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Turn Back The Pages

AA/FC Pee Wee Wallace in the seat "Black Stang"

AA/FC Fantastic under the lights shot. The "Mongoo$e"

AA/FD From NorCal it's Frank Martinez

AA/FD One of my favorites, the late Dick LaHaie

AA/FD Nothing like a BBC on nitro. The late Jim Bucher in the seat

AA/FD "Dean Engineering" with Gary Cochran up

AA/FD Don Moody in the seat

AA/FD From Washington State it's Gary Beck. No he wasn't from Canada
his wife was. His partner, Ray Peets was from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

AA/FC Roger Lindamood's "Color Me Gone" plastic fantastic

 

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Night Time is the Right Time

AA/FC Black racer Clarence Bailey in the seat "King Cougar"

AA/FC Bill Smallwood in his Chevy Vega body flopper

AA/FC Under the lights it's Dennis Geisler "Hindsight" rear engine funny car at the Dale

AA/FC Pisano & Matsubara with Sush Matsubara behind the butterfly steering wheel

AA/FC Henry Harrison in "The Vulture" Cuda body funny car

AA/FC Just another "Jungle Jim" shot

AA/FC Mike Halloran in the seat

AA/FC The "Ace" taking on Dick Bourgeois

AA/FC Lou Arrington in "Brutus" Pontiac Firebird body flopper. "Jungle" in the far lane

AA/FC Night Time is the Right Time. Those funny car pilot's always
get the chicks

 

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When Will I See You Again

AA/FD "Kansas John" Wiebe in the seat

AA/FD Wayne King in the seat

AA/FD Moody, Zeuschel & Fuller

AA/FD Connie Swingle in the seat. Ed Pink's dragster

AA/FD No ID. For sure it's the Beach

AA/FC Just another fire burnout. This time with Russell Long in the seat. Charlie Proite's flopper

AA/FC From the Great Northwest it's Mike Miller in the seat of his "Boredom Zero" Mustang
body flopper. Maybe just maybe the coolest name for a nitro funny car. I wish I still had my
t-shirt from 1975. That baby has been worn and done for years

AA/FC Another Northwest favorite. The late Gordie Bonin. Chevy Monza body creation

AA/FC Tommy Grove getting off the strip and into the grass

AA/FC 64 Funny Cars gone forever, but not forgotten

 

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A little of this, a little of that

AA/FC Tom Prock photo shoot 1973

AA/FD The late Mike Snivley and the Hawiian photo shoot

AA/FC The late "240" Gordie Bonin mixing
up a fresh batch of the yellow stuff

Drag Racing girls, Linda and Eloise. I'm lost for words

AA/FD Under the lights, at Irwindale. Jim Bucher in the seat

AA/FD No ID in the lights

AA/FD No ID Looks like Fontana

AA/FC From the Northwest (Oregon) it's Kenny Goodell

AA/Fuel Hydro... Even are friends on the water, like to blow there shit up

AA/FD No ID What a fantastic shot!

 

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And time waits for no one, and it won't wait for me

AA/FC The late Gary Gabelich in the seat

AA/FC Braskett & Burgin with Gary Burgin in the seat

AA/FC Dave Bowman in the "California Stud" rear engine Chevy Vega Wagon

AA/FC Dale Pulde in Mickey Thompson's Ford Pinto nitro flopper

AA/FC Whipple & McCulloch Plymouth Cuda body plastic fantastic

AA/FD Tommy Ivo vs Larry Dixon

AA/FD Sarge Arciero in the seat, Lewis Bros. fuel digger

AA/FD Charlie Molder in the seat

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AA/FD Hirata & Hobbs with Phil Hobbs behind the butterfly steering wheel

AA/FD Danekas Banks Bowman with Ron Banks in the seat

 

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Tomorrow Never Knows

AA/FD Don Johnson's digger with Bob Muravez in the seat

AA/FD The "Brewmaster" with Jimmy Messenger up

AA/FD Nice night shot. TV Tommy Ivo

AA/FD No ID looks like Englishtown

AA/FD Ray Marsh in the seat

AA/FC Mike VanSant in "The Invader" Be careful the Invader Bitch is watching you

AA/FC "Bob Banning Dodge" Tom Sneden in the seat

AA/FC Mike Dietrich having a bad day at OCIR

AA/FC Just "Jungle Jim" at night

AA/FC Foster's King Cobra Ford Mustang body nitro flopper

 

[Cliff]

Mike Dietrich - bought this car from Big Jim Dunn. Painted it yellow and away he went. I saw him run this car at the old Irwindale. What ever happened to him?

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Mike Dietrich - bought this car from Big Jim Dunn. Painted it yellow and away he went. I saw him run this car at the old Irwindale. What ever happened to him?

My March 1973 issue of Drag Racing USA, like you said Cliff, Mike bought the flopper from Dunn early 1972 and
retired by the end of the 1972 season. I remember the picture was in a number of drag rags back in the day

 

[TSK]

I love seeing pictures of the vintage Invader Corvette.
Thanks Jim.

 

[Al]

My March 1973 issue of Drag Racing USA, like you said Cliff, Mike bought the flopper from Dunn early 1972 and
retired by the end of the 1972 season. I remember the picture was in a number of drag rags back in the day.

If I remember correctly, there was mention and video of him in the Funny Car Summer movie

 

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I've Seen All Good People: a. Your Move, b. All Good People

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AA/FD Dave Beebe in the seat "Beebe & Fedak"

AA/FD Randy Allison in the Allison Bros. digger, the year is 1973

AA/FD The "Great Expectations" of Jim & Alison Lee. Tom Raley in the
seat at Englishtown

AA/FD Once again it's Jim & Alison Lee with there first rear engine dragster
having a bad day. Tom Raley was in the seat. He walked away.

