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

sorry for late reply, I have a couple of the scale model cars stuck in limbo, that is work for winter daze. this is two of them I put on the drive way to make them look real. the one in the foreground is of my car ,I take great pains to make these cars look absolutely similar to the real cars. (disclaimer for missing detail).

kinda where it starts I machine the bell housings and make the differentials.


this is to be Gene Adams A/FD injected Hemi, it should have been done 2 years ago.

 

Geri -

Very nice work on your scale dragsters.
What scale are they ?

Mike

 

That's all steel tubing isn't it? Nice work.

 

I love them 1/8th scale builds.....

 

Am i crazy or is that guy on fire?

 

Indy Nationals, Big John far lane...damn, my old eyes can't see the near lane car!....photo by Dave McClelland...


Lee Christian, from Lubbock RX, Potvin-equipped blown Olds.


Yeakel-sponsored roadster at Lions...Don Rackmann usually drove, fuel burning Cadillac, sometimes ran a hydro trans by Fran Hernandez.


Pape Brothers big-inch flathead-powered roadster...it has been restored.


Steve Bovan...I knew Steve when we both worked at Blair's, before his life changed....At one point he took the injected wedge Dodge out of Don Blair's sprint car and ran it in this Mopar.


Tom McMullen racing Jim Cassady, Winternationals. Let the record show that Dean Lowe beat both of these cars with a truly street-legal street roadster...and Cassady's car was race-only running a blown Chrysler.

TOP PHOTO: 34 B/F at Pomona, Norm Grudem photo. Remember how closer to street legal old fuel coupes used to be.

 

Here's two more of his cars, the first is his Olds Potvin in a new Dragmaster chassis, the second is his Olds with a top mount blower in another Dragmaster chassis.

 

Gil Hayward's Monkey Motion, from La Canada, CA

 

Terry Mills, Lake, Oswego, Or.

 

they are 1:6 because that is the scale of engines available. I started trying to 'eyeball' them and they sucked so I started drawing them to scale and transfer the drawing to a fixture I make of wood, the tubing is 1/4" and 3/16" for the most part ,some roll cages are 5/16" they are brakeline tubing. one of the harder items to make is the adapter between the wheels which are to small diameter for the slicks ,it has to be grooved to accept the tire bead and they lightly press onto the radio control model wheels. I hope these aren't in the wrong place on this thread.sorry if they are.

 

Wow that’s so cool man!


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I think it's just some damage on the print or maybe the negative. But it does look like some licks of flame on the roof of the car.

 

Geri -

Very cool.
Na...it's a very nice model of early cars...it belongs here..!

Mike