Sunday will never be the same... (2 Viewers)

[Al]

Washing out the years


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AA/FD It's the 1977 NHRA Fallnationals at Seattle. "JET X" sponsored (see below) AA/FD of Frazier & Abbott with the late Johnny Abbott in the
seat. The Fallnationals at Seattle, from 1975 to 1980. The 1977 race was the only one I missed, started new job


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If you were going to miss one, you picked the right one. I went to the 1977 event with a bunch of friends. All was good until it started raining on and off during the 1st round on Sunday. They called the race and finished the next weekend (we couldn't stay).

 

[Gone Dead Train]

If you were going to miss one, you picked the right one. I went to the 1977 event with a bunch of friends. All was good until it started raining on and off during the 1st round on Sunday. They called the race and finished the next weekend (we couldn't stay).

Hi Al. I forgot (49 years ago) it rained on Sunday and the race was the next weekend. I was working the graveyard shift Fri, Sat and Sunday
Milwaukee Railroad, Cle Elum, WA. Hometown of Northwest funny car racer Mike Miller and maybe just maybe the best name ever for a
AA/FC "Boredom Zero" (below) saw the car crash at Seattle, June of 1980. If I remember the wheelie bars broke on the launch and the flopper
went over the guardrail just past the tree. I think it started raining right after that?

AA/FC 1980, Mike Miller in the seat. Good looking flopper

 

[Al]

Hi Al. I forgot (49 years ago) it rained on Sunday and the race was the next weekend. I was working the graveyard shift Fri, Sat and Sunday
Milwaukee Railroad, Cle Elum, WA. Hometown of Northwest funny car racer Mike Miller and maybe just maybe the best name ever for a
AA/FC "Boredom Zero" (below) saw the car crash at Seattle, June of 1980. If I remember the wheelie bars broke on the launch and the flopper
went over the guardrail just past the tree. I think it started raining right after that?



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AA/FC 1980, Mike Miller in the seat. Good looking flopper

I always liked Miller. The last time that I saw him was at the 1982 Golden Gate Nationals at Fremont. He arrived late Friday and the 8 car bump spot was already ridiculous with the Blue Max and Super Brut cars already not qualified. He left his rig parked at the gate for the rest of the weekend. That's the problem with 8 car fields (too hard to make). Hope we never go back to those.

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Time slips away

AA/FC From the Garden State, Jerry Caminito in the seat of his gorgeous Plymouth Arrow body funny car. Below are a couple of hatpins I
have in my collection after Caminito change the name of his flopper from "Hole Shot !" to "Blue Thunder"

 

[Al]

Time slips away


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AA/FC From the Garden State, Jerry Caminito in the seat of his gorgeous Plymouth Arrow body funny car. Below are a couple of hatpins I
have in my collection after Caminito change the name of his flopper from "Hole Shot !" to "Blue Thunder"


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I loved what this low-buck racer had painted by his funny car's side windows: " Driver carries no cash" !

 

[Gone Dead Train]

It seems like a dream

BB/FC From San Diego, CA one of my all time favorite BB/FC "The Beal Mobile" with Chuck Beal in the seat. Saw Chuck a number
of times in the Northwest in the 1970s and 80s. Just a great looking funny car and good running car. Long before Pro Mod was even
thought of, Chuck had the injector hat at the roof line...Bitchin

 

[Gone Dead Train]

People in Motion

AA/FD It's 1972 and from SoCal, the Allison Bros. Randy and Gary. Randy in the seat at Ontario. Good looking Woody Gilmore built AA/FD

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Just a normal day

AA/FC From SoCal, Tom Sturm (Just 4 Chevy Lovers fame) airing out his plastic fantastic Chevy Camaro

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Time Stand Still

AA/FC Oh my, it's John & Barbara Lindsay's "Impulse" nitro flopper. Saw the "Impulse" car a number of times here in the Northwest from the
late 1970s into the 80s with Ed Moore (pictured) or Bryan Raines in the seat. The AA/FC always put on a good show


Here is a short video to kill 1 minute and 55 seconds of your day

 

[Al]

Time Stand Still


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AA/FC Oh my, it's John & Barbara Lindsay's "Impulse" nitro flopper. Saw the "Impulse" car a number of times here in the Northwest from the
late 1970s into the 80s with Ed Moore (pictured) or Bryan Raines in the seat. The AA/FC always put on a good show


Here is a short video to kill 1 minute and 55 seconds of your day

I also saw them run at the 1987 Spokane "Finals" with a Corvette body that they switched back and forth with a Fuel Altered body for exhibition runs ! Probably made more runs than anybody else during that weekend !

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Turn back the pages

AA/FC From the pages of Hot Rod magazine and sitting in the bleach box is my all time favorite Jim Dunn & Joe Reath funny car the 1971
Plymouth Cuda. Built this model in late 1971 or 1972? and saw the car run once or twice back in the day. It just looked right

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Memories in bits and pieces

AA/FD No ID. I cut this picture out of a magazine (what magazine?) probably years ago. I can't remember and can't find any info
about "The Skunk" AA/FD. I'm kinda sure It's Edgewater Raceway Cleves, Ohio. For sure a bitchin bleach box for the fans, very cool

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Learning to Fly

AA/FD From the pages of Drag Racing Photo Greats and from California's Central Valley, I give you the Berry Bros. & Hughes fuel dragster with Dwight Hughes in the seat

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Scrap Metal Collection


2 post in one day...Yikes. Anywho here is 7 new pins I just got (I have know other place to post my scrap metal collection) one would think
with 1,325 pins, I would have these, nope. There is still a s**t load of pins I don't have.


From left to right
Snake pin is rare. I've only seen it 2 maybe 3 times. If you have it, please post
Tom Akers "The Wizard" BB/FC
Tom Hoover
Scott Geoffrion
Outlaws pin, I believe was a blown alky series in the late 1980s into the 90s in the Midwest? Sure looks like Frank Mazi Opel. I do have 4 Mazi
pins (see below)
Gordon Mineo
Dan Pastorini (better picture below)

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Time Passages

AA/FD It's Ontario "SuperNationals" don't know much about this fuel dragster. Brian or is it Bryan Teal, over the years I've seen his name
spelled different is in the seat and he also drove Nelson Carter's "Super Chief" fuel flopper, one of my favorite's back in the day. First time
I saw Carter's funny car at Seattle 1971, a very young Tim Grose was in the seat

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Ten Years After

AA/FD 45 plus years ago the "New Englander" long, skinny car of Rhea Goodrich and Bob Simmons (with Bob in the seat) was roaming around
the countryside. Shown here at the long closed (1979) Connecticut Dragway, it did re-open, but it was closed for good in 1985