Crazy slogans painted on the back of drag cars!

saw a good one on a ricer today. "money is just paper"

 

On the deck lid of my big block-powered Anglia: "10 lbs in a 5 lb. Box"

Kevin in Seattle

 

My father-in-law's '67 Dana Camaro had a sticker that said " CAUTION-HIGH SPEED KILLS! be slow and safe, drive a Ford."

I also thought the one J.J. put on the back of his roundy round was kinda funny "Let's be friends."

 

Never knew what happened to that car after John sold it but it's cool to know that that little bit of graffiti stayed with the car at least for a while. There were always several of those pace car Camaros racing in S/S but I think I would have recognized it instantly if I'd seen that lettering on the rear body panel. On the opposite side of the panel I think it said something about the Decatur Daily Democrat which was the local paper in the town where John's shop was.

I used to look for and photograph this kind of graffiti on the racers every year when I went to the US Nationals. It could range from amusing to mysterious to obscene. But as drag racing became more of a business and less of a sport, most of these slogans faded away. I guess a lot of racers lost their senses of imagination and humor.

 

As a impressionable lad , probably 30 odd years ago, I recall seeing a drag car being flat towed through town with " Bean Toad" and a small hand drawn toad, across the rear . I never forgot that and it just seemed appropriate as my H.A.M.B. I.D.

 

And I've always liked :
"whats RACE CAR spelled backwards? "

 

I remember one on the back of a little Bantam run by a father son team, "When I grow up I want to be a fuel altered!"


jerry

 

I bracket raced under my screen name "the Highlander" in a 72 Camaro. It was green, had my family tartan (plaid) in imported wool from Scotland in the seat cover center panel. Not wanting the normally trite sayings common on drag cars I chose "UP YOUR...KILT!"

 

Not a race car but when I was in HS back in '60-'70 one of the "older" guys had a ratty '56 Chevy Wagon with the back windows all blacked out. On the tail gate he had painted "Don't laugh, your daughter's in here."

 

Seen on aChevy powered Mustang drag car; Built Ford Tough With Bowtie Stuff

 

Lady driver... & a Lloyd

CC

 

My favorite, "Speed Kills, play it safe drive a Ford"

 

My Dad's '60 Falcon altered roadster had that old stand-by 'SNAFU' on the back of the roll bar.
'Fast as Hell 'cause that's where I'm headed'

 

I once saw on an old stock car in North Carolina....

Painted on the fender instead of the typical words " Driver, Mechanic Owner" this old racer had " Bender, Mender, Spender"...

 

There,s an awesome red Anglia gasser pullin' a wheelie almost on the rear bumper with Andy Cap downing a frothy beer,round him is scrolled "cheers to ya duck's".That will do for me.

 

"you've just been v-dubbed" on the back of a stock class vw.
"when the going gets tough, the tough get going"
"when the green flag/light drops, the BULLSHIT stops"
"speed costs money how! how fast you want to go?"
"rat powered"
"ford tough with chevy stuff"
"all go no show"
also"no show,all go"
"injection is nice but i'd rather be blown"
"blew by you"
"sneaky fast"
"quik shot"
"manic depression"
"drinkin gas and haulin ass"
"wrap your ass in fiberglass"
"zero to sixty in five minutes"
"when in doubt air it out"
"you just got beat with junk"
"mopar drivers have a longer stroke"
"if it has tits or tires it will cost you money"
i grew up at the drags, so i saw a few. thats just a sample.

 

I had a decal made for the rear of my pickup:"Old Farts ROCK!!!"

 

On the back of my old 69 camaro Roundy Round.
//CAUTION!! Frequently Sideways//
On the side-- RatRace Remedy
Another-- Just when You think You're winning the RatRace
Somebody shows-up with a Bigger Rat!!

