The Jalopy Journal
Big Al was owned and driven by Ray Alley. Ray owned the Engine Master's automotive in Garden Grove. His torque flight transmissions were in many...
Gene Conway aka Gene Ciambello was the owner of C&O transmissions in Los Angeles and many cars including us ran a C&O torqueflight. Yes, it is the...
Good shot of the Bloomin Bullet. Mark Bullet drove the car and it later had a life as the C&O firebird that was initially driven by Gene Modlin...
Yeah, Bristol was one of our favorite tracks. Here is a shot from 73 at Beeline
Yep, we races Bob Sullivan, Gene Snow, Sidney Foster and Danny Ongais for the Saturday night championship. Not too bad for a ALL chevy car. I...
Neat photo. If we would have known how valuable the push cars(the vette in the backround and the 56 Nomad to the right) would become. Today they...
I am not sure but sure would like to see it at a cacklefest. He mentioned that he would put a hemi in it :mad:
We began racing the Corvair in April 68 and campaigned it throughout the U.S mainly match racing. In 1969 we won the Southern States championships...
This made for a great picture but as they say "what goes up, must come down" and broke up the nose of the car. It was taken at Lions in 67 and we...
This was in my opinion one of the baddest altereds around. Dave Hough and his wife Linda continue to campaign a newer version. Their 17 year old...
I had the pleasure to hang out with the Pure Heaven crew on 29 Jan at West Palm Beach Dragway. They had a great show. Rat Trap, Pure Hell and the...
Does anybody recognize the young fella with his right hand in his pocket? If you said Jake Johnston, I think you would be correct. Good guy and...
I stand corrected. Man, getting old sucks. I guess it was Jim I was talking to at Bowling Green last year. Your blog says Gate job. any connection...
Here are some photos of the 60's Corvair and Vega. The one that shows us racing The Flying Dutchman shows we would race in any condition. I think...
I believe this car was restored by Ed Rahinski who ran the Maruader comet in the early 60's. I saw him at Bowling Green where he had Chrisman's 68...
The top left photo shows Lance Larsen and Mike D'Dario who were Marv Eldridge's and Rusty Deling's wrenches. Lance continues to be a respected...
Great to see a photo of Billy "The Kid" Scott. He dropped out of the scene around 67 or 68 I'm told to serve in the Army. His gas dragster was...
Great responses concerning "the nostalgia era". What I like about this site is that it is a reminiscence of the days when I could ask a fan to...
Hey, I took a picture of a picture taken by Larwrence Maxwell in 1966. It shows me at the hood of the first Blue Hell at Lions. Wish I still had...
SWCMAZ, the top left photo of Marv Eldridge's challenger shows a skinnier Lance Larsen and Mike D'Dario. These two guys were Marv's underpaid and...
This picture of Jungle's cars brings back memories. Claire Sanders and Jungle dominated many races. Many thought that after Ronnie put me in his...
Really great shot of Kirby's vet that later became Marv Eldridge's Fiberglass Trends car. This was one bitchin car maintained and wrenched by my...
Nice photo of Mike Burkart. We traveled to alot of the the same match races and often helped one another. He was one of the nicest guys you could...
Great shot of the "Canuck" Dale Armstrong is one of most talented and nicest guys around. I remember when Dale teamed up with Frank Pedregon in...
Here are a couple photos from the 2010 KCIR reunion. There are photos of Danny Miller, Bill Potsfield who recreated the Jim Kirby Dick Harrell 69...
I don't know if these photos were previously shown but here are a few.
Bucksnort, in 1970 Uncle Sam wanted me real bad. I was working on the car and Ronnie said "hey mike you have a letter from the selective service...
Hey Bucksnort, i noticed you live in Hudson Falls NY. I moved from Plattsburgh NY in 2005 because it was too cold and no good drag strips near me...
Gave me red STP jacket to a fan that resembled me and Grissly was so drunk he follwed him
Thanks Ol'bucsnort, I remeber a race at nashville on July 4th 69 which was a 8 car round robin. I knew we were in trouble when the bridge to the...
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