Sunday will never be the same... (1 Viewer)

[TSK]

I was given this poster yesterday by one of the drivers whose car is on the list shown.
He also got Snake and Mongoose to autograph it for him.
Check out the admission and pit pass prices. As you say, those were the days.

 

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Trippin' out in the "Plastic Fantastic Forest"

AA/FC "The Ace" in the seat

AA/FC It's Saturday night at Lions with the "Mongoo$e" up

AA/FC "The Jungle" at night

AA/FC Jim doing a bitchin smokey burnout

AA/FC Once again, one of my all time favorite nitro floppers. Gordy Swearingen in the seat

AA/FC And yet another favorite for this 13 year old kid in 1972. The late Danny Ongais
in the seat

AA/FC Oh um, just another fantastic burnout from the "Chi-Town Hustler"

AA/FC Bob Banning Dodge doing it's best to cover the strip in Akron fallout. Tom Sneden in
the seat

AA/FC Beware of "The Invader" bitch

AA/FC Charlie Therwanger in the seat "Hombre" Vega body nitro flopper

 

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No BS or name calling on this thread

AA/FC It's 1975 some guy named John Force in the seat. This is the year I would see John for
the first time ever (I was 16 years old) at Seattle 64 Funny Cars

AA/FC Just a great under the lights shot, Al Hanna in the seat

AA/FC Tom Prock in the seat. I think his son and two grandson's are doing alright in
the sport of drag racing. I think?

AA/FC "White Bear Dodge" The late Tom Hoover in the seat

AA/FD No ID could be Kenny Sanford?

AA/FD Bill Dunlap in the seat.

AA/FD No ID love the Christmas Tree, miss that tree

AA/FD No ID but for sure it's 1964 and having problems up front

AA/FD From the Great Northwest it's Jerry "The King" Ruth

 

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The Story in Your Eyes

AA/FC Bud Kirby in the seat

AA/FC "Flash Gordon" Mineo in the seat, got this poster back in 1972 or 1973

AA/FC "The Snake" in black

AA/FD & AA/FC keeling & Clayton photo shoot

AA/FD George Hutchinson "The Stone Age Man"

AA/FC Fantastic night action. Mr. Sush Matsubara in the seat

AA/FD Gary Beck at Seattle

AA/FD The Goo$e in the seat

AA/FD Photo shoot, Drag Racing USA magazine. The late Tony Nancy

AA/FD "TV Tommy" getting sideways on the burnout

 

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Under the Lights

No captions needed, pretty much self-explanatory, that's if you been around drag racing
for the last 50 plus years. Me, my first drag race of year (2024) May 18th at Pacific Raceway.
I will have been going to the drags for 56 years (8 years old 1968)

 

[z28]

Under the Lights

No captions needed, pretty much self-explanatory, that's if you been around drag racing
for the last 50 plus years. Me, my first drag race of year (2024) May 18th at Pacific Raceway.
I will have been going to the drags for 56 years (8 years old 1968)


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Heros of my youth CKC from San Antonio Tx

 

[none]

Keep em coming my friend! Much appreciated!

 

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Twice Removed from Yesterday

AA/FC From Pennsylvania it's Bruce Larson

AA/FC Dick Bourgeois in the seat

AA/FC "Flash Gordon" Mineo Pontiac Firebird body flopper

AA/FC Gene Conway in the bleach box

AA/FC Photo shoot "Strip Blazer" Malcolm Durham from Washington, D.C.

AA/FD From Bremerton, Washington it's Herm Petersen in the "Beach Imports" fuel digger

AA/FD The Snake, with the wedge body off the car. Check out the headers glowing red

AA/FC, AA/FC, AA/FD Proto shoot, Gene Snow, Jake Johnston and Chip Woodall

AA/FD The Mongoo$e come in at you

AA/FD From SoCal it's "Mr. Ed" Willis owner, not sure who is in the seat?

 

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What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

AA/FC "Color Me Gone" Roger Lindamood

AA/FD Good Lookin fuel digger, Rick Ramsey in the seat

AA/FD Carl Olson vs Frank Bradley many moons ago

AA/FD The "El Lobo" doing it's thing at Lions

AA/FD Gettin' it on at Carlsbad

AA/FD "The Greek"

AA/FC Gettin all fours off the ground

AA/FC A young Kenny Bernstein in the seat

AA/FD From Washington State, the late Hank Johnson

AA/FD The late Walt Stevens in the bleach box

 

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They Only Come Out at Night

AA/FC It's1976 and Prudhomme in his 2nd of 4 years of reign of terror on the funny car class

AA/FC "240" Gordie Bonin in the seat

AA/FA Here is one for the short wheelbase fan's (me too) Burkholder Bros.

AA/FC From the pages of Elapsed Times magazine. The best drag rag since Drag Racing USA
We got the Goo$e and Bob Pickett bringing them forward at OCIR

AA/FD Fantastic night photo shoot

AA/FD It's 1967 and Jerry Ruth at night, at Lions

AA/FC Run to the fence kids, it's the "Chi-Town Hustler" at night

AA/FD "Kansas John" Wiebe coming out of the bleach box

AA/FC "Professor" Kelly Chadwick teaching night school

AA/FC "Durachrome Bug" Night time is the right time for nitro!

