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

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Schartman 67-68 Cougar

 

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Schartman 69 Cougar

 

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The crunched up Super Chief served as the last in the cars series. Too bad, it was a looker and its intriguing to guess how it would have faired once all the problems were sorted out.

 

The old Santa Maria track began back in the 1950s and is currently known as Foster Road. (Sherm Porter photo)

 

WCD:

After the Charger I belive a Camaro came out. I don't think Nelson Carter was involve though.

I got some photos of it on one of my cd's but witch one I have no idea. When I find it I'll post it.

Think it was a Mike Ditty photo. Anybody else have a shot of it?

Thanks,

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Plum & Duke,Henry Harrison & Amos Satterlee named their car "Super Chief" about five years after the last Nelson Carter car,in 1978.Mike Ditty photo. Dennis Doubleday

 

Thats it Dennis.

Thanks,

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I was going through some cd's that people sent me while looking for the Super Cheif car but Dennis found it first, anyway theres some cars on those cd's that I never heard off & so many names for the cars. I miss thouse names & cartoons they use to put on the cars.

One of the cd's has over 1,000 photos.

Thanks all.

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I see NHRA used one of my photos for their car haulers series.

The Tentmaker.

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Yea you are right on one count, but I was mainly reffering to Carter himself. I must admit that I forgot about Harrison's Camaro, a car I saw more thyen a few times

 

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Wasn't M/T the first to put Zoomies on a F/C?

On the Tyree Headers shot the NITRO fumes must have been hot & heavy. Its got be bad when the starter got to wear a face mask.

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The vega funny car in post #19273 got me to thinking about the 4-wheel drive vega that was on the cover of Hot Rod back when. Didn"t the driver get killed in a crash testing that vega?

 

Gary Gabelich was seriously injured in the crash of an experimental 4 wheel drive Funny Car. Gabelich died in January 1984 in a motorcycle crash.

 

From drawing board to reality . . . can this car be for real?

This month's cover car represents one of the best-kept secrets of recent drag-racing history. Even in Southern California, few people were aware that a Chrysler-powered, rear-engined, four-wheel-drive, monocoque Vega panel truck was under construction. Even with the rumors that circulated, few people knew the who, why and where of the unique undertaking. Now the car is finished and ready for its driver, Gary Gabelich, the "fastest man on wheels."

This particular car began to evolve during a discussion between Bob Kachler and Kenny Youngblood at Kachler's Racing Graphics offices in Long Beach, California. Ideas developed into drawings, and soon chassis-builder Paul Sutherland had become involved, bringing with him Al Willard, a friend and engineer who had helped design the highly innovative and successful Ti-22 titanium Can-Am car.

All that was left was to find someone with some money and an interest in the project. That person was Gary Gabelich, holder of the World's Land Speed Record at over 600 mph, a record achieved at the Bonneville Salt Flats in a rocket-powered vehicle.

Drag racing is nothing new to Gabelich. He has piloted both Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, including the Beach City Corvette. He was also a test subject for the astronaut's life support systems -- space suits and ejection equipment -- for the Apollo moon program. Now, following his success at Bonneville, Gary wanted to try his hand at drag racing again. And in a unique fashion.

Gary's car couldn't be much more unique at the present time. Currently there are no single-engine, four-wheel-drive cars on the drag strips. Nor are there any monocoque vehicles (Mickey Thompson's monocoque Mustang has long since been retired). There are only a handful of rear-engined Funny Cars, and none that can be considered successful. There are no Vega panel trucks. And, certainly, there is no other car that has as distinctive an appearance.

The car's construction was handled by Paul Sutherland at his Race Car Works from plans produced by himself and Al Willard. Since the entire concept of the car is so unusual, there is a minimal number of parts that are already in existence that are adaptable to this particular design. For this reason, the cost of the car is slightly higher than the average Funny Car.

Near the end of construction, the cost was just approaching $32,000, thanks in part to such special items as the hand-spun, two-piece, 12-inch-wide Cragar aluminum wheels and the Spicer-Dana constant-velocity axles (each of the four axles is worth over $900).

The formed-aluminum monocoque construction was chosen for lightest weight and maximum driver safety, and contributes to the car's 60% - 40% weight distribution. With a wheelbase of 130 inches and an overall height of only 41 inches, the Vega panel easily qualifies as one of the longest, lowest Funny Cars ever to hit the strips. Don Kirby handled the paint; Kenny Youngblood did the lettering and detail painting.

As unique as it is, the Gabelich Vega represents only one in a series of radically different drag-racing vehicles to be featured first in the pages of Car Craft in the coming months.

 

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Tyree racing the Mondello/Matsubara AA/FA was a fad that died out by 1970. It was entertaining though to see FC's vs altereds. The outcome wasnt always predicatable. All of Tyree's funnies featured the unquie Molly paint job. Deep metalflake hues that could only be appreciated up close and in person

 

The white Challenger depicted in the collage some 5 frames up was obviously the former LA Challenger owned by the late Marv Eldridge. I always wondered what became of the car after Eldridge passed away. The Ronnie Scrima chassis belonged to Fred Goeske' 69 Road Runner.

 

I always wondered what the Time Machine 1 look like???

In my photos it says Time Machine ll.

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I had a big talk with Shoe's purple car which he said he never own a purple car. Well, in my photo its purple. I have other shots of this car that you will see & to me its purple. I even got some slides in the pits & it sure looks purple to me.

What do you guys think? You don't have to let me know right away. You might want to see the other photos first.

I wish Don Kirby was still alive as I'ld call him & ask him as he painted it.

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First car, PURPLE.

Look whos driving M/T yellow car, Larry Fullerton.

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# 1 PURPLE.

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I thought the M/T Maverick would be a killer as you had Woody Gilmore do the (titaun sp) chassis, Alan Gillis doing the wrenchs who was damm good.

Turned out to be a trud. Never set the world on fire like I thought.

Look at the guy in the blue jacket, looks like he just come back from "Weekend at Berie's"

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Heres a JUNGLE JIM car you haven't seen. LOL

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Is this a second car, or the Camaro rebodied?

Tim