History Early drag racing photos

A great place to spend Saturday, at the beach;

 

Ken Crawford's Fueler .

 

It looks like "Lords" Tucson.

 

Kenz muffler jr fule

 

Beacon Auto Parts was (or maybe still could be) located in Newport Beach, California. "Billy the Kid" and younger brother George were sons of Charles Walter Scott, owner of Scotty's Muffler in San Bernardino. He was the wholesale-priced/no interest financing banker of my early adventures. Scotty was known in the family and by his close friends as "Wally". I called him Scotty and "sir". He was a caring, straight-forward, gentle influence in my late teens and valued dozens of years later.

Billy injured his back at Long Beach Lions when he smoked the brakes to slow down the roller starting apparatus. His chute did not open and the sand box had stiffened after a previous meet and launched the car.

 

Thanks, I knew you would know all about Billy, who also drove at Indy.