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

WOW!!!! I would like to see that in person to see what broke. I must say he is a no fear type person to run something like that with that size engine / blower set up and use that small of a rear tire.

Jon Tomkins

 

It's a fine line between brave and crazy.

 

Yeah saw raley at bowling green a couple years ago and hes doing well so..all is good! I got about 5 scrapbooks full of my grandparents stuff from 1958 to 1980 so i gotta get that scanner up and running...in the mean time....

 

Great shots Red Fox.

 

How about some old shots.

 

The Pat Foster driven digger of Dusty Rhodes.
I used to drool over this car. Beautiful bodywork.
Photo on next to the start-up road at Irwindale...

 

I can see the car looks wet!!!

 

It was during one of my few ventures to Fontana Drag City (1965) that I saw the car for the 1st time: And it WON! I dont know if Foster was driving, but I loved seeing a full bodied car ousting out the more staid noseless rigs. Rhodes ran the car well into 1967

 

And what was so ironic was that Revell never offered this car as a kit.

 

Isn't this car known as the fastest street legal car in the world?

 

Looks like the old blimp base in Santa Ana or is it Paradise Mesa...Salinas? Love the old scenes like this one.

 

The most beautiful car ever built. Period.

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Sure is.
Andy Frost's Vauxhall. Twin turbo Big Block. 2200hp.
Watched him run a 7.5 at 192mph at the Hot Rod Drags last weekend. That's on regular pump gas, treaded tyres, and full exhaust system.
Reckons he had to dial in a soft power curve as the track was marginal.
Awesome.

 

the s&h car was one of the last to rely on weed sweepers, abandoning them only after eveyone else went to the zoomies. This car was wrecked either on the track or in being towed. I beleive it was replaced by the c-t automotive spl. That car featured the same basic design, but was a gold tangerine color. Bobby tapia was pilot as jeep hampshire hooked up with sid waterman i think.

 

WCD, wasn't that one of the few "legs under" cars???

 

Well it's not real old, but I still wish NHRA had of kept Modified Eliminator .

 

Stellings and Hampshire...You may be right. Beautiful car.

 

Could be. I was thinking that the Stellings/Tapia car was a legs under car much like the Tognittis machine and of course the Magi-Car.

 

Does it pass MOT?

 

Sure does.
The class he races in requires a 25 mile cruise on public roads as part of qualifying. Sometimes in the dark and in whatever the British weather can throw at them. Also includes 2 hot starts. One at a gas station where they have to take on regular pump gas.
Check out www.redvictor1racing.co.uk

 

its a street driven car too...heres a bit of footage of him before he did that to it

 

Not in motion...just looks that way. Shark car, first World Finals in Tulsa, 1966.

 

The Greek....nothing fancy, just fierce.