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I still dream you (Kids in America)

AA/FD Sorry you've heard this before, my favorite AA/FD, I never got to see. They were gone by September of 1966. I went to my first drag race June of 1968. From Santa Monica, California "The Surfers" Skinner, Jobe & Sorokin. Tom Jobe with fingers in ears at Bakersfield

 

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Reelin' in the Years

AA/FD No ID. But for sure it's Irwindale. Wheels up, tires smoking. Very cool 1966

 

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Long may you run

AA/FD Run to the fence kids "The Scoundrel" AA/FD of the Sandoval Brothers, with the great Gary Gabelich in the seat

 

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Faded Memories (I'm sorry "Invader Bitch")

AA/FC Found this in Drag Racing USA Magazine, the picture had no caption. I don't remember "The Invader" having a Camaro body.
Was Glen Salano and Dick Olsen still partners? Was this some other deal? Was "Mighty Mike" Van Sant or Bobby Smith (really) or
someone else in the seat?

"Invader Bitch" protecting her 1,335 drag racing hatpins

 

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People in Motion

AA/FC How about the 1970 AMC Javelin nitro flopper "The Nutcracker" with SoCal veteran Gary Read in the seat. Gary would go on
and have a pretty good top fuel career

 

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Washing out the Years

BB/FC I love the Alky Cars! 1977 Winter Nats and from "The Prairie State" it's Pat Cress in the seat of "Chicagoan" Mustang BB/FC

 

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Wings over America

AA/FC 1972 at Tulsa and in the bleach box Wayne Wilder's "Phantom" Vette, with Paul Gordon in the seat (I think). But for sure Mart
Higginbotham's "Drag-On" Vega in the far lane. You think Wilder was trying to keep the Vette glued to the ground? I dig it

 

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Northwest Explorer

AA/FD From Washington State it's Glen Foster in the seat. I remember seeing Glen race back in the 70s, but I don't think I ever saw this Top Fuel dragster of Bill and Claire Stammerjohan, if I did, I don't remember

 

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Funny how time flies

AA/FD From Chicagoland, but the "The Greek" is in the seat at Bakersfield

 

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And now the best years have come and gone

AA/FA Here's one for the short wheel base, guardrail to guardrail fans (me too). Johnny West in the seat "Plan A" BBC Fuel Altered

 

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My Generation and Learning to Fly

AA/FC From Drag Racing Proto Greats Magazine. You've heared this before, sorry. One of my favorite AA/FC when I was a kid in 1971 (12 years old) saw the car a couple of times at Seattle. From SoCal it's the "Sopwith Camel" Cuda with Gordy Swearingen in the seat

 

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Cast your fate to the wind

AA/FD It's 1980 and from Sydney, Australia it's Mario Mariani in the seat. In late 1978 Mario came to the states (SoCal) and bought this brand new chassis (Roller) and the rest is history.

 

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From the Beginning

AA/FC With the rear tires hazing and the front wheels in the air. From Dauphin, Pennsylvania it's the "USA-1" of Bruce Larson

 

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The smoke shall rise again

AA/FD It's 1972 and "Fearless Fred" Mooneyham is in the seat of his and dad Gene's "California Cajun" fuel dragster. Nice burnout

 

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March to a different drummer

AA/FC From SoCal, Warren Gunter "Durachrome Bug" VW nitro flopper. I never saw the bug run. What I heared it crashed once at OCIR, won a funny car meet at New England Dragway and then burned to the ground and never rebuilt. It was ill handling at best

 

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Don't know if there were more than one over time but the guys at Famoso Speed Shop found and restored the Durachrome Bug a couple of years ago and display it often.

129K views · 1.9K reactions | Is this the world’s coolest funny car restoration? Randy Winkle and the Famoso Speed Shop gang have restored the famed Durachrome Bug formerly raced by Warren Gunter. This car is not just a showpiece, it’s being raced ag

Is this the world’s coolest funny car restoration? Randy Winkle and the Famoso Speed Shop gang have restored the famed Durachrome Bug formerly raced by Warren Gunter. This car is not just a...

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Don't know if there were more than one over time but the guys at Famoso Speed Shop found and restored the Durachrome Bug a couple of years ago and display it often.

129K views · 1.9K reactions | Is this the world’s coolest funny car restoration? Randy Winkle and the Famoso Speed Shop gang have restored the famed Durachrome Bug formerly raced by Warren Gunter. This car is not just a showpiece, it’s being raced ag

Is this the world’s coolest funny car restoration? Randy Winkle and the Famoso Speed Shop gang have restored the famed Durachrome Bug formerly raced by Warren Gunter. This car is not just a...

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I was going by what racers told me, and you know as the years go by, the story gets better. I did some research. There was 2 car's.
One did crash at OCIR.

The Durachrome Bug

Warren Gunter's Durachrome Bug Funny Car of the late 1960s and early 1970s was emblematic of the class' evolving nature; no experiment or idea was too radical, no gimmick too out there in the pursuit of bookings and fan interest.

www.nhra.com

 

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As the days get shorter

AA/FC The Ohio based nitro burner of Jeg Coughlin, with the late Dale "The Snail" Emery in the seat

 

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Double shot Friday, No ID, AA/FD Forever, Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)

AA/FD Pretty sure it's Gainesville

AA/FD For sure it's Lions

 

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Turn around and there gone

AA/FD No ID. With the laundry out, and the goggles off. Maybe some oil escaped in the lights?