriman was the guy who named San Fernando “the Pond” by saying, “Rather than run other big dragstrips he’d prefer to be a big fish in a small pond,” and Pond stuck.) “He ran a B&M Hydro in his ’50 G***er Olds. We’d sit on the dirt mound and watch him race. Harriman never had a front bumper on his Olds, for the weight I guess.”

Jnaki

So, I am ***uming the name for the San Fernando Dragstrip was then called "The pond" until it closed.

 

Hang in there just another half a second...................

 

Dave Uyehara Fremont 1970, Bill Robertson photo...head down on the burnout keeping those visors clean!

 

Dave Uyehara/Max Williams Instant Karma at Lions...

 

Notes say Bucher-Szabo-Gillespie at Dover '68...

 

Dave Zeuchel/Tommy Ivo Enderle showerhead...

 

Howard Cams Special Bob Downey...

 

Ansen fuel altered...

Super Rat...versus Wild Willie...

Stone/Ingberg/Ferraro versus Pure Hell...

Frontuto & Miles Black Magic...

Valley Steel at OCIR...




Stone T at Irwindale...


Walt's Puffer Too...

Bowers/Paris/Reed Mother-In-Law at The Patch...


Bad Habit...

Bad News...

 

Ivo Santa Ana circa 1957...

 

Jim & Allison Lee with Ed Pink...