the golden age

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=28120837630854541&set=gm.1750753562769139&idorvanity=319578812553295

very very 60s flower painted on the bugcatcher!

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a 13 foot long slingshot motorcycle dragster... thank you George!

the Pacers car club slingshot, shop truck, tow truck and Pontiac... quite a fine photo!

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the difference between running a hemi on gas, and NITRO

1st time I've ever seen a Gurney Weslake in a slingshot dragster!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220747459716623&set=gm.2450304588496110&idorvanity=527146584145263

Once there was a time when drag racers could build anything that wasn't mentioned in the rules... then Vance Hunt pissed off the rule makers, and they made a new rule: "If it does not say you CAN do it, you CAN'T"

This is really a twin engine dragster... that is some fuel go-cart engine that spun the blower. I shit you not. The belt came off and that's when the dragster was put on the trailer.

Why? To win in the "twin engine" class they once had. 

At the AHRA Labor Day Weekend Nationals in 1961, they had a field of over 32 cars qualifying for the 32 car "A" fuel class. They had three or four cars for the "AA" twin engine class. In eliminations, the twin cars made two runs and then waited for us to make five runs and use up our engines. The two classes met in the final. That didn't seem fair to me.

I decided in 1962 to run the AA class. I got a fuel go-cart engine from a friend, adapted it to the front of my 392 Hemi, and sat down with a rulebook to make it legal. I covered it up with a blanket so as not to cause a problem until qualifying started.

We made the first round of qualifying and my driver JL Payne ran a very good pass with both engines. We pulled back into the pits and in about six or eight minutes, Tice showed up and he was so mad. He said, "Take it OFF." I told him that his own tech people said it met every rule in the book. He said, "If you run "IT," your car will RED LIGHT!"

I took the engine off and won the race that year. This is one of my deals that worked out OK. I won the race and got my point across. After that, we didn't have to race a bunch of also-ran cars after the real race to get the money.

Early the next season, Tice brought me the new rulebook and told me that it was written for me -- on each page it said, "If it does not say you can do it, you can't."

https://www.draglist.com/stories/SOD%20Feb%202002/SOD-022102.htm

thank you George!

a T Bucket obsession facebook page is loaded with cool hot rods

https://www.facebook.com/modeltobsession

imagine if any adult only sport was this focused on trying to get young people with no money to emulate it... lol, what a goofy time the 60s were

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-38#post-13336724

cool photo

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/traditional-images-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-27#post-13221439

wouldn't it be cool to have one for the swap meet!!

loving the big Dodge push truck too

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=801127778690247&set=a.717965483673144

gotta love a matched set

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the dragster and trailer were located in 2020

https://www.motortrend.com/vehicle-genres/dean-moons-aa-fuel-dragster-found-43-years/

the 1961 NHRA US nats

Wes Allison photographed the Nitro Revival at Irwindale

see the whole gallery at https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/nitro-revival-photos-epic-shots-from-the-most-bad-ass-nitro-celebration-ever/

built by Don Long

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2022/10/what-family.html

Bristol Dragway in June of 1965

 

Look at the rims... that's unusual!

John Holman and Honest Charlie

http://blog.virginiaclassicmustang.com/2020/05/bristol-spring-nationals-june-1965-drag.html

Spokane 1959

 http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php?topic=5202.2145

Mickey Thompson only needed 2 cylinders and moxie, to set speed records. He didn't even have a damn CNC to mill parts. He didn't have computers to work out fuel maps, etc.

 

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I wish this fit the banner shape better

https://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1248#post-3397627