History SUPER STOCK A/FX & Match race photos

Just 4 Chevy Lovers

 

The beginning of the Chi Town Hustler legend. Minnick and Farkonas before Coil.

Roo

 

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Chevy Charger Doug Marion

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Whatever became of Doug Marion? I became familiar with his name beginning in the
early '80s when he was writing for Super Chevy magazine. I eventually stopped reading
that magazine and LB's posting of this pic piqued my curiosity. Marion would briefly
mention his history with early drag racing Chevys.

 

Hemi Under Glass 1965 2nd Annual Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races

 

Richard Petty's supercharged Cuda flashes down the strip here in this picture made just an instant before the vehicle veered off the track and into the crowd. Petty's car plunged into the spectators just left of the pole at right.

 

Another Getty image where the caption writer needs help--Petty's car was injected, not blown.

Roo

 

How many folks died in that wreck???.....

 

One 8 year old boy who was hit by a wheel that came off the car. Seven others including the child's father were injured.

Roo

 

1965 NASCAR Drag Races Dragway 42 Ohio. Kohler Brothers A/Gas Anglia versus B/FX Downy Ford

 

1965 NHRA Spring Nationals - Bristol International Dragway. Cotton Owens to build a mid-engine, Hemi-powered Dodge Dart Wagon dubbed The Cotton Picker

 

I believe David Pearson was the driver of the Cotton Picker at one time, and that would have been during the Hemi/NASCAR controversy.

 

Bakersfield Smokers Meet Drag Races. Shirley Shahan, The Drag-On Lady, in her A990 Super Stocker.

 

Buckwheat

 

Cal Van

 

“Drag-on Lady”, Shirley Shaha

 

All FOUR up

 

Was this the same car that ran as Al DeSalvo's "Spartacus" for many years ????

 

Yes it crashed at the grove during a mopar weekend. Denny Guest restored the car back to it's original racing configuration before al got ahold of it. I was right there when the car tossed a rod and oiled the tires. To fix the car the frame was cut at the fire wall. Everything forward was replaced. That's alot of expensive aluminum that got destroyed.

 

Fritz Callier and J. E. Kristek

Roo

 

Sorry I missed your question. I'm glad Racer X stepped in because I didn't know.

 

john grinwald in the asphalt elephant.

 

^^ Thanks for the i.d. I never saw that car again. ^^

 

Its run regularly at the grove. He is part of the nss group. He is out of Watertown wisc.

 

Seems that there was more than one or two incarnations of Petty's car. One car with a lot of changes done to it...or more than one car ?
There's a nice clean, pretty copy in the SoCal, NHRA Museum right now.

Mike

P.s. - I hate overly clean and polished restored OR reproductions. Cars, Planes, makes no difference.