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The part in there that has the crashed rail, that was Art Malones #2 car as he had both cars there and had to race against each other so got Val...
Big Jim Dunn at Indy '64 (Starlite III nosepiece visible under trailer in backround)
Frank Pedregon, Cruz and Tonys dad. RIP Flaming Frank
Starlite III, probably Indy '64. Chuck Griffith standing in back of guy in white hat and Steve Earhart in cockpit. Thanks Muttley for all this...
Thanks a million for those shots Zoom, really appreciate all of them.
Chuck Branham Jan '63 blew the engine, massive fire and didn't have firesuit on. Took 6 weeks but the burns got him. RIP miss you
I know Chuck Griffith went thru a few of them also in the Starlite AA/FD. They later figured out how to modify the mains to 392 Hemi size and...
Thank you, The top shot and the bottom shot were the Starlite IV, owned by John Moxley and driven by Chuck. Sponsor was still PVTA. It didn't run...
Hey Muttley, do you have any shots of the PVTA Starlite dragster. The Starlite II was a Dragmaster Dart chassis with blown Hemi. The III was...
Yeah I remember the Jalopy races on KTLA channel 5 and "Whoa Nellie" Dick Lane. Must've been back in mid '50s, guys even ran in the rain
Long time starter and friend of mine Ron Venturini keeping an eye on it
'61 Winternationals, I was 15 and my brother and I talked Dad into dropping us off at entrance. Sat on those telephone poles they had laid down...
Hey there from Windsor, CO
April '64- Boot camp San Diego CO 236 (delayed entry so I could work WinterNats and go to Bakersfield) Aug '64- EN A School Nov '64- USS McMorris...
My bad, sorry about previous post on this subject. Happened at Pomona after I left for boot camp. Wasn't the Spaghetti Benders car, with Rick...
If I remember correctly, Jack was injured, the incident, prior to '64. He was driving the Super Comet in '64. Plus all the rails had 'Christman...
Quite possibly Les Richeys car as the Dart was Ron Roots and Les did the enginework and tuning for it
Get well quick Art
I do Dean, scary ain't it?
A lot of the local businesses advertised in our yearbooks, I graduated in '63 from Bonita High in la Verne Ca.
My mom grew up in the Willowbrook area and was 8 when this happened, said Long Beach High School was almost competely collapsed
My Dad said you could ride anywhere you wanted for a nickel in the '30s
That was the Les I remember, hard working, dedicated and funny as hell. here I was, 16 yr old kid and used to go down to his shop just hang around...
I know this is about a year after your post, knew Ron Root pretty well, a LT. in Pomona Police Dept. As a side, he won Winternats street elim....
Can't remember what size the rear tires were, but I was helping Gas one night down at Lions and he had me take off the lugnuts, pull tire out as...
I don't remember it, but I wasn't working at the strip after mar '64 when I enlisted in the Navy. 2 guys that were there after I left might know...
I've got a quick question for some of the So Cal researchers. When I was a kid growing up in San Dimas Ca. the principal at the elementary school...
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park was owned by the Stanley Bros. They used their steamers to pick up guests at the train station in Loveland and...
Hey there, name's Jay, grew up in SoCal (San Dimas) worked at Pomona from summer of '61 until I joined Navy in early '64. Started out hanging all...
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