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

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Man awesome shots....that 32 CC coupe shot is the shits.

 

This one reminds me of Bristol.

 

Diggin' the picture of Richard Petty in the Barracuda! Too bad he had a tragic experience in it.

Hail to the King!

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

What's the rest of that story?

 

He crashed his car at the Southeastern Dragway, in Dallas, Georgia, on February 28, 1965, killing an eight year old boy, Wayne Dye, and injuring seven others.

 

I believe it was a piece of the suspension broke making the car turn hard. If I remember there was little protection for the spectators.

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

Was it? I know they tried to sue Petty, Lee (his father) and Mopar for a million dollars (thats a million dollars in 65!)

 

By all means, keep posting these great pictures!

And no, this isn't my RPU!

 

cant go wrong with a fendered 28/9 rpu

 

Yes, from other pics I have seen, that is Eddie Hill in post #26709.

Also, post #26702, is Eddie with a lengthened chassis and full body.

I have various pics from Alton Dragway I plan on posting when I get time in a week or three.

 

Dean,
I had to do a double take to make sure.
The purple car is Carl Stone's Rolling Stone. Pretty well known car around these parts. I'm pretty sure it's been (over) restored. He later ran a Funny Car with the same name.
Larry T

 

Al VanderWoude and I in front of his aunt and uncle's house in West Virginia after a race at Aquasco, 1967.

 

http://www.hot-rodgarage.com/magazinearticles/americanrod1.html

 

That RPU has '30 fenders, a full length bed, and that horrible square roll bar. Frank Kurtis would never do a square roll bar! Carl Stone pretty much owned the B/SR class before we built my roadster. Once I set the national speed and ET records at the '62 Winternationals, he never held the national record again.

 

A close friend of mine who drove some of my cars was there with his family that day. He is deceased now, but I recall his recollections of that event which was never very publicly recognized.
The event on the east side of Atlanta at Yellow River 4 years later however changed the way all racing events, and especially drag racing, would be handled. I hated to see the Coke Calvacade come to an end. A lot of local drivers got their licenses upgraded and signed off on when the pros came to town.
Anyone know whose idea it was to turn a funny car loose in 07' on a public road in downtown Selmer Tn? It was back in the news after the first settlements were just being reached last week.
Tom S. in Tn.

 

Wasn't it a pro mod....mentioned above? Bad deal either way

 

Does anyone have a picture of '65(?) "The Witchdoctor" Mustang from Weatherford Ford in Carlinville, IL ?

 

Troy Critchley in a Pro-Mod.
Good driver, bad idea with catastophic results.
Larry T

 

"The event on the east side of Atlanta at Yellow River 4 years later however changed the way all racing events, and especially drag racing, would be handled. I hated to see the Coke Calvacade come to an end."

I was at Yellow River that day, we had ran a friends 440-6 pack GTX that day and the day before. My friends and I were standing right across the track from where the car went into the crowd and had almost crossed the track before the run. That is something I will never forget.

 

Back to the dayz

 

Here are my first contributions to this post. These were all taken at Alton Dragway. I do not know the photographer. I met Mike Storey (stepson of John Storey, owner of Alton) about 1995, and these are from the family archives. Mike trusted me with the original photos to take home and scan them to floppy discs. I can't thank Mike enough, and now I'd like to share them with all of you. In the next few weeks, I will be adding a bunch more from the files. ENJOY....



Unknown F/Gas



Unknown Comp Dragster



Unknown B/Stock

 

I decided to break these up into individual posts. Three more....



Selkirk and Bork



Unknown injected Valiant



Placke Chevrolet Corvette (Placke was a dealership in STL, Mo)

 

Not sure which one, but one of these is supposed to be John Storey





Ballenger and Kirby B/Gas



Scotty's Muffler

 

Fibertech, excellent stuff! -MIKE

 

For years, I had never heard of Yellow River, and whenever my friend talked about Petty at Dallas, I assumed it was the same catastrophic race changing event. Like my Pro Mod mistake above, the term Funny Car was used generically.
At any rate, even though through the years I ultimately did learn about Yellow River and Houston Platt, and it was not until joining the HAMB this year that I got to read actual commentary from real witnesses like yourself above.
Simply amazing to be caught in time like this. Tom S. in Tn.

 

Fibertech that is what this thread is all about. An archive of photos that cannot be matched. Thank you very much.

 

I concur.........! Tom S.

 

Thanks alot for all your respones, hold on to your goggles boys, there's more coming down the road. One question though, is the photo size alright or will I get sent to the cornfield for not sizing them down. I have noticed that alot of people post thumbnail sized photos. I just prefer looking at the full sized pics without having to click on every single pic I want to see close up.