Sioux City Iowa dragstrip pics vintage 1970

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Tim on here --- MCINK

IF there are pics taken he would of been the man to do it back in that era ..

I don't remember the car ,sorry

 

Here are more pics of Thunder Valley, Marion -South Dakota

about .. 68 / 69 or so

http://public.fotki.com/mastermodel...ntri/george-smith-aka-ea/drag-racing-from-ma/

 

Big Dad! great pictures! the last one, a guy with PLUM NUTS on his T shirt, by the Judy lilly car brings back some memories. I could have been standing there! the plum nuts car did a "show" bleach burn out!! the car was purple as were the 2 hotties with the bleach!!! when they bent over to pour the bleach on the track, one had PLUM on her panties the other NUTS!!! I was 16 years old! huge impression!! I always thought it took a couple of smart chicks so it didnt read NUTS PLUM!!!


MORE PLEASE!!!

 

nice photo find, Big Dad.

I received some Sioux City Dragway trophies last week in a swap..
They need a little restoration, but pretty cool, I think.

One is from the Strollers Car Club, that started the dragstrip.

 

Still looking for shots of dads yellow 70 F85 named Compulsion...................note my sig

 

Cool pics !!

 

Wow. I am a little late to the party, but there are some great pics here!

 

Dad ID'd this car as Warren Peterson from Brookings. The name comes from four owners. Peterson, Peasel and two others that dad does not remember. The car was really a C/MP but for various reasons tried to run D/MP that day They didn't due to protest.

 

Bump...Newbie here and I am looking for any pictures of a 68 Chevelle SS, butternut yellow.

The gentlemen that bought it orginally bought it was Don Breem or Breen...not sure which one. He bought the car brand new and only drove it at Marion for the first 3 or 4 years of the cars life. My uncle now owns the car, and I would like to suprise him with some old pics of the car at the drag strip if possible....

Thanks in advance!!

B

 

My dad was a belonged to the Nobles car club Sioux city. Here are some pics I have ,and some I found on the web.I posted these on another thread earlier today hoping to get some more info.I have been up and down that strip many time in the push car driven by my mom.I have a few more pics that I need to find.Cool stuff.

 

I was back in the midwest a couple of weeks ago, and I went to the Sioux Falls Automania, which was a downtown car show like a smaller version of Reno's Hot August Nights. What was there, but the Pizza Man 54 Vette! I remember seeing it run at the Sioux City drag strip when I was a teenager, and it made a huge impression on me. Sam Britt was at the Automania, and I got a chance to talk to him and get a little more of the history on the Vette.

I have some pictures I took of the Pizza man, but I'm having trouble putting them on here right now. I'll keep trying to get the pictures on; meanwhile, does anyone have any more pictures of Don Stephenson's Tension 57 Chevy that ran at the Sioux City strip

 

I can and will help you post pics

do you have them hosted anywhere ?

Like Photobucket, or a facebook account ?

makes it easier if you do

Or, hit "manage attachements"

then browse, find the pics, them load them here

they will show "smaller" and can only be 800x600

, pm me

I will help

 

Don lives in Arizona

You can find him at www.classracer.com most often

he would love to see old pics

 

A little off topic but there's heads up drags racing on water street this weekend as part of the rockin rods event if anyone feels like seeing the closest thing to legit racing in sxc you'll find these days

 

Big Dad-

You have a PM!

 

Howdy guys. I was wondering it anyone had any information about this car. My dad bought it off of a good friend of his in 1998. His friend bought it in Humboldt in 1984. It's a 57 Chevy Bel Air 2dr Hardtop. On the left side of the trunk is a pinstriped deal that says "Morning Sunshine" in red paint. On the right side it used to have a corny poem that said something like "Two scoops of love..." Dad doesn't remember the rest. It has a fiberglass flip front and a very wild plush pillow interior that looks like it came off of the people's couch in "That 70's Show". Dad said it used to have dual 4bbl carbs on it when his friend got it. It was sitting outside one day and an old man walked in to our shop and said that it used to have a wheelie bar. Dad's friend used to take it up to Des Moines when he owned it and a few people told him it used to be a show car up there. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all very much, Philroy.
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Here are some pics from the 80's

TVD

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10151093127627933&type=1

 

And now, we have some great video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhaFgZbftk4&feature=share

 

this one? (try not to stare at the lettering, you'll go blind)


or this one?

 

I was just going to add the above video to this thread, but looks like you already did (Brian?)...

Great stuff!

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I am prob in the crowd as a baby. I have a news clipping from that Thunder Valley meet!

 

Malcolm,
Is that the same Rocky Fey that was hooked up with Butch Hansen in SF running 360 sprint cars back a few years ago? Just curious because my father built Butch's engines. Haven't seen Rocky in several years.

Rick Ryan

 

Great video, really enjoyed it ..... being a Iowa drag racer.

 

Rick, that is the same Rocky Fey. He's still messing with cars, lives in LeMars, IA, and actually just bought my Uncle's Model A Roadster.

 

Malcolm, small world I guess. Love your roadster by the way. Hopefully I'll eventually get to see it in person.

 

The white "Tension" 57 is the one I'm talkin' about...red windows, white-painted chassis and underside and all. What a car...the stuff I dreamt about as a young guy, and still do. Thanks for posting the pictures!

 

Hi Nick

You must be refering to my facebook page

I have an alias there as well

My name is Daryl .. Middle name is Brian

I have relocated back to the frozen tundra and will at some point see you at local events I would guess

Race at the Valley most weekends in summer

 

Thanks for adding me on FB! That's actually where I first saw the video, on the Thunder Valley page. Definitely planning on making a few trips up there next spring/summer to catch the races and maybe participate.

 

Malcolm, you need to bring that roadster to TV when they're having one of the stock and super stock combo races. That way I can check it out in person.

Rick