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

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Those days are gone forever, over a long time ago

AA/FD Tripping out, back to 1965. Zane "The Beard" Shubert in his nitro guzzling Chevy powered AA/FD

 

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Those days are gone forever, over a long time ago

AA/FC Real paint, sure beats the hell out of wrap jobs. Clean looking Vega funny car with Norm Paddack in the seat

 

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Happenings ten years time ago

AA/FC Good looking funny car, Pisano & Matsubara with Sush Matsubara in the seat

AA/FC Even in the later years, Joe had great looking funny cars. It's 1990 at Seattle. The pretty Oldsmobile body
flopper with Glenn Mikres sitting behind butterfly steering wheel

 

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Happenings ten years time ago

AA/FD Crew member with bleach bottle in hand and who I think is Don Ewald in the "BankAmericar"
at Beeline Dragway.

 

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Happenings ten years time ago

AA/FC With the butterflies wide open and the front wheels off the ground, "Mr. Chevrolet" Dick Harrell heading
for the lights at Irwindale

 

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Happenings ten years time ago

AA/FC From the days of the "Frantic 4" AA/FD to the "Frantic Ford" AA/FC it's Ron Rivero in the seat

 

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Happenings ten years time ago

AA/FC "Trojan Horse" Kevin Doheny & Larry Fullerton always had hard running and good looking AA/FC

 

[glofria]

Larry Fullerton Jr. is working to recreate this funny car when time permits.

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Sunday will never be the same...

AA/FC "It's Gas" One thing I've noticed over the years, looking at my old drag racing magazines.
Gas Ronda's AA/FC always seemed to have the front wheels off the ground. Bitchin

 

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Tripping back in time

AA/FD It's 1970 and Duane Ong in the seat of his "Pawnbroker" AA/FD. Who new what was coming next?

 

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Tripping back in time

AA/FC Pretty sure it's one of my all time favorite funny car driver. Dale Pulde in the seat of Mickey
Thompson's Ford Pinto AA/FC getting all four off the ground. Bitchin

 

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It's a hump day double shot

AA/FC The 1970s was a great time to be going to the drags, it was funny car heaven. Pete Everett's "Pete's Lil' Demon"
with Dr. Leroy Hales in the seat

AA/FC From SoCal it's Dave Bowman "California Stud" Mustang flopper

 

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A little of this a little of that

AA/FD From Fort Wayne, IN Larry Sorg in the seat

BB/FC One bad ass BB/FC. "Bad" Brad Anderson in the lights at Pomona. Brad's hand on the parachute lever. Cool

AA/FC Al Segrini in the seat, Faberge "Super Brut" funny car

AA/FD One of my all time favorites Dick LaHaie

AA/FC Larry Google & Paul Smith "Entertainer" with Mr. Smith in the seat, taking on "Rapid" Roy Harris
at Milan Dragway many moons ago

 

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A little of this a little of that

AA/FC Dick Bourgeois in the seat "Doug's Headers" Vega body funny car

AA/FD Not much more to say about this beautiful AA/FD. Rick Ramsey in the seat

AA/FC From Funny Car Pictorial Magazine a great photo (I think so) underneath the OCIR tower and a
blanket on the windshield to keep the dew off. Ray Zeller owned "Midnight Skulker" Stan Shiroma in the
seat

AA/FC SoCal's own Andy Clary, Ford Maverick nitro flopper

AA/GD Just another bad ass car from back in the day. This time around John Peters "Freight Train" AA/GD with Floyd
Lippencott Jr. hiding behind the smoke

 

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Tripping back in time

AA/FD It's the 1976 NHRA Fallnationals Seattle. Tom Christenson in the seat "Sunny Jim" fuel dragster. I was there, I don't
remember this car (I was 17 years old, that could explain why I can't remember...Yikes)

 

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Tripping back in time

AA/FD 1966 at Carlsbad Raceway, Lou Baney's "Brand Ford Special" with "The Mongoo$e" Tom McEwen in the seat


The hat pin fairy dropped off these two new pins a week or so ago. Bill Jenkins and Gordie Rivera Monza Pro Stock

 

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Ten Years Gone

AA/FC "The Utica Flash" is at Pomona. Phil Castronovo's "Custom Body" AA/FC with Tom Prock in the seat. Sure has been
a lot of talk about the Prock family lately.

 

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This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide

AA/GD The late Walt Stevens in the seat of Ken Theiss "Odd Couple" AA/GD. Chevy engine and a Chrysler engine.
I remember reading years ago that they started the Chevy first, because after they started the Chrysler, they couldn't
hear the Chevy running. Stevens won the 1971 Winternationals in this car.

 

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I need some alcohol, to get me through

AA/DA or Top Alcohol Dragster, whatever you call them, one of my favorite classes in drag racing. It's the late Mike Troxel
in the seat "Mighty Mouse" alky digger, having a bad day

 

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All things must pass

AA/FC It's 1982 John A Martin "Jam-Air Special" not sure who is in the seat. Henry Harrison originally drove the Corvette
funny car till John got his licence sometime in 1982. Sadly both John and Henry have passed. Thank you for the great
memories at Seattle in the 1980s

AA/FC Speaking of Henry, it's 1983 Harrison & Lidtke clean Firebird body flopper, love this car. And who is
the guy in the far lane? Did he ever amount to anything?