Projects Dragster Club..........picture thread

Just came across this thread, count me in. This is my car that I bought when I got out of the Army in 1971, put it togrther in '73 and ran the A/ER class till NHRA said they had no more interest in us, so I went brackert racing for a few more years. Then after having to spot a 22 sec. Vega against my 9.90 car I just said I had enough. This is the way it looked when I parked it in the barn out back, then went hot rodding, about 5 years ago some friends said get it out and show it, so every now and then we take it to a few shows.

 

heres mine ,the dragster is a 1967 jim davis 175" chromoly chassis,(updated), i named it "the whip" after jim davis, engine is a 600hp small block chevy and shorty powerglide 57-64 8 3/4 chrysler rear with spool and 4:56 gears, front axle wing and moon fuel tank, typically runs 8.80's to 8.90's @ 150 to 155 mph. and a blast to drive, my personal best is 8.87E.T.@152MPH, im converting to injected on alcohol next season. should be 8.20's at 158-161mph with this setup, cant wait.... john
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnstanovich2

 

Dragster John,
What size motor,tires and what RPM are you turning in the lights?

 

My recent purchase..............


Supposedly a Logghe chassis with a Begler body

Build thread-> http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430809

 

1968 Jim Davis car rescued from a car museum in Calif...updated to meet chassis cert and now finding it's way down the 1/4 mile again (only now in Ks).'

 

Late to the party, but here's Rocinante- a 2009 King Chassis car built for us. Just got the wheels and tires over the weekend.

http://rocinanteridesagain.wordpress.com/

 

Opps , Ham"B"ster dragsters not Hamster - My bad

 

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!

 

i have never posted these before...very few people know that i even owned an FED at one point. this is my old Chassis Research car; photos are from just after i bought it around the fall of 1990 or so, at the Beloit Autorama swap. purchase price...$350.00. those were the days......... i knocked it down for storage shortly after these pictures were taken and then finally sold it in 1996, but kept the ET III's; which i subsequently traded to Dave Mann from Roadsters.com around 2002

the car seemed well crafted, but was well abused by the time i had it. it featured a Ross steering gear and a chromed 37 v8-60 front axle and hairpins. it had apparently been raced into the later '60's/early '70's with the ET III's, newer bodywork, and psychedelic-ish paint/stripework

when i owned it i had no real bio on the car...and it's not like today where we have a lot more resources to find that sort of thing. any leads or information on this car before i had my hands on it would be appreciated

 

This is what you get when you hang around with Rocky for a weekend.......

 

Very cool Carl.

 

Here are some shots of my new NT/F digger. We managed to get it to the March Meet and Dan Horan Jr made a shot in it in the second qualifying session. I will be doing my license runs in the next few weeks and may race the car at Boise in April. The last two shots show the benefits of owning a T/F dragster.










Roo

 

Bad ass looking car Roo !!!!!!

 

Here's what I have started. Hope to have it out at Eagle Field in May.

and the power plant.
Y of course.

 

Looks good.

 

Nice Roo!!!! Did you haul any of the gals back to Indy with ya?. If so, I'm coming to visit!!

 

Check out Kieth Tardel's (Keith on the HAMB) Digger! Keith plans on having a space at Eagle Field's Fresno Dragways Reunion in "Vendors Row" with one of his Dragsters on display. He is SELLING these cars and they would be PERFECT for our Eagle Field C/GD Class. Rocky

 

My two.

 

Updated the wheels, or, back dated the wheels Which ever, I like it better.

 

That an LW-106 with an older style cage ?

 

More like a TE-448 with the 440 style cage and parallel rails.

 

THIS IS THE CHASSIS I USED TO BUILD THE HOLLISH BROS CAR. Todd

 

thanks to Todd for relaying this information to me and for using my old chassis to recreate the Hollish Bros. car. you are a true inspiration Todd!

 

I think that is the frist white dragster frame I have evere seen, I love it, looks clean and neat.

 

Getting ready to bring it back to life!!!!! Anyone one know who's chassis this is???

 

Heres my effort, Please dont shoot me on style, just doing what I can with what I got

 

Damn that is a good lookin ride.

 

Heres mine

 

^^^beautiful!

 

Hi Ricky, good to see you post a pic of your digger here.

Kiwi Kev, that photo was taken at the HAMB Drags last year. You need to make a trip back east. KING