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Gene Altizer in the former Jungle Jim Leiberman Nova at Cecil County. This is the car that won the NHRA Winternationals with Clare Sanders at the wheel. Altizer ran it in the east coast fuel funny car circuit in the early 70's.....big block Chevy UNBLOWN on 100% nitro.

 

Holy shit!Thats ALL KINDS of history right there...!
Thanks for sharing that one!

Scott


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There's more...another shot from Cecil County.

This car, with Altizer at the helm, qualified for the AA/FC 16 car field at the Super Stock Nationals at York US30 Dragway in York, Pennsylvania. 15 Blown Nitro Funny Cars and 1 UNBLOWN nitro car with a big block Chevy against all the Blown Hemi Chryslers. He won several rounds, much to the dismay of the Blown guys, before finally losing to the Candies and Hughes Funny Car from Louisiana. Giant killer for sure!!

 

Awesome

 

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Thanks. Any pics help

 

That is an awesome story...


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late '66, the white chevy II that replaced his wrecked red car...

 

Thanks to everyone who has posted on this thread, this was the first strip that I competed on (very small time in 1966) and seeing the pictures so far have brought back some good memories .

 

Great pics!! AHHH the S&S TEAM. Ilive not to far from where Charlie hill and pork zartman had there shop. They ran the DIRTY THIRTY, and later THE FILTHY 40 WILLYS. The 40 was a very fast car, and used to pull the front wheels in all 4 gears. AWSOME!!

 

Awesome

 

Here are a couple of links of my friend John Durand's photos. They are all for sale so give him a ring if you'd like.
http://jdurand.smugmug.com/Drag-Race-Archives/Don-Garlits-August-1964-Cecil/366718_7qBSqD

http://jdurand.smugmug.com/Drag-Race-Archives/Cecil-County-1964/554968_sQwscs

 

1965 Cecil County NHRA Record Meet. Gene Moody from Bloomfield, Indiana traveled all the way to Maryland and set the D/Gas Record at 11.90

Moody and his 1955 Chevy was the Class Champion at the NHRA NATIONALS in Indy in 1963-1964-1966-1967 and was the NHRA World Champion in Street Eliminator in 1965. The car was found in the Arizona desert and has been restored. It is currently owned by Peter Broadribb of Kingman, Arizona.

 

On the cover of Drag Nows Bill Lawton takes the Tasca Ford Thunderbolt and crew down to Cecil County to take on Bill Jenkins, they didn't fair to good

 

Back in 1966/1967, does anyone know what the national record was for C/Gas and also for D/ Modified /Production ?? Thanks guys....

 

1964

 

Cool

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Good photos. Was a good time to Drag race. Thanks

 

Wondering if anyone here remembers a '37 Chevy coupe named "The Invader"? It ran out of Imperial Motors from Wilmington Delaware. It was owned and driven by Buck Hollingsworth. I have been trying to track down info on this car as there is a strong likelihood that the '37 coupe I have owned for 36 years could be this car.
Any help in determining this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bob

 

Here are some pics i took from the stands at a ford vs chevy funny car show in 1969

 

Great pics. I especially like that Cougar towing a Cougar shot.

 

Thats Dyno Don Nicholson, and Bruce Larsons camaro towing his Camaro

 

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I took these at at a ford vs chevy funny car show in 1968