History Drag Roadsters............picture thread

High & Mighty



Joint Effort

 

Three wheels off the ground



6 cylinder

 

At Dover Dragstrip

 

Some great stuff in this thread. Thanks so much guys for keeping it going.

 

Gary Essman going for a wild ride in Jim Miles Magic Muffler Bantam at LIONS.

 

Glad we have you ahem... old dudes (of which I am one) that know these cars from being around at the time.

 

Proof of why two wheeler bars are better then one.

 

Jim didn't even have a wheelie bar on the Bantam. Gary is scraping the push bar!

 

But it sure puts a strange tilt on things.

 

Dan Schuster



Dean White & Heath








6 or 8 ???



Dornam & Kooplan



posted by swi66 in the vintage thread

 

Dornam & Kooplan


More like Dorman and Koopman--currently being restored by Rich Conklin. At least the second photo is from the US Nationals at Indy and I think that both are. Read about it here: http://www.roddersjournal.com/portfolio-item/restoring-dorman-koopman-aastreet-roadster/

Roo

 

6 or 8 ???

Wayne headed GMC six.

Roo

 

The version of this photo that you posted back in March was much clearer and you were able to read that it is the Russell and Rice car and caption it as such. The owners were Dennis Russell and Jerry Rice and they were out of Lafayette, IN.

Roo

 

Posted by Steel Wheel in the vintage thread



The Street Cleaner



Walt's Puffer Too

 

Jerry Hays at OCIR on the second week that the track was open in 1967. Although NHRA class racing took place at the opening event at the new facility the second race was a bracket event with Hays taking the Bracket One cash. Hays later ran a fiberglass bodied 27 T with a Competition Engineering chassis in A/SR after the NHRA relaxed the rules for the category and Dean Lowe can tell you all about that.

Roo

 

Yes I can Roo. The long and short of it is they fucked the street roadster classes into oblivion. At least the gassers and fuel altereds went match racing for a while.

 

Posted by Steel Wheel in the vintage thread

 

Gary Burgin




Good Bad Ugly

 

Crazy Greek



Low Blow



Mental Cruelty

 

Sometime back I posted this crazy car



Now J. Ukrop has posted a new blog about it here: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=36175
with a couple better photos of it.

 

As noted when this photo was posted on the DCIM thread back in April this is Larry Dixon (Sr) in the Fireside Inn AA/C

Roo

 

And this is the Campos Brothers. The name comes from when they originally ran a front mounted blower.

 

Seattle in the 60's. I would assume the wood block is there because the car is sitting near the top of the road course hill which comes up behind the tower.

 

posted by Coutin'Carbs in here:https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...drag-cars-photos.532331/page-59#post-12338863

6 cylinder Action Motor Co

 

Jan Riedel Frustration 6 cylinder?




Mother in law



Puff N' Stuff

 

Pure Hell day

vs Pure Heaven

 

The Stone T in a wild photo

 

Jerry Rushing or Red Paris in the Bowers, Paris and Reed Bantam. The car started life as a steel Topolino and after the Bantam also ran with a 23 T body. First raced in 1963, it ran in its various forms through at least 1970.

Roo

 

Jan Riedel, who was a well known Modified Eliminator racer from Tiffin, Ohio at the US Nationals in 1972.

Roo

 

Can't tell you about the car but the photo is from the 1966 US Nationals and is from the top end--tires are tall, diagonal lines across the track and the oval track spectator mound in the background.

Roo