Sunday will never be the same... (5 Viewers)

That is how I felt when Firebird, now Wild Horse, opened, 1984 I think. Reminded me so much of OCIR except for the tower. Pits laid out the same way. Was soooooo glad AZ had a modern strip.
 
We ran our first Alterd at stardust, buck jones drove the car, when speeddrome opened me and my brother ran our new car there, Thanks Chris for bringing up the speedways history, lot of good memories for me
 
TopFuel@Lions said:
Chris, you ever go to Stardust? I loved the Speedrome, went about 15 times, mostly the excellent Division 7 shows.



TopFuel@Lions
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No, the Stardust was long gone by the time I got to Vegas in 1994. I believe the Stardust closed in 71 or 72 ... I wasn't born until 74. :D
 
Just some ramdom pictures I did not use when I started this
thread, couple of weeks ago. Stored on file around 200 plus
pictures. I don't see me using my son's computer gear anytime soon.
A real hassle to move from house to house, and set up. And teach
the Dumb Ass (that would be me) how to use.
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Steve Tansy vega panel wagon AA/FC 1973
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John Hoven AA/FC with Tom Ferraro in the seat 1972 Lions
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Jim Robbins AA/FC from Texas. Other than that. I no nothing?
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Butch Claunch Nitro Burning Flopper 1974
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SoCal's Jim Terry AA/FC 1974
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AA/FD Chuck Griffith 1967 OCIR
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Ronnie Hampshire AA/FD 1965 looks like Carlsbad,CA
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No ID It's OCIR for sure, maybe 1968?
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No ID
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Gary Cochan in Carl Casper's "Young American" AA/FD 1970
I remember building this model in 1971. Wish I still had it.
 
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Jim Nicoll AA/FD 1970
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Kenny Safford in the seat of the Gotelli Speed Shop AA/FD 1969
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"Little" Tommy Larkin OCIR 1969
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The Sundowners AA/FD at Atco,NJ 1973
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Frank Bradley AA/FD Pomona 1978
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Bob Williams AA/FD 1975 Tossing some parts!

The next four shots. Connie Kalitta running a wedge body AA/FD at Indy 1971
The end result, he never ran another wedge body fueler.
And Oh, one more thing Connie walked away. Hay he's Connie!!!
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The guy right behind the Marathon sign was an NHRA worker. I think maybe Phil Burgess did an article about him in the Wedge series he ran on Insider. He survived, but I bet his shorts were a bit stained! arghh
Also noticed the photo of Chuck Griffith in the Starlite, the engine is a Ford Cammer. That was an old car, saw it run one year at Winternats in Pomona with a Chrysler. I think the car was built when they still smoked the tires & converted over to the slipper clutch. I never went to the Winternats until 1969. Was in Air Force 1964-68, so missed a lot of stuff. I think the '69 race was when I saw the Starlite & it was run out of the Pomona Valley Timing Ass'n.
 
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Nice Blower
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John "Tarzan" Austin Fuel Digger chucking the blower 1974 Gator's
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Jim Murphy in the seat AA/FD 1973

Next 3 shots. Davey Uyehara having a bad day at the old track in
Las Vegas. They didn't call Davey The Fastest living Kamikaze Pilot for nothing!
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Frank Bradley lights one up
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Old hand out of mine. Garlits doing a publicity shot
in 1972 for the US Navy.
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Just another fire burnout. Larry Bowers 1972
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Flip Schofield 1974 at Irwindale
 
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"Flash Gordon" Mineo AA/FC 1974
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"Cha Cha" 1970
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The late Kenny Goodall trying to turn himself into a chrisspy critter
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Call today before it's gone
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Another photo that goes with the photo on page 4
Photo shoot for Drag Racing USA Magazine
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Marv Eldridge in his nitro burning Corvette Funny Car
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Harlan Thompson in the "Tom & Jerry" AA/FC chopping down the tree
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Jerry "The King" Ruth AA/FC
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Gene Conway 1969 Firebird AA/FC
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Don Johnson's Monza body AA/FC on the beach
 
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The late Mike Snivley in the Hawaiian AA/FD 1967
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No ID, But it's Irwindale,CA
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No ID Cool shot AA/FD OCIR 1970
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Jim Dunn's "Rainbow car" near lane vs Kelly bown 1968
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From Oregon it's Cordy Jensen "Bev's Steak House" AA/FD 1967 at Puyallup,WA
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From The Great Northwest. Green Dragon AA/FD 1966 Puyallup,WA
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The late Mike Sorokin in the seat "The Grecian" AA/FD 1967 Irwindale,CA
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The late Raymond Beadle in Prentiss Cunningham AA/FD at the
NHRA World Finals. Amarillo,TX 1971
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No ID It looks like Fremont in the lights. Check out the front wheels
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Not a bad AA/FD entry list. Do you agree?
 
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SoCal's Jeff Courtie AA/FC 1975
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From Oregon Wendall White AA/FC 1975 at SIR Seattle
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This is the AA/FC that would end Gas Ronda's career. Nasty oil fire.
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Colorado's own "Hells Cargo" Mustang body AA/FC
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The "Hindsight" rear engine Nitro Flopper. Dennis Geisler in the seat

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Pat Foster driven "Damn Yankee" Funny Car. Both owner and driver gone RIP
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LiL' John Lombardo Plymouth Cuda body Nitro Funny Car.

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Larry Chrisofferson on fire
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Some guy named John Force 1975. I wonder what ever became of Force?
Check out John's hand going for the parachute lever
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The AA/FC of Fred Goeske burning to the ground
 
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Jeff Courtie got his start in nitro w/ a Woody station wagon, an Olds at San Fernando. Had a blown Chrysler on nitro and ran maybe 10's? Saw it run a few times. He went to F/C after that.

Trivia: Jeff was born in Liverpool, England.
 
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Cliff said:
Jeff Courtie got his start in nitro w/ a Woody station wagon, an Olds at San Fernando. Had a blown Chrysler on nitro and ran maybe 10's? Saw it run a few times. He went to F/C after that.

Trivia: Jeff was born in Liverpool, England.
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Jeff is a frequent poster on another Drag Racing message board
 
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AA/FD Larry Frazier 1974
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Pat Dakin's Fueler 1974
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AA/FD Leland Kolb 1974
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The late Paul Longnecker having a bad day 1973
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Danny Ongais in the seat of the Vel's Parnelli Jones nitro digger 1974
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Jack Revelle AA/FD 1975 at Dragway 42 Ohio
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Mike Reynolds Top Fuel airing it out 1979 Winternationals

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Gary Cornwall on fire at Fremont,CA 1976
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Dennis Baca AA/FD 1976 at OCIR
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One of my all time favorite AA/FD from Washington State Rob Bruins in the seat
of Gaines Markley's 1979 car. The 1979 NHRA Top Fuel World Champion
 
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