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

The Logghe is beautiful, but what am I looking at here?

 

Looks like a GMC powered D Dragster. Maybe home made fuel injection.

 

My favorite Jr. fueler!

Pat

 

Before the Logghe car it was the ' Forsberg & Hubbard ' injected Chevy that put a few 92's on the trailer, so that was my fav of the un-blown rigs back in the early days

 

Junji, here is a photo I snapped of Sam's Cad Kurtis at Pomona in June of '59. The blown Cad was built by Big Bill Edwards. Sam began racing the car in about 1957. Sam ran this Kurtis until '63 when he bought a new Kurtis 500S Mark II. The new car ran a blown 460 Ford built by Ford guru Bonnis Hurd. The family lost the cars when Sam died. Seems while he was mayor of the City of Industry, he financed the cars with city funds. Both cars survive today just as Sam raced them, They have both been in the NHRA Museum

 

Yep you are right Dean , that sports racer was a neat piece

 

Dean, I think Jack and I went like 7.0's and 200 in your car...lol

 

Mark, you would have had to if I would have come home a caught you guys!!

 

Connie Kalitta driving Ford dragster ‘Bounty Hunter’ at Bristol International Dragway, Bristol, Tennessee, June 1965

 

Photos are from Thompson tommyd, I raced there in my 56 Chevy 1964-1966, that Drag Strip Sign wasn't there too long, I forgot all about it!

 

Thanks.

 

The late, great, Art Chrisman

 

From George Klass's site.
How COOL is this!!!???

 

Almost as cool as this!

 

More from Klass.
People pretty much tried everything!
Drags were so much more fun then, WAY slower, but WAY MORE FUN!!

 

A/GA - A/Gas Automatic? Never seen that class before; AHRA maybe?

 

I miss cars like this.

 

I know there is a dislike for funny cars here, but really they were nothing more than late model altereds, and just as much fun to watch! It was just a new idea, though 50's cars were rodded when they were new. Go figure.