AA/FD No ID at OCIR under the lights, the year is 1968

AA/FD The late John Mulligan in the seat "Beebe Bros. & Sixt" fueler

AA/FC "Broadway Freddy" DeName in the seat at OCIR

AA/FC Nice under the lights shot. Shirley in the seat. If you don't know who
Shirley is, what are you doing here?

AA/FC Bob Pickett in the Pete's "Lil Demon" Dodge Demon body nitro flopper

AA/FD Drag Racing Photo Greats Magazine 1970. Fantastic night shot, the late Gary Ormsby
in the seat at Fremont 1969

 

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Long before the internet, we had magazines. Here is a very small sampling of my collection.
I would be here for weeks, posting every magazine.

 

[Cliff]

I remember almost all of these cars and magazines. What I really miss is how many tracks we had in SoCal back then and the shows they put on. Going to Lions & seeing 16 T/F and 16 F/C. Or OCIR and seeing T/F, F/C & Combo Elim. Was like going to a national meet every month. Sigh....

 

[Oldwino]

I remember almost all of these cars and magazines. What I really miss is how many tracks we had in SoCal back then and the shows they put on. Going to Lions & seeing 16 T/F and 16 F/C. Or OCIR and seeing T/F, F/C & Combo Elim. Was like going to a national meet every month. Sigh....

Those were the days. Gotta add Irwindale to the mix. Seems like you could get a great show every week.

 

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More fantastic magazines, from days gone by

 

[Cliff]

Who was the woman in the top photo? You remember the story of the guys from New York, Richie Bandel? They bought a T/F car & the photog was gonna shoot photos of it. Woman comes along who worked in a bar next door and they asked her to pose w/ the car. She did. Scroll down in this article & you'll find out who she was.

Surfing Safari, Part 2: The Surfers, the Hawaiian, Hondas, and Jim Morrison (!)

Words of admiration and old stories keep rolling in after the passing of Tom Jobe, resulting in some more touching tributes and interesting stories about the fabled Surfers Top Fuel team of the 1960s.

www.nhra.com

 

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Who was the woman in the top photo? You remember the story of the guys from New York, Richie Bandel? They bought a T/F car & the photog was gonna shoot photos of it. Woman comes along who worked in a bar next door and they asked her to pose w/ the car. She did. Scroll down in this article & you'll find out who she was.

Surfing Safari, Part 2: The Surfers, the Hawaiian, Hondas, and Jim Morrison (!)

Words of admiration and old stories keep rolling in after the passing of Tom Jobe, resulting in some more touching tributes and interesting stories about the fabled Surfers Top Fuel team of the 1960s.

www.nhra.com

Her name is Diane Gardner, no other information in the artical (photo shoot) about Diane.

I had no idea who the girl was on the cover with the Bandel brothers, until Aug, 2018 watching the
The Surfers #47 and I'm a huge Doors fan, you learn something new every day. And for the magazine
it is one of the rarest of all Drag Racing magazine and highly collectible. Last week June 13th one sold on
ebay for $81.00 and it had issues with the front and back covers. My Drag Racing magazine with Pam
on the cover is in pristine condition for being 56 years old. I would easily give it a 8 out of 10. I got it
in 1971. A company called Newport Productions in Costa Mesa, CA would have adds in Drag Racing USA
magazine, they sold everything drag racing from posters, calendars ect. For a $1.50 plus .50 cents for
postage and handling, they would send you 5 back issues of Drag Racing magazine. You never new
what you were going to get. Thank you Mom!

 

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Still...You Turn Me On

AA/FD Gary Gabelich in the seat "Purple Gang"

AA/FD Tommy Ivo just another fire burnout. He did a lot of them over the years

AA/FD From Alberta, Canada it's the "Royal Canadian" of Gordon Jenner

AA/FD "Ramchargers" Leroy Goldstein in the seat

AA/FD From NorCal it's Jim Davis

AA/FD Leland Kolb in the seat at Lions, Summer of Love 1967

AA/FD Under the lights with Larry Faust in the seat

AA/FD "The Loner" in the seat, the late Tony Nancy

AA/FD Oh my it's "The Surfers" All three have passed on. I will never forget

AA/FD It's 1969 and the Goo$e in the seat

 

[mike]

Your welcome Chase

Chase Mike kosky here 412 221 248two could you give me a call lost your c-phone #

 

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Fanfare For The Common Man

AA/FD "Wild Bill" Alexander in the seat at OCIR

AA/FD Yikes, I don't think this digger is going to race again

AA/FD Remember when AA/FD had to be pushed back from the burnout, Don Moody
in the seat

AA/FD Fantastic night shot "The Greek" at Fremont

AA/FC My favorite driver "The Ace" in the winner circle at the Dale 1972

AA/FC Norm Wilcox having a bad day in the "Hawaiian" 1975 at Ontario

AA/FC The late Roger Glenn in the seat "Frantic Ford" mustang body nitro flopper

It's summer time, we will say hi to are friends on the liquid quarter mile

BFH Ed Hyder in the seat "Mud Hen"

BFF Spooky is right! Blown Fuel Flat Bottom on nitro. These
boats we're the Fuel Altered's of the liquid quarter mile 1977

BFH Throwing the clutche out and the bell housing is getting ready
to take flight...bitchin