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

Attempting (and failing) to interpret the rules.
Only Smokey Yunick could do that!

 

Not only Smokey Yunick many did that, don’ ask me how I know . Has happened since beginning of any sport rules and is still going on today.

 

Sorry - honestly thought it was 1968.

 

Tony Cerulli's Disturbed Griffith at Dover...

 

Happy 92 Big!

 

On the door..."Roy" Cookie Cook??? I always thought it was Doug or did he have a brother who drove?

 

Yes, he's Doug's brother. he drove the Swindler II while Doug handled the Swindler A

 

Doug's brother's name was Ray. He drove the B Gas car and Doug drove Swindler A.

 

I had the chance to buy a nice, rust free, 1962 Dodge dart two door the same as this one from Scott Jezak of Rhode Island, many years ago. I wish that I had bought it, and Scott wishes that he had never sold it.

 

one of my all time favorite MoPars. Love the design, especially tje front end.

 

I loved the short ram 413 Max wedge engine that was available in those, like one in your picture. Dead give away is that hood that came on some of them and that oil pan hanging down.

 

Ernie Alvarado's Ernie's Camera Shop car, first Fuller 3-point roll bar dragster. Here it was on gas, but Ernie later ran it on nitro. It has been reconstructed after Bill Alexander crashed it at San Fernando. Manual Maldonado photo

 

Wilton & Doss, BB Chevy, Mike Mitchell photo. Leon "Bubby" restored the car.

 

Bill Sanders started this RED with a Cragar headed Ford 4, later a flathead V-8, and finally an Olds.

 

Fred Waterworth's Bantam bodied competition coupe at Santa Ana, ran both an Olds and a Chrysler, this is the latter engine. Life Magazine photo