History Gas and Fuel altereds Rules and pics ?????

Larry
I think that when the high and mighty is mentioned most people mistakenly think "gasser" and not altered. it is one of the neatest altered coupes in the world I think for many reasons. Those guys experimented with one of everything.

 

Thanks for the reminder Beaner. That is a name that while big at the time I had forgotten. Is that an MGTD in your picture? In the early 60s there was an MGTF in the area here in Oregon that ran a Studebaker with Hilborn injeciton. Damn fast car for the time (roughly 135 / 1/4-mile).

- EM

 

Yep the body is mine. Metalshapes found it in Arizona a few years back. I suspected that it was from the Ol' Man's altered and when I got it home it certainly looked the part (all the way to the white paint under the primer). My little brother came by ( foster brother actually) and said, "hey that looks like the pictures of your dad's old car" (my sis has old photos I don't). The clincher was when mom came to visit, it was in the back yard. She walked over and kicked it and said, "What are you doing with dad's old race car?" So I asked her about it and she showed me the brazed tacks on the doors and said. "when he did that I wanted him to weld them up solid." I guess she was still mad about it because she kicked the car.

Anyway its mine now, if life ever gets the hell out of the way I may put it back on the track.

 

Orange Drag Reunion 2012

 

A bit modern but this is just fun to watch, if you turn the sound up you can get in touch with your gentler inside person.

 

TOLJASO!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here is a '60s slide show, maybe drop the sound out if the music is too nursing home for ya.

 

Whaaaaaat are you talking about? [emoji111]️[emoji33][emoji15]

 

Told ya so. comes out sounding like Toljaso in American English.

 

That sound like something drink people yells after hot chicks. LOL

 

If I owned a time machine and wanted to be sent to just one place; I would set it for the early 70's AA/FA wars, location: any No./So. Cal. dragstrip.
Then just keep hitting REPEAT

 

LOL
Unlike many of the youngest on this site I would not go back to the '50s for love or money but if I could be 20 years younger and dropped in Nor Cal in the late '60s that would be just fine for me that way I could have a step up on the game when I hit the '70s that I didn't have the first time around.

 

When I'm not racing I usually like to watch from the start line to see how cars launch. But when these guys come out to play I made a beeline for the top end. There is NOTHING like standing there when these guys fly by at WOT not only do you get the noise we all love but you can feel the vibrations in your chest.

 

Not sure where I read this but Don Garlits said one of the only guys that he would stop working on his car to go watch was Willie Borsch.

 

Jim "Jazzy" Nelson's Fiat was quicker than most dragsters.

 

Carl Grimes Buick powered Fiat, was well ahead of it time back in '57. The narrow rear axle and smooth hood side panels, made it special for that era. Jazzy Nelson's car would have fallen into the Competition Coupe category, due to the longer wheelbase and massive engine set-back.

 

Doc Eiland. out of Shreveport, LA. Motor in this pic is the blown Olds out of the Shreve Automotive "Tank" A sedan in post # #70. Car was low budget and very well built.
Later sold to Bill Stauffer in Texas, campaigned as seen here in a pic when I bought the car in the mid 80's
The car is currently being restored by rudygoose, paying homage to both eras. Always looking for more pics and memories of the car if you have them!

 

Didn't it use 15 oz of fuel per run? Seems I read that some wheres.... that aint much but it seems???

 

I don't think that there are many old dragster guys that would admit this but there were more than a few altered roadsters that could compete with the dragsters way back when. maybe not landing in the winners circle every time but would compete.

Looking at the pics of this roadster reminded me of when I was still a little kid (as opposed to the big kid I grew up to be) and my idea of the perfect altered roadster was to build a rumbl,e seat car and sit in the rumble seat.

 

Good thread Beaner, I assumed that 15 OZ. was the weight your balls needed to be to drive this thing!!!

 

No, it was the Burgermeister....we used almost a gallon of nitro on each run.....I knew these guys, it was the Burgermeister

 

Joe
maybe it is from a wrench's perspective, but by my way of thinking you don't really have to have large balls to drive a lot of the old altereds, they just have to be larger then your brain. LOL

 

A pic I haven't seen before of Hanks Tank, Shreve Automotive and the predecessor to the Doc Eisland car. Car went to east texas' Tyler area when sold we heard. Anyone know?
http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2014/06/01/hmn_feature2.html#PhotoSwipe1435450998742


Image 2 of 7: ''I knew this car. Shreve's Automotive of Shreveport, Louisiana, owned this car, which was known as Hank's Tank or simply, The Tank. It ran as a B/Altered with a blown small-block Chevy on gas. Basically, the formula was that if you had a C/Altered car and put a blower on it, you ran as a B/Altered. The Tank dated back to 1963 or 1964, I would say. It's a 1929 Ford Model A Tudor with an altered wheelbase. The quality of workmanship and assembly here was really impressive. I remember these guys when I was in high school, and this was considered a pretty famous car with very good craftsmanship, even though they were straight sportsman racers. Back then, you didn't buy a chassis, you built everything yourself. Look at the top chop and the front wheels. At first, I thought they might have been Volkswagen wheels, but probably not because they match up to the Ford spindles. I'm guessing that they must have drilled out the wheel discs themselves, just like they did to the visor at the front of the body to save weight. This was a really handsome car with excellent workmanship.''

 

Bringing this one back up with another pic of The Tank vs a Fiat.