vintage drag photos NEVER BEFORE SEEN in louisiana.

ok guys, recently i received these vintage photos that range from 1957-1959 from my grandparents. they were taken by my grandfather and his friend at the only legal dragstrip outside of new orleans at the time. there are about 45 of them, and the ones that are blurry were taken that way. there is only one or two pics of cars actually draging, most are engine setups, and pics of paintjobs. i would love to learn more about these photos, and maybe find out where some of these cars are today, ill post them as i can load them onto my computer.

 

Thanks, look forward to more, these old photos are priceless, love the channeled deuce coupe...

 

here's the rest:

 

sorry i forgot to resize some of those.

 

here's the big ones:

 

Great time capsule, thanks for sharing!

 

here's some more:

 

and the last few:

 

here's the last one, ive never seen a 53 corvette drag car, but it does make sense. fibergl*** lift-off body, easy to work on, probably cheap around that time too.

 

pretty cool old photos

 

Very cool post, thanks

 

cool part is, my grand mother says she might have a bunch more somewhere.

 

Would that have been the LaPlace Dragway, West of New Orleans on Airline Hwy/US 61?

Bob

 

cool pics ..... Thanks for posting.

 

Corvettes were never cheap.

 

yep, that's the one.

 

Cool! I used to race there around 1965-'66.

Bob

 

GREAT picture's !!!! Thank's for posting.

 

Very early use of Duct tape!

 

TE-440 with blower up front,,very nice

 

56 Ford with a McCulloch super charger

 

Now that's some history! Thanks for posting the pictures.

 

laplace dragway i used to race there in 1965-67 lots of old memories

 

Your grandfather had a good eye. These pics are very cool.

 

Cool photos, thanks.

Normally I would ask this in a PM, but this seems too cool . . .
can we ***ume you are 15 years old and you think music went downhill when Buddy Holly died?

 

I don't recognize most of these cars, but this dragster might be owned/driven by "Q-Ball" Wales, one of the great LA drivers, sadly later killed in a top fuel car:

 

Don't recognize any of the cars, my first trip to LaPlace Dragway was in 1959 or 60. Had lots of fun times there.

 

Don't mean to hijack your thread, but here's more New Orleans/Laplace Dragway photos for the Louisiana guys:
http://www.wediditforlove.com/Cupit_Cunningham.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bykyak/sets/72157623160463384/show/with/4255048914/

Bob

 

Bob, thanks, that brought back a lot of memories.

 

wowwowwow.....thanks for sharing.....