More Insanity from Fremont! Oct 1971

Mart Higginbotham smokes the tires with his "Drag-On" Vega funny car in a run against Tom Hoover in the "White Bear Dodge" funny car.

 

Very cool!

 

Thank you so much for the pics. Reminds me why I don't go to the NHRA races any more.

Gotta love the ingenuity and all the different looks to the cars. Unlike the "spec" racing today!


jerry

 

Awesome pictures, Thank you!

 

Cool pictures. Thanks. I work right next the field were the strip was and everyday I have to watch the near by shopping mall creep closer to where it was. It is nice to see it back in its glory days. Wish I was older to have seen it in person.

 

Gotta love the ingenuity and all the different looks to the cars. Unlike the "spec" racing today!


I agree!

 

Just wait til I post pics of Nuke's 'Cheetah' drag car. Guarantee there are very few people on here who have seen anything like it.

 

You're shittin' us, right!?! I've been pissed about that from the start, now I want to puke.
If that's not taking a dump on "tradition" I don't know what is!!!!!!!
Americans will apparently do anything for the all-mighty dollar.

 

More pictures please these are great

 

OOOH lordy. There goes the neighborhood. LOL

 

very cool, i grew up at that strip. Makes me sick that they close it and it sits for 20 years then the put up another strip mall.

Thanks

 

very cool, i grew up at that strip. Makes me sick that they close it and it sits for 20 years then the put up another strip mall.

Very sad. I just learned that another track I visited in 1970 or 1971 closed in 1992 to make room for housing development.

 

I think viewing these pictures makes some of us feel good and bad at the time.

 

The yellow Bantam altered was the ex Pure Hell of Guasco and Emery. They sold the wreckage to this guy whose name escapes me at the moment. It was run on gas by that time.

 

Thanx for the cool pix, love the two six shooter altereds running. ~sololobo~

 

Many thanks for the great pics. I spent many years with AHRA and Fremont has provided some of the top memorable events.

 

Great shots!!! Thanks for posting!

 

Awesome pictures! Trips to Fremont are some of my fondest memories. The Sat nite jet car drags were unbelievable. I am proud to say that I did race my moms Bel-Air on Wed nights at Fremont.

 

Love those Altered's! More please!

 

Yep, still got my original Fremont Drag Strip jacket purchased at the very last meet before it closed. Man, those were the days....

 

Drag racing at it's best. Awesome pictures!

 

What a ride!!http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k64/thexenolith/drags/fremont54.jpg

 

Was it the same Outcast as once campainged by Ron Vaught? He ran a RED Chevy jr fueler as early as 1969. It was a beautiful car.

 

"Hot Rod UFO" That's hilarious!