Features This is the Demonstration Dragster

This is awesome!! Working on one of these myself - love the way these dragsters looked and ran - wish I could see his push bar better in that one picture - wonder if he had a wheel under it?

 

Blanchard was one of the earliest drag racers and helped write the rules for the NHRA.

 

Bad*** little dragster! Clean and simple and I love the steel rear wheels.

 

tudor , when are we gonna see this at Reynolds......

 

Hopefully! It's taking me a while. Working on shifter and stuff now. Details details details

 

Did you buy that dragster from M***achusetts ?

 

Thanks for the article on Chuck Blanchard, we lost him a couple of years ago. My upholstery guy Jim Enger, learned his trade working for Chuck. I only met him once, as he was pretty much out of racing when I started.

 

Yep. Bought the rolling frame from Mr. Studley

 

Excellent article, and great to see Chuck Blanchard get kudos. I never met him, but the name I often heard when I started hanging out with the crowd in the pits at Woodburn. He was a legend around here.

 

I'm pretty sure that is the ch***is that's hanging from the rafters at AMOCAT in Puyallup, Wa.

It was the inspiration for the dragster that Marshall at Thun Field is working on.

 

Hey Marty. Jack Slawik here. I remember Chuck although I was a late comer to Oregon. !966. How's brother Jerry?

 

I thought it looked familiar. Good to see the project moving forward...

 

Can this frame be bought anywhere or are there plans for this kind of frame anywhere? I would be interested in running a SBC in something like this.-Thanks Bobby

 

Love a good rail job

 

This is the one we are working on

 

This had been "hanging" around for decades.... it ended up going to a new owner out west