Hello I am New to the site.Looks like a great place to hang out. Thanks for all the pictures and information. looking for any pictures of an Anglia that ran at Oswego in the 70s SHORT & SWEET also a 55 chevy red primer called DETERMINATION or a 48 fiat was blue called MALARIA the red white & blue with no name. all ran at Oswego. I am also looking for some old quarter mile countdown magazines. any help on that would be cool. Thanks Herman <!-- / message -->
Check with OleMuleSkinner. His club (Blacktop Barons) is putting on a show in June that will be featuring old Oswego cars. If he doesn't know about the cars you're looking for, I'm sure he'll want some info when you find it!
Here is a Fiat that I know of from Western, NY. Not sure if it is or resembles the one you are looking for. This car was for sale buy a member here on the HAMB.
Oswego around here means Supermodified roundy rounders. That little Fiat might have a problem making the left at the end of the front straight.....
Ya, I was kind of wondering the same thing after I posted it. I didn't know if they might of had a dragstrip there in the early days like Fonda speedway or Utica-Rome speedway where the dradstips are long since gone.
these might be them. If you come down to our show in june there will be alot of guys with pictures and footage. Not to mention alot of guys that raced there
Sorry guys ,Yes it was a drag strip called Oswego Dragway and it was in Oswego Illinois . The pictures of the Fiat and the 55s are great . But they are not the ones I am looking for . Thanks for the info about the show in June I will be there. Thanks to everyone
These are bad pictures but they are the only ones I have. Maybe this will help find the Fiat. Thanks again
My Dad took me out there when I was a kid in the mid 70's. There was a green Anglia that I remember as being one of the coolest cars I've ever seen. That was a great track!
This is a picture of The Chicken Coupe that ran at Oswego and Assumption dragstrips back in the day. It was candy red with an injected chevy 302. It's a 1934 Chevy coupe. Originally built and raced by the Zimmerman brothers (chicken farmers) from Forrest Illinois. Some might remember they used to drag a rubber chicken down the track with them. I bought it and kept it in the 80's. Eventually I sold it to someone from Indiana and would like to contact the current owner. I used to go down to the Zimmermen garage and watch them work on the coupe before I was even old enough to drive. I'm not sure which track this was taken at. Any help to find this coupe would be appreciated. Please PM me or call 815-867-7631
Wow bad looking car. cant tell what track that is. Cool name. I will look out for it. good luck hope you find it. Looks scary fun.
I used to shoot for the Quarter Mile Countdown in the mid 70's. I was given a list of cars each week that I was to feature. Burnout, starting line, engine, interior, and owner/driver. Those were delivered to the "boss" the next week and they ran them in the magazine. there was another photographer that worked Oswego occasionally but mostly US 30 but I can't remember his name. If you have any of the Quarter Mile countdowns you might find his name. I looked through my old negatives but couldn't find the cars you asked about.
No I don't own Short & Sweet . A friend of ours & neighbor at the time in Summit Illinois owned the Anglia. His name was Frank Glorioso he was an Electrician. We lost touch with him when he moved out to the south suburbs. Are family ran the Fiat and 55 Chevy.So we all hung out and raced on the weekend. Just looking for pictures to bring back the old memories. Thanks for everybody that's looking.
Here is one for TOMCAT1 . I took this out of the Quartermile countdown April 1976 ( THE CHICKEN COOP )
The Jalopy Journal
