wth?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=537149950155026&set=g.674239962722623&type=1&theater&ifg=1

Sportmanship award for Jim Dunn and Al Yates, the Green Mountain Boys with Linda Vaughn at the Patch in 1966.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/943376445791958/photos/?filter=photos

streamlined dragsters that were evolutionary dead ends

those are some strange front rims

http://georgeklass.net/dragsters.html
http://taylor3502.rssing.com/chan-67326881/all_p2.html

Antique Doll, bought for $200 by a 17 year old in 1974. It had been racing in Top Elimniator at Lions and other So Cal dragstrips. You probably spent more than that on your last cell phone

https://www.rodauthority.com/features/car-features/rod-authority-rewind-diary-of-a-dragster/

Pushing to the finish line for the win. Rules can be pretty stupid sometimes

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1577099452436665/


26-year-old Doug Robinson was the lucky and unlucky recipient of a solo advancement into Round Two of Mickey Thompson’s 52-car 200-mph Club Invitational after scheduled opponent John Batto failed to fire and Robinson’s own engine flamed out. Standard procedure dictated that winning drivers cross the finish line under their own power.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/nascar-bans-426-hemi-sohc-ford-launch-wild-1965-racing-season/

what's the connection between So Cal surfer music and supercharged 4 bangers?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/9214138/The-vibrations-will-be-good-even-if-the-Beach-Boys-are-old-men.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1570029076477036/

a very unique dragster..... the Hawaiian

One car that stands out in Top Fuel from more than 50 years of winners and losers, and that is the Hawaiian dragster of Roland Leong from the mid-1960s.

It did something no other car/owner combination has ever done, by winning both the 1965 and 1966 Winternationals, but then also winning both the 1965 and 1966 NHRA Nationals.

Winning the two biggest national events on the NHRA calendar is reward enough, but winning both back-to-back has been too difficult to repeat so far in the annals of drag racing.

 Another back-to-back oddity was coming back from both their 1965 and 1966 Nationals win, the towing rig crashed.

The dragster was shipped to Europe for the Coca Cola Cavalcade of Stars, and ended up at the National Auto Museum in Turin, Italy, where it has reposed for decades, though numerous individuals from the U.S. have tried to buy the car.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/the-one-and-only-time-this-happened-in-nhra-winternationals-history/

Even though the trailer has white walls, it's still cool looking

http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/page/6

Good parachute photos are not easy to find, and to find one in stars and stripes is even harder, thanks Will!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2000763166624975&set=a.950708041630498.1073741826.100000739329267&type=3

Dang shame that the photographer wasn't trying to get the car in the photo from the very front to the back of the trailer

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156182466537295&set=gm.1414932431986702&type=3&permPage=1&ifg=1

Stoned hippies once asked questions like "what is the sound of one hand clapping" .... well, this is the photo of one tire spinning

http://bikeintheshop.tumblr.com/page/98

Bobby Langley had 5 or 6 evolutions of his "Scorpion" dragster, and they all had interesting tails, noses, or pinstriping

http://www.wagtimes.com/mr012917.html
http://www.carshow-photos.com/Scorpian_Dragster.htm
http://georgeklass.net/dragsters.html

Glory days

https://www.facebook.com/bigidol.org/photos/a.1167869513239599.1073741830.479755005384390/2070681646291710/?type=3&permPage=1

Paul Sutherland’s fire mask got even cooler after dark, when a red bulb illuminated the nose tip.

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/nascar-bans-426-hemi-sohc-ford-launch-wild-1965-racing-season/

a vintage drag car collection just turned up in Hot Rod

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/troy-byrds-epic-collection-drag-racing-relics/

all the pieces were here and there all over the farm, ever since the slingshot was retired in 1964. It was gathered up and put back together for this photo shoot when it sold recently

the front wheels were mounted on 1942 Harley-Davidson military motorcycle wheels, and they are still on that dragster... that is way cool.

the chassis was outside, and a tree had grown through it, the block was on one side of the barn, and the heads were on the other. The Weiand Drag Star intake manifold and six Stromberg 97 carburetors were inside his garage since 1964

long before rat rodders started using conrods to hang steering columns, this one was used as a motor mount on this 150 mph A/Gas dragster that ran 60% nitro. It's from a Ford flathead for the 1.599-inch rod journal. The main framerail was 1-5/8-inch round tubing.

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/hemi-powered-front-engine-dragster-unearthed-50-years/

a man, a plan, a dragster, a truck to haul it with. Just add friends and nitro

https://www.facebook.com/groups/getting.there/

Hemi digger getting some much needed attention after decades of storage

I look at this and I hear Bill Cosby's skit about 200mph around a tree line "PIPES! Chrome PIPES!"

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I964 Allard Dragon kit car Shorrick blown 1500 Ford engine and some band

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