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

Yes, WILD WILLIE was the REAL DEAL.

Plum

 

Cool! Got any flopper pics???

 

And he was a riot in person. Lots of stories and he was very funny too. I got to spend a few days with him when the Fuel Altereds were on their east coast tour. RIP, Willie

 

Pay attention and back up a few pages. Plum has posted what is probably the most extensive collection of funny car pix around.

Roo
ps If you are referring to pix of Willie's Satellite flopper I am certain that there are some shots of it in the series.

 

We'll do! Thanks!

 

Deuces:

I posted over 1,200 photos of the flops.

Go back on the pages as they will be there.

Thanks,

Plum

 

Absolute classic,Plum.Thanks for all your postings.

 

Last of the Altereds. Will be going to T/F.

I like to add something about the Fuel Altereds.

Back east we didn't have to many F/A's I've been lucky with drag racing as I got to travel a lot over the years. Move to Long Beach, CA. in '69 for a few years and the fuel altereds blew my mind.

Lions, OCIR, & Irwindale use to have 8 & sometimes 16 car open shows. It was commond to see 20 some cars show up. It waw the most exciteing shows I ever seen as the Altereds did ANYTHING they wanted to do & you just hang on for the ride.

This just wasn't for the fuel altereds. I rember back east of a car called the Jersy Jimmy with a straght 8 Buick and that thing would go down the track like a grasshopper. Hopping all over the place. Very strong running & won many races.

What was really cool was back in the day when they had there filds filled & the others who got bump out came right back up & try to get back into the field. You didn't have no set time to run. You could run as many as you wanted. Guys getting back in & bump somebody out would come back & try to get back in was crazy.

This was for all cars, T/F, Flops, & the Altereds. Drag Racing was fun back in those days.

Back east the oes that went on tour was only about 4 to 6 cars and a track would book them and when they ran we thought we seen something. You had to be out west to see some real shows.

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