Sunday will never be the same... (9 Viewers)

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Faded Photographs

AA/FC Meyer & Rogers. Not sure who is in the seat, if it's Billy Meyer or Grover Rogers. They used the same Div 4
number 415, Billy would later change to Div 4 number 420

 

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Washing out the years

AA/FC Oh my, it's 1969 and the "Engine Masters" Mercury Cougar body flopper of Ray Alley, with a young Kenny Bernstein sitting
behind the butterfly steering wheel at Beeline

 

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The Trip

AA/FD Jim and Alison Lee "Great Expectations" Alison making sure her and Jim's good friend Tom Raley is snug and cozy before
the trip down the 1320. Sadly all 3 have passed. Wonder if the cop is digging the drags?

 

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Pleasant Valley Sunday

AA/FD Bruce Wheeler "Wheeler Dealer" with, I think is Al Friedman in the seat. But for sure the AA/FD is having traction woes. Check
out the left and right slicks

 

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Moving Pictures

AA/FD Fantastic picture. Under the lights, it's Don "The Beachcomber" Johnson and Tom "The Mongoo$e" McEwen AA/FD on a Saturday night. Gone Dead Train, this one is for you

 

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My Generation

AA/FD It's 1972 and the brand new and yet to be painted fuel dragster of Mike Kuhl and Carl Olson. Carl in the seat

 

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If the walls could talk

AA/FC It's "Miss STP" Paula Murphy in the seat of her Duster body flopper. I had this fantastic photo hanging on my bedroom wall, who knew 50 plus years later I would be posting it on a thing called the internet (Nitromater)


Photo Extra...another bedroom wall hanger. It's 1970

 

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Thanks, now I see where Valley Head Service was put on Paula Murphy's car. Dad said he always dealt with the husband.

Interesting that only one parachute on board but two chute packs.

 

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Gino thanks, I see the Valley Head Service now too, very cool! I don't think two parachute's was mandatory back in the early 70s

 

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Welcome to the thread, where time never moved on


"Double Shot Thursday"

AA/FD From Fountin Valley California, Tom "The Mongoo$e" McEwen giving us the "The V" for victory sign

 

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As the years go passing by

AA/FC From Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania "Rapid Roy" Harris and his "Brutus" Mustang body AA/FC

 

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Don't Dream it's Over

AA/FC Gervase O'Neill who grew up in Canada, before him and brother/tuner Johnny moved to SoCal to start racing there BBC powered "King Rat" floppers

 

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Fakin' It

AA/FC With the fake arm hanging on, it's "Wild Willie" Borsch in the seat of his Dodge Charger body AA/FC

 

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Washing out the years

AA/FD From South San Francisco, Ted Gotelli's "Gotelli Speed Shop" AA/FD. Not sure who is in the seat, if it's Denny Milani, very cool

 

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Living in the Past

AA/FC "Big Mike" Burkhart in the seat at Irwindale on a Saturday Night

 

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I need a change of scenery. Here you go Mary Jane

AA/FC With the hookah pipe on the hood of the Cuda body plastic fantastic. From San Francisco "The Worlds Fastest Hippie" Mike Mitchell in the seat and what looks like a coasting run in the lights at Pomona

 

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Twice removed from Yesterday

AA/FC From Dubuque, Iowa it's the 1969 Ford Mustang nitro funny car of David Powers & John Riley, with Powers in the seat. 30 plus years later Powers would own a top fuel dragster. Driven by notable drivers Rod Fuller and Whit Bazemore. And oh, the short lived Windsor Dragway. Windsor, Ontario, Canada 1968-1971

 

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Twice removed from Yesterday


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AA/FC From Dubuque, Iowa it's the 1969 Ford Mustang nitro funny car of David Powers & John Riley, with Powers in the seat. 30 plus years later Powers would own a top fuel dragster. Driven by notable drivers Rod Fuller and Whit Bazemore. And oh, the short lived Windsor Dragway. Windsor, Ontario, Canada 1968-1971

With their earlier front engine top fuel dragster they invented the first or one of the first reversers

 

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With their earlier front engine top fuel dragster they invented the first or one of the first reversers

Plus, I think experimental use of direct-drive setups in nitro floppers

 

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The Story in your eyes

AA/FD Dixon & Dunne fuel digger, with Larry Dixon in the seat. Sponsored by Los Angeles disc jockey "The Real Don Steele"