front engine DRAGSTERS. lets see em...

This belongs to a friend of mine....we're restoring it now.....

 

Nice thread! One piece of history still for sale in Finland: http://www.trianglemotor.com/fi/dragster.htm

 

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How about this one, Childs & Alberts with flattie, Evans heads, 4-2's with Scot topped 97's


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GREAT stuff everybody.

this one is about what my friend wants to build. somethin like this or that last one Radshit posted. he would'nt mind buyin an old one that needs restored or at least on old chassis.


i've checked out the sites mentioned many times and spent a couple hours on them right after starting this thread. i'd forgotten about them till i brought it up here.

keep those dragster pics comin, the earlier the better. i want to see some REAL early rail jobs...

 

Here's some shot's off of the Mac Tools web site. Lot's of cool stuff! I'm getting ready to suit up this spring. We're building two front engine dragsters at the shop right now. Blown flathead and blown hemi. We should be ready to get the frame NHRA inspected in another month or so.

http://www.50th-usnationals.com/galleries.html

monkey

 

next..

 

last for now..

 

Im trying to figger this scanner buisness out..

 

"Mr. Flathead"....mid-60's.

 

My first one....1963.

 

Kenneth Reierson Cranfills Gap TX

 

Wild Hare Racing in the '90s -- early '60s Fuller-style chassis, 286-cid alcohol flatmotor, high 10s, low 11s.

 

My dad recently found a box negs of a bunch of pics he took when he was the starter at Fremont back around 63 or 64. Not scanned yet, but worth the world to me and my brothers.

 

A little digger we have.......

 

I don't know if it qualifies, but it is a rail. I think R told me its a Dave Moon chassis that was never run.



swdobbs...

 

swdobbs. where is this car? who owns it??? that is totaly bitchin!!

Sixcarb, that rail is great too. whats the story on it???

 

if you search the forums i put a post like this up a few months back that had a few cool pics on it. i used to have a bunch of old digger pics but my computer crashed so i lost em all. Also check out hotrod.com, they did a front engine dragster buildup in the last few issues. the car they built had a real 60's vibe, was built for less than 25k and ran 9's i believe.

 

kustombuilder,

The car is in Montana, a buddy of mine named Ryan owns it.

swdobbs....

 

is that car really just sitting in his basement there on hte carpet? if it is thats gotta be the coolest basement furnitre in a long time.

 

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kustombuilder,

The car is in Montana, a buddy of mine named Ryan owns it.

swdobbs....

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would he sell it??

 

The dude smoking pouring Nitro is my new hero! Pure BAD ASS.

I really dig the "front wheels up" pix, and made the second one my desktop. I wonder what the photog and the people in front of the NHRA sign were looking at, cause I'd have been watching that car wheelie!

Jay

 

Here's a lot of interesting FEDs I shot at the 2003 Flathead / Inline NATs
FEDs

 

Here's the Thunder Road Special.
We run at Nostalgia events here on the east coast at Epping NH.



Doing what it does best!!

 

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kustombuilder,

The car is in Montana, a buddy of mine named Ryan owns it.

swdobbs....

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would he sell it??

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Money won't buy that digger, I've tried.

 

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Yep on display in his living room.

 

Still gotta scan a few hundred slides I shot in the late fifties/early sixtie but I got a ton of front engine dragster pics in amongst 'em.

Here's a shot of the rail I used to crew on in the mid sixties.

Yea,,,,, That's me

 

Here's a shot from the following year after the chassis was lengthened and the body re-painted.

 

Hell hath now fury like the sound of the residents of Tim Conder's garage at full song...

 

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Hell hath now fury like the sound of the residents of Tim Conder's garage at full song...

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Any news on that? I want to see 'em RUN!