Event Coverage 2008 HAMB Drag Pics

You're selling yourself short Chris.

I sold my original M&H Racemaster pie crusts to his brother last fall for gas money to get to the DOTD. Cool car, cool family.

 

WTF.... New kinda Motor mount Wouldn't catch me in that! Would'nt they flagg that at tech?

 

Great pics, thank you for taking the time to post. And, many thanks for the pics of our '57 Caddy !!!

 

That's legal. If you start barrel rolling down the track, you want the momentum to leave the car.

 

Don Garlits used them back in the 60's. They are on his hemi dragsters in his Muesum in Ocala

 

Standard equipment.. Get the "momentum Weight" away from the car and driver in a crash. Think of how many dragster crashes you have seen that the camera follows a flipping, rolling engine all the way down the track... menwhile the driver is unstrapping and cussing way back where it started.

J SHaw

 

Had the same set up in my sprint car. Lets the frame twist a bit as the engine is not tied in solid. Seems like the more the ch***is flexed the faster the car went. Put the car through a fierce bunch of flips and the engine remained in the car. It did move around quite a bit but it did stay in through a 7 roll series of tumbles>>>>.

 

unreal wish i could have been their

 

Dude I would love to see the Dragon Fly and Lump on the track at the same time....

 

Me too Tony.

 

There are so many threads with pictures I may post to several of them so some of the folks I personally talked to can find them.

Here are my pictures from the event!


http://www.crablogic.com/hamb08.htm

Thanks,
CRAB

 

excellent...thanks for sharing...

 

Ok, Makes sense now that the light has been shed. I guess I'm a little more used to thinkin you want the motor to stay in. Have'nt spent much time around rail cars though. Thanx, B

 

Talked to the guys with the LUMP at the hotel after they did their own little "cackelfest"!

That motor sounds as good as it looks. Roller cammed olds with a lot of compression. Not a non vintage piece on there that I could see.


jerry