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

How the hell does it get any better.
Says it all.

 

i'm quite fine with the photo credit in the pics you just posted and don't remember seeing any watermarks in this thread for quite a while.

 

Wow..know this car well, based out of London Ontario,Canada..ran a potvin front mount blower on a 265 chev motor...

I have the blower from this car..
thanks for posting.
Rick
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This orginally was the J&M Speed Shop car driven by John Mulligan in 1964.

 

Owner Mike Robertson just died. This was a very nice car. SBC on fuel ran low 8's at 175 plus.

 

Nice job, 'snort. 31247 looks like a Willie-wanna-be. I had the Tocco & Harper (31219) image from a '70 Hot Rod mag stapled to my bedroom wall as a kid...what dreams that car invoked.

 

Neat info,Rick.
Whatcha doing with the blower?
Great piece to have.

 

My bedroom wall was covered completly with drag racing centerfolds.
Well,maybe a couple of Playboy ones were there also.
That is just a killer shot on the Tocco/Harper.

 

THIS CAR IS SO COOL!
ANYMORE PICS OF IT?

 

Yeah, make sure your crap is locked up or bolted down, my ilk and I will be scouring your corner of the internet for pictures to loot and post on the HAMB. I'm not sure what your beef is, I'm not printing pictures out and selling them, just viewing them on the internet and I happen to think they look like crap with a bunch of watermarks or copyright marks on them.

 

This photo and the other one above sure reminds me of the old track up in Hardinsburg Ky. but I don't recognize these cars. (I hate it when this happens)
Lake City is just north of Knoxville. Any body kick start with some info please?
Tom S.

 

Intellectual property... haha thats funny. We aren't printing them, selling them or doing anything but sharing them, I dont even save them, just hotlink the image.

If your so worried about people sharing them dont post them up at all!

 

If you want a photo with out copy rights or water marks send the photographer money and he/she will be glad to sell you one. As for them not posting them that way, would you rather not be able to see the photo at all or see it with water marks??

I can see where these photographers are coming from, I post some of my stuff along for my enjoyment and the enjoyment of others. I also sometimes regrett posting them because they wind up being reposted with out credit to me or with someones name on the. Unfortunatly, most of my stuff is round track racing so it is on the sites for roundy-round stuff. I may want to market my stuff when I retire but don't want to totaly keep them all to myself now. By the way, it has been estimated that I have around 15,000 negatives.

All this being said, Keep on posting Muttley, I enjoy them very much!

 

Okay, I should stay away from this......but. Look this is all twisted around, celebrate the cars, drivers & crews. Photogs, THANKS for being there and capturing all these great images....but you weren't a participant, you and the spectators were observers.
So if you're gonna share your images, and identify them with a watermark, or your name in bold colors at least place them in a less conspicuous place, so that one's eye isn't focused on you rather than the subject!
I understand intellectual property, copyrights and all that, but I just wanna enjoy looking at images, not who owns them...flame on.

 

Never knew this was an A-arm car!

 

Was there a wheelbase length restriction on altereds back then? Because it just seems........

 

First, I'm not coming back directly at you but at the whole issue.

I am glad to get to witness the photos of others, I'm just stating that you shouldn't give them a hard time for wanting to get credit for the images and the time and effort they expanded in getting them. As far as being involve, try to stand between a fence and track for several hours with the tempatures in the '90s or near 100 or eating dust at a dirt track until mid night and then going home and making sure to write the same story three different ways for three racing papers and driving to the postoffice shipping center to meet dead line. As far as putting the water marks in a less conspicuous space, you then wind up with someone cropping it off when it is reposted.

As far as being involved, I helped with several drag cars back in the day that we had to push start by hand, we would take the plugs out of the engine and push the car back and forth across the shop in 4th gear to set the valves. I have crawled up under dirt cars in the red clay and changed quick change gears on a hot rear end, some times more than once before a race. I used to drive to the dragstrip and jack my car up and change the rear tires, run all day and then have to change the tires back to drive the 100 miles home.

Next time a "participant" wants to know if I have any old photos of them I guess I can tell them that since I wasn't "involved" that I didn't keep them.

'nuf of the soap box, lets look at old pictures!!!!!!!!!!

 

'nuf of the soap box, lets look at old pictures!!!!!!!!!!

Now there is something I can agree with.

 

Buck, I went to Mikios yesterday and he was hanging the picture I have been giving him. Seems he is finally taking pride in his accomplishments as a driver and car owner. Should see the smile on his face

 

Neat news,Mark.
Smiling is always good.

 

This is Tom Trisch's next altered and one jewel of a car. It came to Nashville with the change of ownership to Roger Grooms of engine remanufacturing/exchange/machine shop fame.
Roger originally built the 354 seen over on my screen name < in the pic of my dragster.
He reacquired this engine for Trisch's car to be run as an A/FA in pro comp. After I had quit racing, I still had the magneto, nitro nozzles, barrel valve and some other small parts and went to his shop one day and gave it all to him so I would not have any thing left to cause me to start racing again. Tom S. in Tn.