Gone Dead Train
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Cliff
Remember in the early 70s when some of the Funny's tried canard wings.
Here is SoCal's Jeff Courtie with canards in front of the rear tire. I LOVE IT!!!
Good Looking Nitro Flopper!
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Remember in the early 70s when some of the Funny's tried canard wings.
Here is SoCal's Jeff Courtie with canards in front of the rear tire. I LOVE IT!!!
Good Looking Nitro Flopper!
Jim Irvin and Cliff Morgan; 1/3 of the way down from the top, the no I.D. car that Cliff guesses wrong in his post right after is no doubt the "OLD MASTER" of Ed Pink, it's not orange, it's pink !
Don Long car, with non mistakable 4 radius rod front end, and also front wing stand!
Don Long car, with non mistakable 4 radius rod front end, and also front wing stand!
Gone Dead Train
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Les Cassidy in the Cassidy Bros. 1977 Chevy Monza AA/FC at Englishtown
Cliff Brown "The Chicago Kid" AA/FC
From SoCal it's Steve Leach AA/FC 1977
Once again the best ever! Drag Racing USA
Paula Murphy AA/FC at Atco, NJ
Bill Lawton in the seat, 1969 Tasca Mustang AA/FC. Is there someone named Tasca
racing today?
Joe Clement AA/FC
Dean LaPole in his AA/FC
Photo spread from Hot Rod magazine
Less then one hour drive East of me. It's Cle Elum, Washington Mike Miller AA/FC 1973
Gone Dead Train
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I think this is Richard Holcomb? AA/FD It is Bee Line in Phoenix 1976
AA/FD Pilot Dennis Baca with the late Barbara Roufs who appeared in
a number of Drag Racing magazines in the early 70s
The late Clayton Harris AA/FD 1972
No ID
Dave Chenevert in the seat. Robert Anderson AA/FD 1975
Dave Edstrom AA/FD 1972 Doing his best at being a Roman Candle
Gary Ritter in the Blood Sweat & Nitro AA/FD 1970
No ID at Indy
Mike Snivley in the Hawaiian AA/FD 1967 at OCIR
Again a big thank you to all people who worked at putting together all the
fantastic magazines of days gone by. And of course the Photographers!
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Gone Dead Train
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Me too Nunzio Me too. Just glad I saved most of my issues
Al
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Me too ! I looked forward to every new issue. It was a great magazine. I still have a good sized stack of old issues that I read from time to time
Dragracer
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In 1975 Force was on fire quite a few times.
Gone Dead Train
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LOL He was on fire off and on for next 20 years after 1975. But he's done pretty good too, ok not bad
Still think Force could boot a Nitro Flopper down a gravel road!
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Twig Zigler AA/FC at Pomona. Pizza Haven was a pizza restaurant chain here
in Washington State and maybe Oregon in the 70s. Nothing to write home about.
Dennis Fowler's "Rat Trap" AA/FC 1973
The late Roger Garten AA/FC
The ill fated 1968 Cadillac Eldorado AA/FC of Dave Zachary. The info I have
Zachary was killed, when car crashed and the cage failed.
From Drag Racing Proto Great magazine 1973 It's Bob Pickett AA/FC
learning to fly at OCIR. Broke his back but was back in 1974
Photo shoot Drag Racing USA Magazine 1972
Billy Meyer AA/FC
Just a nice shot. Mr. Minick new how to do burnouts!!! I think B&W photos are cool
Pisano & Matsubara Vega AA/FC
Ray Alley in his 1971 Plymonth Duster AA/FC
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The self proclaimed king of the Northwest. Jerry Ruth AA/FD 1976
"Circuit Breaker" AA/FD 1979
Larry Brown AA/FD 1976
Gary Read in the seat of the "Over The Hill Gang" fueler 1977
1973 PRA race at Tulsa, OK
Dennis Baca AA/FD 1970
Bob Downey in the seat, Don Madden's AA/FD 1969
Just another Drag Racing Magazine centerfold
Kelly Brown AA/FD 1969
NO ID
TopFuel@Lions
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See those packed out stands at Lions watching Zachary in the boat?
TopFuel@Lions
TopFuel@Lions
Gone Dead Train
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Chris Lane in the the seat "The Phoenix" AA/FC
Gary Dyer in the "Mr. Norm's Charger" AA/FC 1973
The Snake in black
Funny Cars at Irwindale
Gary Burgin going bang. AA/FC
How to to cook a Goo$e. From the pages of Super Stock & Drag Illustrated
"Nasty" Dave Benjamin AA/FC
Don Schumacher 1971 Cuda AA/FC. Check Don out trying to see the tree
must be a hanging tree? at OCIR
Kelly Brown in the seat "Mr Ed" AA/FC
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One of the greatest BB/FC ever!
Preston Davis in the seat AA/FC
The Ace in his 1977 Plymonth Arrow AA/FC
Wayne Stoeckel in his Monza Body BB/FC
Photo shoot for Drag Racing USA magazine
No ID
This AA/FD has to be running a open rear end
Bob Neil having a bad day in Arnold Birky's AA/FD at Pomona
Taken from one of my Popular Hot Rodding magazine center fold
Great Pro Comp match up Ken Veney BB/FC vs Ben Griffin in the Carroll Bros. A/Fuel Dragster 1977
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Another shot of my all-time favorite AA/FD Don Moody at the beach 1972
Ric Uribe AA/FD having a blower going south
Rance McDaniels in his BBC on nitro AA/FD
Sarge Arciero in the Lewis Bros. AA/FD Mike Lewis works for DSR now
Snake on fire 1971
St. Moritz AA/FC at Indy
The late Frank Hall in the late Jim Green's "Green Elephant" AA/FC from Washington State
The late Gary Gabelich 4 wheel drive rear engine vega station wagon on nitro. This is the first and
only run, crashed end of story
Not sure what what Jungle Pam is up to. But more photo's would have bin nice!!!
Joe Winters launching the body at Fremont. Great shot
from Steve Reyes. From Drag Racing photo greats magazine
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i loved the Veney's Vega. Still looks cool today. I think the Birkey Bunch car was the car Jeb Allen drove at Tulsa - the one he had the wreck w/ John Wiebe in. I know Birkey bought that car & changed the way it looked (front spoiler). Ben Griffin had a killer injected nitro F/C Mustang. Saw it run at Lions Last Race. The Carroll Bros car may have been their T/F car.
I remember Don Moody going 5.91 in that car at Ontario in late 1972. Low ET of the World! Could not believe how quick that car ran.....
I remember Don Moody going 5.91 in that car at Ontario in late 1972. Low ET of the World! Could not believe how quick that car ran.....
Gone Dead Train
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I don't think that's Jeb's old car, that is Pomona 1989. Don Moody picture, July 1972 Div 7 race. The one and only
time I went to Lions
1972 was a year when the ET's just kept getting quicker & quicker. started off at Lions with Snake & Wiebe both supposedly going 6.17; Garlits at the Gators 6.15-243 and went from there. Cars started getting into the 6.0's. Jerry Ruth 6.06 at Indy that year. Ivo ran that (infamous) 5.97 in the middle of the year. Some believed it & some didn't, but the Cragar 5 second Club had him as the first member. Then Ontario. Mike Snively the first NHRA '5" and then Moody at 5.91, which held for awhile. I was at that race & everyone was running so quick. That's one of the races you don't forget.
