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

Back to the top because I cannot get enough of these street roadsters!!!!!

 

Hello,

I was doing some research on my friends from Northern California. Namely the Forsberg Brothers. Their story is a great development story from the early custom truck days to the fast junior fuel dragsters. But, along the way, they had a “hot modified roadster” that won races and set plenty of records along the way.

As I was reading several periodicals, the Kingdon Dragstrip in Lodi mentioned the competition of the Forsberg Brothers in their hot roadster and in the next class.

Jnaki

So, for the second eliminator races, the roadster winners were a part of the elimination races. Each dragstrip had their own designation for a division of class splits. A/R, B/R, + A/HR and B/HR YRMV

 

And correct me if I’m wrong @Stan Back , but I believe Hot Roadster meant it ran nitro.

 

Nice and then the 195A/H would hold the 1320 record clocking 9.01 @ 174 for 1962-63-64.

 

Hello,
The Fuel Altered Roadster class had some hard charging racers. The results for 1964 were listed as open.

Jnaki
By the middle of 1964, they stopped posting 1320 records and from that point on, the classes started to get removed from competition at most major dragstrips. Then, as we all know, it ended up with 3 classes , fuel dragsters, funny cars and motorcycles.

The record keeping by the 1320 news group in the Drag News, just stopped and the writing was all fuel dragsters, some altered stock cars and then leading into funny cars. But, by1966, the classes we all liked and participated in disappeared. The occasional headline... "SWC wins a match race...etc" were all that was left of the Gas Coupe and Sedan classes. The other classes, roadsters, altereds and such also disappeared, only sometimes were in their own match races. It certainly was not progress... YRMV

 

Yep.....the 195A/H was posting good records and backing it up ! Have those old Drag News as well and some from the 50's.....will dig them out when I have a moment. They went 158mph or so in Don's 1932 built Hemi roadster in the late 50's before the 195 was built so they had been together awhile.