Soooo cool! Maybe over the holidays I can get some of my mom's archive (its big and it is awesome!) and share it with everyone.
thanks for posting pic's.love the older drag cars,and wish they all would come back.i have a anglia and cant even spell compuetor
If you look closely at that photo you can see a piece of schrapnel headed for the fence. I wonder if the spectator was circled because something happened to him?
Living only 2 miles away from where the "Coburn Glaze SPL." was built, we naturally followed it to Bakersfield to watch it run!!----Pretty awesome!------Don
I read (dunno if it's true, gotta take what you read on the internet with a grain of salt) that the kid circled in the Garlits clutch explosion is the boy that got killed by the said flying peice of clutch. None the less.....super duper set of awesome pics....bunches I've never scene.
The Noel Black, twin engine, 4WD car. I've been fascinated by it when I first saw a photo of it years ago in an article about LSR streamliners in some magazine. The car was outfitted in a full body and looked a little like the Summers Brothers' Goldenrod with the enclosed ****pit behind the rear wheels, but with two huge blisters covering the blown motors. The car was refered to as Noel Black's "Rhinosaurus." Certainly, the name was inspired by the blister ahead of the front wheels, looking something like a rhino's horn. The brief caption accompanying the photo said that Black died when the car crashed at the Salt doing 300 mph. I've seen this photo of the car in it's dragster form lots of times, including at the Garlits Museum, but have been unable to find a picture of it in it's streamliner guise or anything further about it or Black. Does anyone have any info?
Those were great pictures! That is a Turbonique powered kart, and one came up for sale a couple of years ago. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190391 Post #35 has some detailed information.
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