 

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Memories in bits and pieces

AA/FC Twig Zeigler backing up, after a smokey one at Pomona

AA/FD Clayton Harris in the seat

AA/FC "Brand-X" flopper of Sien & Lankford

AA/FC Tommy Ivo having a bad night

AA/FD The Goo$e and Carl Olson at Bakersfield

AA/FD Fred Mooneyham in the seat of his dad Gene, fuel dragster

AA/FC "Quickie Too" of Bill Levitt

AA/FD Hippo & Poindexter AA/FD not sure who is in the seat

AA/FD No ID, wheels up and the rear tires smoking and heading for the lights. Bitchin

AA/FC Stone-Woods & Cooke, could be the late "Mighty" Mike Van Sant in the seat?

 

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Do You Remember?

AA/FC It's the "Atlas Oil Tool Special" Ford Maverick body, Pat Foster in the seat

AA/FD "Ramchargers" heading for the lights at Detroit

AA/FD On the rollers at Lions. I think it's Larry Faust in the seat?

AA/FC Dave Bowmans "Calif Stud" rear engine Vega body flopper

AA/FC Mike Mitchell in the seat "The Hippie"

AA/FD No ID, great shot, could be the late Leland Kolb in the seat?

AA/FC From Washington State, it's Mike Miller

AA/FD From 1972 it's my all time favorite rear engine digger. Don Moody in the seat

AA/FD The "Snake" photo shoot. Hot Rod magazine, Nov 1962

AA/FD I will close this post out with one of my all-time favorite
fuel racer's, Dick LaHaie

 

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Photo Shoots. Write your own caption
Some alky cars, thrown in for good measure

 

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And I've given up hope
on the afternoon soaps
and a bottle of cold brew

AA/FC From the East Coast, it's black funny car pilot Lee Jones in the seat

AA/FC The "Trojan Horse" with Larry Fullerton in the seat

AA/FC The "Shoe" in the seat and the chute out

AA/FC Ok, I'm going to try to remember this deal. I never saw the car run. I believe the year is
1979 and think the flopper only ran a handful of times with the Playboy Magazine livery on it.
And I think Jim Adolph is in the seat.

AA/FC For sure it's 1973 and for sure it's Jim Adolph in the seat, trying to turn himself into a crispy critter

AA/FD It's 1965 and relaxing by the pool

AA/FD No ID on this great smokey pass down the 1320

AA/FD Run to the fence kids. We got two of the best fuel diggers of the late 1960s heading for
traps at Beeline Dragway

AA/FD No ID it could be the "A & W Root Beer Special"

AA/FD Gerry "The Hunter" Glenn in the seat

 

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Ain't no cure for the "Summertime Blues" well, maybe nitro.

AA/FC From the Eastern Seaboard, it's the Cassidy Bros. Les & John with Les in the seat

AA/FD I think it's Dave Uyehara in the seat. Hey, I'm new to the sport, give me a break

AA/FD The Snake in the seat

AA/FD Tommy Ivo in the seat

AA/FD Yes I know, this picture has been around for years, but it's worth another
look. Larry Bowers unloading the bellhousing, clutch, flywheel etc.

AA/FC Tom and a lady friend

AA/FC Just another Mongoo$e vs Snake drag race at the Dale

AA/FC The good old days!

AA/FD Jim Nicoll in the seat

AA/FC "Big Mike" Burkhart wheels up

 

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Turn Back the Pages

AA/FC "Miss STP" Paula Murphy

AA/FC It's Dickie Williams Trans Am body flopper, with Clayton Pool in the seat

AA/FC Photo shoot. The late Phil Castronovo & Tom Prock

AA/FD Connie at Beeline Dragway

AA/FD No ID, for sure it's OCIR, great picture. Dig those header flames

AA/FD "K&G Speed Associates" fuel digger with Ron Rivero in the seat

AA/FD From the Sunflower State, it's John Wiebe

AA/FC Ill fated from day one, enough said

AA/FC The Blue Max through the years, not all, but some

AA/FC My favorite Jim Dunn flopper. Built this model way back in 1972

 

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Will Sunday ever be the same

It's late 1975 and early 1976. Gary Demsham and John in Australia

 

[TSK]

Very impressive Jim.

 

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South California Purples and other colors

AA/FC Omar "The Tentmaker" Carrothers in the seat

AA/FD Jim Dunn in the seat

AA/FD From north of the border, it's Terry Capp

AA/FC One of my all time favorite floppers, when I was 13 years old. Pat Foster in the seat

AA/FC From the pages of Popular Hot Rodding Magazine, it's Mike Mitchell

AA/FC From the Northwest. Mike Cyr in the the seat. Skipper's Fish & Chips fuel flopper, ate
there many times in the 70s and 80s. Not bad at all.

AA/GD Do we have any Top Gas fans looking? One of the best "Freight Train"

AA/FD No ID. Great picture. For sure it's Lions, 1964?

AA/FD No ID. Sending the blower rotors into orbit

AA/FD When push start goes wrong

 

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What a drag it is getting old

AA/FD Under the lights at Irwindale, it's Tony Nancy

AA/FC Photo shoot. The late Willie Borsch

AA/FD Jim "Superman" Nicoll in the seat

AA/FD The late Les Allen

AA/FC The Pisano Bros. Chevy Corvair body nitro flopper. This beauty would take on the OCIR
guardrail and lose

AA/FD Photo shoot. Tommy Ivo

AA/FC Gene Snow at Carlsbad

AA/FC Just another photo shoot, this time it's Shirley

BB/FC Not a nitro burner, but one bad ass alky flopper and pretty too! Brad Anderson in the seat

AA/FD From the pages of Drag Racing magazine. August 1966