Coolest Picture on the HAMB

when I was young (a long time ago) I used to hear of motors being souped up...is this what they were talking about?

 

I wonder if the photographer was aware of the honor and privilege that was his simply being in the room with all those great people.

 

Yeah, the car is just immaterial compared to the legendary folks assembled. I should have included the link to the original article in my post.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=22862

 

Big John, Wayne Arteaga, Skip Hess, Barb Hamilton, K. S. Pittman, Bones Balogh, Junior Thompson, Ohio George Montgomery. Taken on the starting line, 2002 Gasser Gathering, Thompson Ohio.

 

While one of my cars is not the coolest, or the picture, just thought I’d share. Thought I would try to get in the TriFive calendar one year. This car was a 15 footer and I never would have made it. A storm was coming and I thought I’d leave it outside and get pics in the morning. Well, it snowed like crazy that night. This was the way it looked at 7am. I went out the garage door and took picture before plows came, sent it in, and lo and behold, December!

 

best pic so far!

 

I scrolled the whole 19 pages as I just discovered this today. Pictures of folks are historically important, but not what I come to the hamb for. I have this one saved as I think it is cool, not the best or most professional, I have others saved for that. Great time of year, great traditional car, nice presentation, lots of coolness. When I saw this picture on the hamb I knew my time was being well spent.

 

Thanks for the link.

 

1959 Lion's Dragstrip

Kenny Lindley FED with Don Hampton driving

Hello,

We were at Lion’s Dragstrip in 1959 almost every Saturday. Between rounds of our 58 Impala racing in the eliminations and timed runs, I was fortunate to be at Lion’s Dragstrip trying to be a teenage, professional photographer with my dinky 16 mm movie camera.

I found many photo/film locations for a different look in my films. My Pit pass allowed me to wander around the pits and that included going through the class lane gates and ending up in the staging area. It also allowed me to to the ‘Pits/Tower side seating area and the actual orange tower.

Every weekend after we got the film developed, our friends came over to our house for a nice lunch/snacks/drinks for a few minutes of drag racing films from the previous week. Then a few other reels from previous races was also shown. It was a “thing” to do for the hot rod/cruising teenagers. Actually, they just wanted to eat my mom’s fabulous food, which included teriyaki steak and/or teriyaki chicken sandwiches, freshly made sushi and drinks galore.

Despite my mom not like drag racing, she liked it that our friends came over to hang out at the weekly event. I had the movie projector set up and a large pull down screen for clarity.

Jnaki

One of my favorite films was of Kenny Lindley/Don Hampton’s gas dragster called “Miss Fire.” It was one of the only streamlined body on a Potvin style supercharged Hemi motor.
Thanks @Dean Lowe
I had taken plenty of straight on drag racing films that showed racing against some of the top racers in So Cal. A lot of individual timed runs and it all was edited by a tireless teenager, putting together the next weeks movie showing for our friends.

Here is one of the most interesting films that I took when I was standing in the Pit area, “Class Lanes” road. “Here’s coming at you…” Someone mentioned that Don Hampton turned the wheel at the last minute. YES, but despite the fixed lens on the movie camera, I stayed put. Needless to say, it was loud, scary, and one of the more exciting things that I did in the filming.

1959 Lion’s Dragstrip Class Lanes “fire up lane” to the staging area/starting line.


One of my favorite films from this era with the Miss Fire FED from Lindley/Hampton was a compilation version with the sound of the actual Miss Fire FED racing at the 1959 Detroit Nationals. The Summer of 1959 I filmed the run in August. Several weeks later, the recording took place in September in Detroit. Then, in November of 1959, my brother and I went to Wallach’s Music City in Lakewood to listen in the booths, and then buy the LP album. (Hot Rods and Dragsters in hi-fi stereo)

SOUND
Don Hampton ORIGINAL SOUND from 1959.

For all of the early photographers with their high end cameras and the big name film companies doing their own filming, where are the films processed for today’s hungry audience? For you early drag racing folks, here is the Miss Fire FED racing against some of the best racers on the Westcoast during this time period, from a 16mm color point and shoot movie camera. The Kenny Lindley/Don Hampton Miss Fire vs. the top So Cal racers.

Kenny Lindley/Don Hampton Miss Fire Total 1958-60

 

I thought I would add another one that I found pretty cool, not my picture, not my project but cool.

 

I have another cool picture from someone’s (garage2small) roadtrip.

 

Perfect!

 

2016, Squeak Bell talking to Pete McCleod at Squeaks place in Bakersfield.
Orange crate showed up that evening as well.

 

I was there that night.

 

Way cool @Marty Strode !
That was indeed, a great gathering that evening !

 

Let's go back to the early days..... Kinda like the first photo in this thread...

 

Unshakable cool.

 

This one works for me too, in the lifestyle category. Not my picture, not my car, not my friends, but looks like they are having a good time.

 

So forgive my ignorance what make or model buick is this? Can I replicate the tail lights on a 60 el camino? This is a great look.

 

A 12 year old kid reads and dreams about hot rods, years later he builds hot rods and actually knows the guy he was reading about in that issue of Hot Rod magazine. HRP

Photoshop by the moose.

 

It was Dennis DeLucca
That is Doyle Gammel's 32 ford

 

I thought this would have been answered by now, '59, 4 dr ht, possibly a La Sabre like this one.

 

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