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Isky's roadster was at Wayne Carini's shop last year. No one has told us why.

 

I met Bengt last year at fall Carlisle. I sold him my spare SBC tri-power set up.

 

Ed Roth, himself.

 

Daytona Beach ?

 

Neat.

 

Clair Heaton was the man's name, I bought a Drag Action Cam from him in 1964.

 

Excuse my ignorance but what motor is in that blue dragster in front of the Ranchero up above. The center exhaust ports looks Siamese and split but I can't figure what it is. Looks like maybe the distributor is run off the front of the cam also?

 

sure looks sbc..

 

Hello,

How interesting, as I was just reading Pat Ganahl's account of the 1959 Riverside Raceway drag race with some great photos by Doug Petersen Then it switched to this:

"We’re still at San Gabriel, but it’s now May ’59. And Fred Heistand’s very short, homebuilt rail with a carbureted Olds mill, early Ford wires on the front, and single-groove Inglewood slicks on the rear already looks dated, but nicely done."

It is a nice description of the great color photo from May of 1959. Doug Petersen photos

Jnaki

"Friends call him “Potvin Doug.” And you’ll hear more about him in columns to come. But I introduced him several months back in one titled That and This where I showed one of his color ’50s photos seen here, along with his completely home-built, Chrysler Hemi-powered, Potvin front-blown vintage-style dragster. Scroll back to take a look."

"In that short piece I had to apologize for not mentioning his name–Doug Peterson–when I did an extensive article in The Rodder’s Journal No. 65 titled The Unknown Drag Race, featuring dozens of similar black and white photos taken by him at a huge, but very little publicized, mid-Winter drag meet at Riverside Raceway in Dec. ’59 that drew all the best-known dragsters of the time with a $1000 Top Eliminator purse. The problem was that he had sent them to me at Rod & Custom 20 years earlier as small black-and-white prints that I copied with my own camera."

Classic photos from a classic time period of So Cal drag racing history...



1959 Riverside Raceway early morning to late afternoon...

early Ivo twin

 

Andy's picnic, as in Andy Brizio, probably mid 70's or so. At Crow Canyon Park, Castro Valley CA. I'm pretty sure I was there that day, I went every year. Didn't cost much to get in, maybe $5 or $10 a person, included free food. Might have even included a shirt and dash plaque, can't remember all that. Great times.