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

Top Fuel Burnout on Hollywood Blvd
Opening of Cars of the Stars

 

Connie Kalitta in Ford's wind tunnel

 

Does any one else have any more pics of The Chicken Pickers or of '40 Willys 4-door sedan gassers, Thanks Brian

 

[/quote] Holy long injector stacks!!! Must have been trying to tune for length...

Most of the torque converter equipped cars did run longer stacks (for low-end torque) than those equipped with clutches.

 

LowKat, Looks like Hollywood Blvd had some "bite"; wheels up, RED Fuel car. Bet that was some echo with the tall buildings. Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Hey, that is the same car as my avatar, but in black & white. Ah the good old days.

 

From The pages of Hot Rod, Spiegel Bros A/Gas

 

348 inch 60 Chev

 

Where's this car from?

 

The 'NED' car "THUNDERBUG"

@ Cecil County ... mid '70s

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In the Spring of 1966 I saw Bruce run this car at Connecticut Dragway in a match race will Bill Flynn's Baracuda. Not really a fair match as the "Yankee Peddler" was a tube chassied, flip top full funny car. As I reacll, Larson was in the 10's and Flynn in the 9's.

 

Awesome

 

You gotta love the showmanship.

 

freaking awesome...theres some good pics of the mickey mouse car on nitrogeezers.com......

 

John Wiebe...

 

Don Ewald...Olsen and Ewald JR Fueler...Lions 1967....

 

Before they had a top notch fueler....Dwight Hughes in the Berry bros. and Hughes JR fueler....Lions....

 

Don Hampton...Pomona...1961...

 

That Don Hampton photo is sweet!!

 

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Actually, I don't think Flynn ran a flip top. As I remember, he had a '66 doorslammer funny just like USA-1, then went back to S/S just like all the factory supported racers in '67. I know it's hard to acept that Mopars beat Gm like a drum back when they ran stock blocks and heads back in the day.
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I loved the jr. fuelers. The racing was so close. In a typical 8 car show, there wouldnt be but a two or three tenth difference from the number one qualifier to the first alternate.

 

Yea, Flynn was running a 66 acid dipped Cuda with fiberglass tilt front end, left hand drive, etc, sponsored by Bardarhl oil. As for the Chevies "disadvantage", I think that at the time the 426 Hemi was just so much more well adapted too running fuel, especially in a normal aspirated form. There were a few exceptions, Bobby Woods Chevelle being one. But it wasnt until the advent of the 427 L-88 that the Chevies began level the playing field.