 

My 10 second street legal mustang that I street raced over 15 years ago had "When the wheels begin to spin, the bullshit ends" on the back window. Due to the fact that when hanging out and trying to score a race everyone talked a lot of trash. Later on I owned a Jeep Wrangler and it had a bumper sticker that said "This may not be the Mayflower but your daughter sure came across on it" Got many dirty looks from parents with that one.

 

Bumper Sticker on the back of a dirty Mercedes the other day.
"God, Please make Me Rich 1 more time
I Promise I won't Piss it all away this time"

 

I might have to nick this one,Classic,Trouble is I.ve got a Ford so I might have to switch it round some

 

DONZILLA...thats TRUE she ran the Connecting Highway on Long Island in a Vette. I painted these slogan's for years in the sixties....best one> street car...B4I4Q-RU18? Another I liked on a A/S El Camino "Odd Job" (James Bond movie era)

 

This is my Dad's 58 vette he raced in the late 60's early 70's and on the back it reads "FOLLOW ME".He said that used make a few folks mad at the strip but he said "who cares i backed it up"!

 

Early FX days at Martin Dragway in Michigan, seen on the back of a Chevy II FX car..."Sure cure for hemi-roids".

Charlie

 

Original car was a S/S, not a 'funny' driven by Roger Lindamood, '62 or '63

 

I wasn't going to bring this one up but are we talking mid 60s white vette by any chance?If so she was seen for a while in Mass not far from here and nobody wants to believe me !

 

On the back of my truck, written in the dust...

"I wish my wife was this dirty"

She doesn't like it - wants me to make it say "still not as dirty as my wife"

 

A memorable one from a road trip - on the back of a late model (probably still in service) hearse in the early 80's, a bumper sticker on the left side that said 'Pass on this side, and that's your business...' and on the right side 'Pass on this side, and that's our business...'

My buddy (stickshift '69 Firebird, original 400 / 4 speed car), about 2 weeks after replacing the 472 stroker Pontiac (that kept breaking the crank) with a really hot 500 Caddy, he wrote on the left end of the back bumper (in sharpie) 'Got Wood?' and on the other end 'I do!!!!!'

An old farmer, every year that there was a Republican in office, would break out a fresh vintage 'fight tallgrass takeover' bumper sticker from the 60s. Inside midwest farmer joke, but funny if you get it.

My late wife always threatened to paint 'if you can beat me...' on the tailgate of her truck in high school, but her dad threatened to sell the truck if she did.
I never actually beat that truck, before or after I met her. And my car was reasonably quick for a high school beater.

And, of course, my fav... even though I can't find a picture of it ATM:
The trunklid of my boss's car says 'Where's that hot rod Lincoln?'. It's a 9-10 second normally aspirated '70 Coupe Deville. Back in the day, when the lettering was first done, it ran mid 11s in Dallas in street looking trim, complete with screwed on factory hubcaps.

The 'Streetwalker' lettering (late 60's BB Chevelle that the Flash sent home from South Eubank) was a really offensive inside joke in itself. Though not really decklid art, it's more than just a name - I've met the guy who owned it when it got named, who claims he wrote that on it because "Its black and it drips". No offense intended, I'm just quoting the source, word for word. He eventually sold it and retired from street racing when he couldn't seem to beat that "damn purple pimp-mobile" (the Caddy). I had to share the irony of the reason for the name / reason it was parked. Especially since they never met, but my boss's reason for painting the Flash that color in the first place was to make it look like a pimp-mobile

disclaimer: this is based on 30 year old memories of guys who probably breathed too much CO in their lives... I wasn't there. The stories of 2 guys who never actually talked to each other are too well matched for it to be too far off, though, and I first heard the Chevelle story through a 3rd party who was there at the time ('Got Wood?' Firebird guy above). History is fun, but oral history can be unreliable... You have to watch out for "the older I get, the better I was" syndrome...

 

This is going on the back of my gasser............. Umm......... If I can back it up!
'Only my car does it in 10 seconds'

(The car doing it in 10, Im hopefully that I can get a good 11)

Seen on a Chevy Hearse here at Summernats,
'Cremate-a-mate'