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

Met Mike at York few years back.Nice guy,was he partners with someone else?Car looks great.Did he ever get the as run grille from the guy who wanted a fortune for it?


That Sneaky Pete?

Nice shot of S&M.For those that follow the altered wheelbase thread..No blue headlights or park lights.Everybody has been coming up with killer shots.Thanks to you all.

 

Yup.

 

Here's Pete Robinson on the track. Check out the chassis flex. The car weighed nothing. The second photo is, I believe, Pete's SOHC car the following season.

Didn't Pete's Chevy win TE at the Nationals (on gas) the last year of the NHRA fuel ban? '63?

 

Tom,nice shot of the 1966 Kingfish in it's 'transitional' stage from pre-stretched to stretched.Thanks. Dennis Doubleday

 

Thats a great shot of chassis flex.Pete did win the Nats,I think you are right in '63

 

I received some pictures from Jim Brissette to add to the reference file I have for my recreation of his 1964 Woody Gilmore Fueler. This Fueler was the 5th chassis out of Woody's Race Car Engineering. Woody and first employee, Paul Sutherland built it. Wild Bill Alexander was driving. Doug Kruse built the shorty body and fuel tank. Jim Brissette wanted the motor located as close to the rearend as possible at 20 1/2'', motorplate to the centerline of the rearend. June 28, 1964 at Pomona, it ran it's full pass at 7.87 @ 194.80 mph with a 331 engine. Charles Strutt photos

 

Brissette & Alexander at Lions, 7-12-1964, 7.94 @ 198.52

 

On 8-9-1964 at San Fernando, Wild Bill Alexander puts Brissette's Fueler into the 200 mph zone for the first time with a 7.86 @ 202.24 with a 331 hemi with Sharp Aluminum heads. The car weighed in at 1150 lbs

 

Jimmy Brissette. One of the nicest men I have ever known. Sadly, the one thing we share is the fact that El Mirage nearly killed both of us.

 

When this car orginally ran in So-Cal it competed as a modified fuel roadster. Its owner, whose name escapes me at the moment, moved to the Mid West, wherein he switched to gas and ran NHRA AA/Comp class. It has a Garlits chassis

 

The car is 'stripduster' driven by 'king' Harold Bull it used a 950cc A series engine blown on Nitro, it ran in the mid tens ! not to shabby for a little 4 pot


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8-22-1964, Fontana aka Drag City drops the HAMMER. 7.50 @ 202.24 with a 354 BOMB

 

9-5-1964, Brissette and Alexander bombs the record book AGAIN ! 7.56 @ 205.46

 

Was it a fluke ET & speed ? NO ! 7.58 @ 205.94, 7.69 @ 200.44 and 7,75 @ 201.78 on 9-12-1964 at Fontana

 

Bucksnot...............The SWC Willys was owned by Joe Trillo back in the 70s. He had bought it for I think 600 bucks and turned it into a street rod. It was then sold to a good friend of his, Mike Wales from New Jersey. A few years ago Joe and Mike decided to restore the car back to its drag roots. All the parts and pieces were found and they put it back together..........but not over done.
Joe had told me that the man that still owns the original grill wanted over 20 grand to buy it. Photo from Gasser Wars.

 

9-22-1964, Wild Bill Alexander smokes them at 7.62 @ 205.80 at Fontana in Brissette's " Back Motor Car " with a 3.08 gear

 

Brissette & Alexander BOMB, B & W 9-22-1964, Color 2-5-2010

 

Talk about your noodle cars,man this thing has got to be seriously flexi with no diagonals (in the vertical plane) in the exposed portion of the chassis.

 

Liechen and Drake ran some good numbers too with a 331" car. Crower Cams pimmped off their times to serve as a evidence that their bump sticks could create a giant killer.

 

Here's another shot of the car.

 

Does anybody out there know if there is any video of the burndown between Don Garlits and Steve Carbone at the 71 nationals in existence as I have been looking on the net without any success for the past month

 

shot yesterday at Thunder Valley Dragways, Marion, SD

hardly fits the HAMB, but wanted to share...
hopefully someone will find them interesting...

 

Here's a couple images I scanned from old magazine cut-outs I had saved over the years.......Coonrod and the Hrudka Bros. Willys panel van.

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The bottom picture is not Pete Robinson, it is Scott Wilson's "Time Machine" from Canada. Both cars were built by Woody Gilmore's Race Car Engineering.

 

thems good ones!!