Thats quiet a lot of history and very interesting. Its unreal that the original family still has the car after all these years. I would think it's one of the oldest do***ented drag cars i ever saw that still has a lot of the original parts and ch***is components. Thanks for posting the pictures and story.
That car was parked next to me this year at the HHR. It is a way cool storie and a part of drag racing history.
97, Thank you for noticing my late Grandfather's dragster and posting its link on www.cacklefest.com. Yes, I am a very fortunate grandson. Thanks Again.
Yep, I've had most of your pictures in my "spirit" album for awhile. I recall many of the early middie builds, and that was one that made the magazines. I remember when I first saw it (bodied & hemied, in a magazine) I thought it was another of the occasional butchered formula cars that showed up at the strips in those days. Only later learned it was a scratcher. I'm a Hoosier (Elkhart) by birth but was only six and gone in '52 (service brat), wouldn't be into cars for another couple years and in Texas. Wish I could've seen'er run, especially in the open flattie form.
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