History Drag cars in motion.......picture thread.

Can't do it here Mark. Don't want to get heat for posting an O/T car. There's a picture of Jack with Maryann and the Halibrands in the "Jack's Cars" album on my profile page.

 

Now thats different...

 

Green Valley Raceway 1969, which lies under a subdivision about a mile from here. Up until about about 2005 the cross-track bridge and some of the original asphalt was still there

 

Thanks for the pics SkyWolf! That Bantam is way COOL!!

 

Definately different but its BadAss. Seems like I saw a feature of this car in a Magazine before.

 

Now this is crazy...



Still exists

 

Saw a great video on the 1962 Winternationals.Done for the Cal.Dodge dealers.Never saw it before.
It is posted on www.dragracingonline in news,notes and nonsense section.
Killer stuff.Pomona has changed over the years.
The 1974 clip on afterwards also cool,albeit too new for here.

 

This car was originally a Chevy powered fueler that body shop owner George Reece bought and then mounted this stretched Vette shell. Nitro fed SBC managed low 8's at about 170 plus. At one point (1971) Reece owned three Corvette funnies-this thing and two conventional models. He would offer one or all three to appear at tracks for match racing, exhibition runs or serve as apart of a part of booked in show. Another example of an era long since passed.

 

Any more pics, or information on this car?

Thanks,
Dave

 

Looks like Willis Ragsdale from the Houston area.

 

Wish I was smart enough to have bought a camera back then. Shots like this are priceless today! Tom S.

 

Do you remember how much a half way good camera cost back in 1959?? I bought a 35mm Leica range finder camera used with a light meter and 50mm lens for $50. This was before the single lens reflex of today (SLR) was available. I still have it somewhere and it still works.

I don't remember how much film was. I think $2 and processing was about $4 for 20 pictures. It was pretty expensive to shoot a lot of pictures. Used to take a week to get the pictures back.

 

For those not familiar with Texas, Big Spring is WAY out in west TX.

 

Some days are better than others....

 

Love those old time haulers. Green Valley TX

 

Green Valley cafeteria, complete with shotguns for sale.

 

Errant "official" in the blue shirt is about to learn the benifits of good lateral foot movement else he is about to kiss the blower pulley on the altered.

 

Is the left tire REALLY flat or just distrorted? The cat in the blue shirt should be running in about a millionth of a second.

 

In retrospect, I wish I had not spent $$ on speed equipment and chrome, but rather blown it all on photographic equipment and Kodachrome.
I'd be much happier, not to mention much richer at this stage of life today, with nothing but fading memory to show for it all.

Anyone know what are some of the folks asking online for photos just like we are viewing right here? Some of these candid shots are simply stunning. And I still trip for long periods going back to study those Bill Trudy photo's.
Tom S. in Tn.

 

"In retrospect, I wish I had not spent $$ on speed equipment and chrome, but rather blown it all on photographic equipment and Kodachrome.
I'd be much happier, not to mention much richer at this stage of life today, with nothing but fading memory to show for it all."

Really? I think not. For it is through folks like you that 90% of those who monitor this thread are able to live vicariously through your "fading memories." Better to have spent a day on the track then a life time in the stands. I once socialized a bit with a group of guys who were true historians of midget/sprint car/USAC Indy racing from its infancy through the present. One of them wrote several books on the subject and was considered quite the historian. He would debate among others the highest level of minutae about who drove what, where when and how. One of the guys from this group was an actual driver who raced 20 years in USAC, IMCA, and outlaw circuits. In standing back watching a debate erupt between the "writer" and "racer" about a particular race from the 50's, I came to the aid of the former driver. I said, "While his recollection of the event maybe scewed, its because he was busy driving the race car, not sitting in the cheap seats like you (read writer) and the rest of us have always done" "Watching porno all day doesnt make you a ladies man" I concluded.

 

I'll second that. "Better a day on the track than a lifetime in the stands", so true.

 

Mag... I love you sig. haha

 

Awesome analogy.

 

Tom, tis better to be a has been than a never was.....

 

Kenny Koonce owned the Exxon station in DC, next to the infamous Watergate complex. "De Bugged" is lettered on the door. Anybody that was around then will understand the reference.