History ID on Racemaster tires

Can anyone ID the model/spec of the Racemaster tires on my late brother's car? That's an NHRA sticker on the windshield. This is as much of the car that's in the photo.

 

Thought I've seen that mug before....

 

You guys amaze me!!

 

5 minutes..

 

"Racemaster" was a name used by M&H on their slicks.

 

It’s Tony Danza, isn’t it?

 

It’s The Duke, and Jimmy Shine is out of the picture! Newbomb is getting the El Camino impounded.

 

Never saw that movie, but a friend of mine talks about Mike Hunt !

 

Nope! Not even close....

 

Thanks so much, I've been wondering about this for a long time!

 

RACEMASTER was the M&H used all their tires, their dirt RACEMASTERs had a shoulder on the outside edge of the tire

M&H started building oval track racing tires in 1952!
M&H founder Marv Riffcan took what he learned about compounds from oval track and applied it drag racing.






Note the RACEMASTER on the hood

 

Great info and pics. Thank you. And, yep, my late brother was a drag racer--top alcohol. Not sure what that white car in my pic is, though. But I am sure it was fast.

 

I think your brother may have had a 1967 Mercury Cougar.

 

Yes, I think you are right!--I do remember that he had a Cougar.

 

Big competitor early on was Inglewood Pos-A-Traction. The heavy ribbed buttress around the edge of early slicks was to support the extra width. They recapped passenger car tire carcasses and vulcanized big slabs of soft rubber to achieve the width. And you all knew this stuff so ignore this post.