Looking from 63rd St. near Cicero Ave. at a plane coming into Chicago’s Midway Airport. I know people that won’t fly in or out of there, it’s only one square mile so runway length is a bit short, plus it’s landlocked by homes and industry
Hi swi66. what's going on in pic #6? Is that blower offset to the right of centre,or just camera tricks.
Hello, My brother and I were at Lion’s Dragstrip from 1957 to 60. Our adventures allowed us to see plenty of old racers at the time. The Dragmaster crew (Dode Martin and Jim Nelson) from Carlsbad drove up to Lion’s Dragstrip almost every weekend we seem to be there. In between our own rounds, I was always wandering around with our 16mm color point and shoot movie camera. So, I got to see the drag racers up close as my pit pass would allow. It also allowed me to wander to places where I probably should not have been. One of those places was the tower side location on the Eastside of the dragstrip. I got to be good friends with Mr. Childers from the Dilday Mortuary/Ambulance Services from downtown Long Beach. My brother and I went to high school with the teenage Dilday Brothers. Mr. Childers was the contracted driver for the old White Pontiac 2 door Ambulance. This allowed me access to the spot for starting line movies. Jnaki I was able to film one of the cleanest staging and runs from the Dragmaster crew. Their SBC front mounted supercharged FED was one of best built and well protected race cars. This film clip was originally silent as were the other films. When we were all gathered at our house to view the films I had taken, the drag racing sounds, vocally, were all made by the attending teenage friends, to the laughter of all others. RRR,RRR,RRRRRRRR…etc. ha! But, since that time, as tech has advanced, I was able to digitize the films, but still did not have sounds that I could use. So, the 1959 purchased LP Album was sitting on my shelf, I also had that digitized and this allowed me to use the sounds from exactly the racers I needed from my silent films. Now, the added sounds are the exact match from the original racers, only a few months apart. I filmed in the Spring/Summer of 1959 and the recorded sounds came from the same racers that had attended the 1959 U.S. Nationals in September at Detroit, Michigan. Original sound from the Dragmaster FED race car. Note: During our build of the 672 292 C.I. SBC supercharged motor phase, my brother had thoughts of putting the motor in something else, completely different. He liked the safety build of the Dragmaster chassis and components. Who wouldn’t if the Dragmaster FED was sitting just steps away from us in our section of the Lion’s Dragstrip pits. Our motor was top mounted as theirs was front mounted, but the fit would be simple and easy for us. It would have been a larger puzzle to fit together with the same care and understanding we had when we put together the new 292 c.i. 671 supercharged, SBC motor from little parts to completion. It would have been a “bolt-in” case if we had picked up the chassis components. YRMV This is what that future would have looked like, but painted in a Red color.
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