The Jalopy Journal
Yes, Jack Wyatt bought that car from Dick Titsworth. I do not think Jack is old enough to have raced at Des Moines Dragway. The housing...
The Ford Thunderbolt above my above post was first owned by Carl Moyer and came with an automatic. It was a slug and Moyer changed it to a 4...
Justin, the blue Falcon was owned by Hubert Platt who lived in Georgia, but was sponsored by Dick Walters Ford in West Des Moines. Hubert also had...
The Anglia on the previous page sitting behind the Grove Brothers Willys at Des Moines Dragway was owned by the Atchison Brothers. Rick Atchison's...
The above car is Merrill Frost's, which in this photo is running a small block Ford. It later had a hemi and ran B/G. It had a drawing on the...
The Hustler car #231 belonged to Jim Farnsworth from Waterloo. He raced many cars ending up in a TA/FC. The green Toxic car is Vern Moats old...
The photo of the Grove Bros. Opel GT was taken by me at Cordova. I have a bunch of old photos on this computer for several tracks, e mail a list...
Carl Moyer sold the Eddyville track 4 or 5 years ago to Scott and Laura Gardner, who own Cordova Dragway and thier partner in Eddyville, Gerald...
There was only one drag strip at Des Moines. Another was in the planning stages, but zoning did it in. It was to be near Mitchellville. I was to a...
Mid America Motorplex is 1/8 mile. Iowa Speedway was/is an 1/8 mile on the pit straight. I hear they have stopped running drags in 2010 as the...
Tommy Johnson Jr. will be match racing Bruce Litton at Eddyville on July, 3. Both Top Fuel cars are owned by Bruce. Tommy Johnson Sr. will also be...
Ralph Muller (Big Foot) was a Central Iowa racer who later teamed up with a guy on an Opel GT called Friendship. I have a photo of that car. Moats...
Dave is still racing, with son Troy driving. They race a small block Ford powered Probe with the Ozark Mountain Super Shifter circuit. They were...
Last time I asked Vern about the street Anglia. his cousin had it and it was in sad shape. The cousin wanted a lot of money for it also. I think...
One of the founders of the Kahoka, MO drag strip, Jim Baker, is now writing a monthly column at Drag Racing Online. For anyone from the Iowa,...
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