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

This should be an easy win for one of them!

 

That really sucks.They had a better run than most strips,though.
Shaking my head that another is going away.

Ha Ha
Are you kidding?
Those are some of the best shots I've seen.
Full speed ahead !
We are all contributing to the best drag thread ever.
Kudos to Royalshifter for lighting the fire and Ryan for giving it the long run and all the contributors.

 

Having grown up, I mean aged, reading Drag CARtoons that was always one of my favorite cars. Thanks for posting.

Do you have any pictures of his Pete Millars Willys?

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

Redding, CA has been in operation since 1948

 

Stolen off the internet.
Larry T

 

Someone else posted with a pic or 2 about Manassas stating this was indeed the oldest dragstrip in continual operation in the US. Hi-tech beams to operate clocks means there must have been serious involvement in running this dragstrip.
Like already stated," Great photos " ! Tom S.

We can always pray for continued recession and a further decline in the housing industry. runaway urban sprawl developers

 

any info ? anyone ?? someone ???
Great photo though......... Tom S.

 

"hill" as in Union Hill? Tom S.

 

For what it's worth, the Ardmore, Oklahoma track also claims to be the oldest, continuely run track.
Larry T

 

OSHA would have to qualify this mans job as one of the most hazardous of all time, right behind ordinance disposal and just in front of test pilots, and not because of being hit or run over like you'd think, but rather being permanently maimed and disabled when someone who had serious $$$.00 on the race disagreed with what he saw.
Few people would walk the distance down track during trophy rounds, but there were always multiple finish line judges (witnesses) toward final rounds in money classes.
I've spent many hours on the big end.
Have I said GREAT SHOTS ? Tom S.

 

Thanks! I think that is one picture of it I already have. That ran as an Altered and not a Gasser, correct?

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

Yep, I'm pretty sure it was a center steer car, same as Fantasia.
Larry T

 

That is probably right. I think Old Dominion Speedway is the oldest continuously operating track East of the Mississippi. And it was owned and operated by the same family until just a few years ago...The Gore family. They are still involved and are the ones putting on the "60 Years of cars and Stars Reunion" this coming August.

 

This thread just keeps getting better by the day.

 

Art Ward's Assassination, ran really strong, when he turned to funny cars (with Roger Guzman), he sold the sports car to Peggy Pierce, who painted it orange and turned it sideways into the guard rail at Denver International

 

Mafia dragster new orleans.laplace la..

 

Im too young to remember that car (54) BUT there was a guy that hung around or ran an LSR deal & his name was Emil Grissotti...everyone called him "Griggs" & he was a neat old guy.He had a muffler shop,,,just thought of it,,Fullerton Muffler in So Cal.
The Gear Grinders car club had some of their meetings at the muffler shop in late 70s early 80s.
The name Emil on the truck jumped out at me.

 

what a great guy griggs was.

i'm rather certain that the truck is not his. i see there is a haysboro near nashville and one in calgary.

 

The Road Runners met at Grigg's shop in the 60's. Griggs was the SCTA engine inspector for record certificstion. Being a machinist, Dad always needled Griggs about checking bore and stroke with a 6" machinist's scale! Griggs said "hell, I'm a muffler man, what do I know about michrometers!!" Yep, things were much looser in the 60's.

 

Cordova Raceway Park also claims to be the oldes dragstrip in the country (or at least the town of Cordova claims it) but at 1956 it's not close. They also claim that their "World Series of Dragracing" is the oldest continous dragrace in the world. Spent a lot of Sundays there as a kid in the early '60s.

 

Bucksnort: Where did this pic come from?
This sure looks like a Tenn car from prehistoric days and I can not recall it. The 255 prefix even fits the area.
Any info at all ? Tom S.



addenum; had to come back and add, could this have been Curtis Goodwin's car, who operated Riverside Raceway ? This appears like it could have been the old original Riverside that was in the Sulphur Dell/Metro Center area in the 50's before it moved to Pegram alongside I-40 in the mid 60's.
I know I've seen this one....... Tom

 

Bucksnort: Where did this pic come from?
This sure looks like a Tenn car from prehistoric days and I can not recall it. The 255 prefix even fits the area


Sorry Tom
Grabbed it on the net.
Just says B/C-unknown photo

 

Nice coupe, Laplace about mid 60,s

 

Hey Rocky
Should look at map but is LaPlace and Baton Rouge where they held the Cajun Nats,the same track?

Like the Mafia rail.

 

YO BUCK , BATON ROUGE IS A LIL MORE WEST FROM LAPLACE I THINK ABOUT 30 MILES WHERE EVEVNTLY HOSTED THE CAJUN NATIONALS... IM LOOKING AT MY TICKET RIGHT NOW FROM 79 FOR THE 4TH ANNUAL CAJUN NATS. AND IT WAS AT STATE CAPITAL .BATON ROUGE.....LAPLACE WAS ABOUT 25 FROM MY HOUSE THEN... PS ALSO LOOKIN AT MY LAST IN 1990 79- 9 BUCKS FOR A PIT PASS IN 90 WAS 24 BUCKS TALK ABOUT INFLATION DIDNT SEE IT COMIN WHEN YOUR A KID !!!

 

Many years ago, there was a comp dragster owned by Curtis Goodwin who operated Riverside dragstrip west of Nashville. I last recall seeing it behind his T-Bird in west Nashville and I can't recall the year.
There was another single pipe rail dragster, just outside Nashville in Pegram that had an early Olds and front mounted GMC blower, named ' Daddy Rabbit '.

Somehow I do not think either of these is the car in Buck's photo, but I can't be certain about the first.
VW front end, airplane wing rib frame rails, Ford tub body........ somebody come to the rescue here........ Tom S.

 

Saaa mokin !