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Saturday, 3 December 2011

late 1960's early 1970's dragsters and the haulers they got rides on

all found on a thread on Moparts about Mopar haulers and the race cars... very cool stuff, two of my favorite topics http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=4135439&page=0&fpart=32&vc=1

Sunday, 18 September 2011

A new photo of the Austin Grassi Fuel Cuda popped up

top one is from http://prova275.tumblr.com/page/57 bottom 2 were found on Magnetic Brain in early 2010 http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/

Monday, 20 June 2011

Drag racing, nothing new about that. Funny car, been around 40+ years, nothing new. When the steering comes off after launch... that's new. What 2 do?

Found on http://www.dogfightmag.com/2011/06/oh-shit via via http://blog.hemmings.com/ where Dan posts great stuff all the time

Thursday, 18 November 2010

Serious setback, US Nationals Indy 1965 Jack Chrisman's Merc Comet 427 SOHC

Gotta love that Magnetic Brain http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/

Saturday, 23 January 2010

He was there, Denis Scott... and photographed the dragsters during the heyday of the early 70's, lucky!

Above from the photographer, Denis Scott, the Chi-Town Hustler driven by Ron Colson (which is featured in Mopar Action this month)... offset the driver to lower the roof because the driver wasn't over the driveshaft hump.. and was just restored and cloned. One for the museum and one for the road to tour with at nostalgia events. The Coil name in the owners.. is Austin Coil, you know, the crew chief and tuner for John Force throughout John's astounding career.

The immediately above I found on Skylar's facepage, and Denis was looking through here and let me know that he was the photographer, and filled me in a bit about his photography career, and sent me a couple more:

From Denis, "I was hired by the Chi-Town people to shoot that Hustler photo. I believe that was sponsored by Snap-on tools, I remember the Snap-on girl was there.

I was actually working for hot rod magazines then, Drag Racing USA, I did a lot for them. I was also the track photographer for Rt 30 dragway back then, can you believe that I did this attached poster in 1970!

It was a long career, I travelled all over the USA and Canada shooting big races for magazines in the glory years of drag racing, lot's of fun, but not a lot of money.
But I don't regret it, I used to drag race before all of that, my favorite car I built was my A/A 39 Fiat. These two attached photo's are of my Fiat, but not when I was racing it.
I actually seen it in the pits at the track I was shooting for a few years after I sold it, I shot it sitting there and made these photo's in Photoshop.
Come to think of it, I didn't sell it, I traded it for a 32 Ford 3 window finished street coupe, I miss that also.
This 40 Ford was mine also, why do we sell these things??"

http://www.denisscott.com/ is his website, but he already said the dragster photos aren't there (DAMN!)

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Finally, a 50's and 60's blog about dragsters, Roth, racing, 60's groovy culture, perfect hot rods, and funny cars!

George Barris made a motorized surfboard? ! ? His "Surf Woody" toured with it ont he national circuit http://www.barris.com/gallery_cars/Kustoms_HotRods/gallery_surfwoody.html it had a small Moon fuel tank, a 2 cylinder McCulloch engine

Full story on page 136 of Big Book of Barris: http://books.google.com/books?id=ATjy1tKxfjYC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=barris+surfboard&source=bl&ots=Iy2K-Kf4gr&sig=Ljw2_aOAZQSMuB5yd6UrcY96mKA&hl=en&ei=UwNKS5KSFofgsQO4mrT1Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=barris%20surfboard&f=false

She is in front of Roth's Road Agent, and she is wearing a Watson's mini skirt... a combo of customizers, and with a beehive hairdoo too... wow, what 60's!