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Once in a Lifetime

AA/FC It's July of 1972 and the NHRA Div 7 race at Lions. The one and only time I went to Lions. I was a 13 year old kid from Washington State and a big thank you to my big sister, she was hip, still is at almost 78 years old. We are just out of the picture, to the right. One of my all-time favorite AA/FC. Pat Foster in the seat of Barry Setzer's Vega, just bitchin

 

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Another Day

AA/FD Down under and at Surfers Paradise Raceway, it's Peter Dykes in the seat of his Ampol GT AA/FD (Service Stations)

 

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Comes in Colors

AA/FD 1965 at Bakersfield and Mike Snively in the seat of Ed Pink's "The Old Master" fuel digger. Gone But Not Forgotten!
Mike was runner-up both days at the 65 March Meet

 

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It's just the normal noises in here

AA/FC Fantastic night shot. "Ramchargers" Dodge Challenger flopper, with Leroy Goldstein sitting behind the butterfly steering wheel

 

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Another trip to Oz

He is in the ANDRA Hall of Fame, Australia drag racing great Jim Read in the seat of the AA/FD that he bought from the team from the USA of Cohon, Oswald and Velasco. Here in the States it was driven by "The Worlds Fastest Living Kamikaze Pilot" Dave Uyehara

 

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Another trip to Oz


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He is in the ANDRA Hall of Fame, Australia drag racing great Jim Read in the seat of the AA/FD that he bought from the team from the USA of Cohon, Oswald and Velasco. Here in the States it was driven by "The Worlds Fastest Living Kamikaze Pilot" Dave Uyehara

Sweet! Jim Read is awesome...

 

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People in Motion

AA/FD From NorCal, it's Bill Wishart's AA/FD with Bill Alexander in the seat. But what's really cool is the car in the far lane getting more nitro after the burnout, at Fremont. I remember seeing this a few times back in the day

 

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People in Motion


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AA/FD From NorCal, it's Bill Wishart's AA/FD with Bill Alexander in the seat. But what's really cool is the car in the far lane getting more nitro after the burnout, at Fremont. I remember seeing this a few times back in the day

Sometimes that is when they would add hydrazine as well !

 

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The Pusher

AA/FD No ID. On these pair of AA/FD, ready to be pushed started and do battle on the 1320. The younger viewers on here, it was part of the show. I miss it

 

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For a change

AA/FD For a change, let's trip back to the early 80s. Air race pilot Frank Taylor decided he wanted a Top Fuel dragster to go along with his "Dago Red" race plane (below). He put Rocky Epperly in the seat and the car set a new NHRA speed record at 257.14 MPH at OCIR in 1983

 

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Faded Memories

AA/FC McCord & Ormsby, Gary Ormsby in the seat of the Vega body flopper and his partner was a 15-year old kid named Dan McCord. My November 1973 issue of Drag Racing USA had very little information on Dan, so I went looking. This was it, ND editor Phill Burgess did a artical on 1970s Funny Cars 8 years ago. "Quote from Phil" Nothing I can find explains where McCord got the money to help build a (then) $25,000 Funny Car. Must have been one hell of a paper route he had. End of quote