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

Works for short w/b diggers too.

 

Please tell him Thanks!!!!!! Those are Very Cool!!!

 

you should have seen the looks I used to get when I would show up to a track with my son's jr dragster in the bed of the truck and the roadster on the open trailer behind the truck. I should have a picture or 2 around here someplace. The real pain was that I could not unload the roadster with the Jr in the back of the truck as I have to tilt the trailer top to get the roadster off the trailer. I would have to disconnect the trailer, unload the junior, hook the trailer up and unload the roadster and reverse the whole process to load up. I still have a couple of scars on the hood scoop of the roadster from the nose of the junior after going through some pretty serious dips.

 

66 Dragfest Castlereagh

 

This is way more than a picture thread, It's HISTORY. Thanks Mark for starting it, all who have contributed, and Ryan for the place to post it!

 

Adelaide International Raceway, Australia, either 80 or 81.

 

Castlereagh International Dragway Sydney, Australia 1978

 

Re the post on the 1966 Australian Drag Fest I think it is Ron Colson in the spectator lane and Bob Keith in the lane closest to the camera. Colson drove his Supercharged S/B Chev gas Dragster sponsored by Nickey Chevrolet and Keith drove his Courtsey Chevrolet sponsored Supercharged B/B Chev rail. A question for trivia buffs. Was the Bob Keith rail the first Blown big block Chevrolet, the car arrived in Australia with the then brand new engine in it. The rail had been run prior to coming to Australia with a Hemi Chrysler. Bob Keith is said to have had to get the inlet manifold and some other parts custom made to enable him to run the B/B Chev power plant. The engine was a stroked 396 out to 500 cubic inches.

 

Pennelville, New York, 1954
All dirt drag strip...

 

Were those shots from Drag City in Springfield? Killer stuff! Hell, man, there were dirt strips all over back then, there were three here(not all at once!) until '68 when the black top was laid down.

 

Nothing cooler than a digger in the back of a pickup.....
Awesome pics fellas....

 

The Mondello-Matsubara Fiat altered at LIONS Drag Strip. Larry Sutton, the LIONS starter is on the left.
Photo taken by super-pro lensman Steve Reyes

 

Anyone remember Mahogany Rush? Seems I had seen some photos of an older car with his logo on it.

 

Irwindale, 1966

 

Irwindale, 1966

 

"The Flying Dutchman" Mopar on the left up against Les Richey's SOHC Mustang. Les would lose his life in this Mustang in a crash at Fontana not long after this photo was taken.
Iwindale, 1966

 

The Stone, Woods and Cook Willys gasser in it's black livery at Irwindale, 1966

 

My Dad's A-Fuel Altered @ Fremont

 

A drag car in motion....very slow motion, and going the wrong way!

 

The superfast Kohler Brothers "King Kong" Anglia gasser.
Irwindale

 

Has there been anything posted of Frank Pedregon Sr.?

 

The ultra-clean Pearce Trucking Thames gasser at LIONS, 1965

 

Mazooma...do you have any Fred Teixeira Willys photos?

 

RS, I don't recognize that name...any car name or sponsor????

 

Check out the very first photo of this thread.

 

No sir, I'd remember that one, sorry........

 

Hey Skip, Here Bob Beezer again, this time at our home track......

Anything to keep the rain away.......

 

Mazooma, GREAT SHOTS! I haven't seen many pictures of Haydens Comet. Thanks for sharing.