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

I don't care how you do it.........just keep doing it!
Thank you for keeping this history at the forefront.

 

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 fiberglass 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 class as a trophy winner that same day.

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

“The cool part was about the time Dick Harriman was "IT," when it came to running at San Fernando. (Harriman ran a ’50 Olds Gasser 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 Gasser 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 assuming 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...