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Kids in America

AA/FC It's 1970 and Tim Beebe and his brother Dave team up to run the "Dodge Fever" Clallenger flopper. Tim decided to go funny car racing after the loss of John "The Zookeaper" Mulligan at Indy 1969

AA/FD Beebe & Mulligan with "The Zookeaper" in the seat

 

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Celluloid Heroes or Whatever happened to Saturday Night

AA/FC Built this model back in 1972 or 1973, I can't remember. It's a bitch getting old, anyway it's the Vega (real paint no less) from SoCal of Pisano & Matsubara with Sush Matsubara in the seat

 

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The Trip (Well Kinda)

AA/GD or Top Gas, whatever you call it, very cool. The late Walt Stevens in the seat "The Gas Company" blown gas slingshot

 

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Washing out the Years

AA/FC It's 1968 and "Dyno Don" Nicholson is in the seat of his 1968 Mercury Cougar funny car, with a nice wheels up launch

 

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Time Stands Still

AA/FC From Lake Orion, Michigan and sitting in the bleach box in Atco, New Jersey is Della Woods and brother Bernie's "Bernella's Funny Honey" Dodge Challenger plastic fantastic

 

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People in Motion

AA/FC It's late 1969 at OCIR and Ron Rivero in the seat "Frantic Ford" Mustang fuel funny car

 

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Your guess is as good as mine

AA/FD No ID. Found this in one of my boxes full of drag racing odds and ends. The picture is on copy paper and the only thing I'm 99.9% sure of, it's the old track in Las Vegas, Stardust Drag Strip

 

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Twice Removed from Yesterday

AA/FC From EL Cajon, California, it's the late Randy Walls in the seat of his 1970 Chevy Nova flopper. It makes me sad that I have to put late on pictures that I post, but glad I remember these drag racers from when I was a kid. Momories last forever

 

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Leg it Out

AA/FD From the pages of Drag Racing Magazine "Ramchargers" fuel dragster with Chuck Kurzawa in the seat and in the far lane is, I think is the Bivens & Fisher "Checkmate" with Tom McEwen, I think

 

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Time Slips Away

AA/FD I don't remember this car, but being a kid from the Northwest in the 1960s and 70s there was a ton of fuel cars that could race and stay close to home. It's 1973 and from Div 4, Ed Kelly in the seat of Bob Holley's fuel dragster

 

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Out of the box

AA/FD It's Saturday night and the AA/FD of Glenn & Schultz is coming out of the bleach box with Gerry "The Hunter" Glenn in the seat

 

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Crime of the Century

AA/FD No ID. Found this picture in one of my boxes of drag racing odds and ends. Winternationals 1965 or 1966 is my guess. I remember getting sent to study hall, High School 1976 and I cut this picture out of a magazine, maybe Life Magazine? Thank you Mount Si High School Snoqualmie, WA

 

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A Higher Place

AA/FD It's 1966 and from the pages of Hot Hod Magazine. Fantastic shot of the "Hawaiian" with Mike Snively in the seat

 

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Welcome to the thread, where time never moved on

AA/FC From Bellflower, California it's Gary Densham in the seat of his "Teachers Pet" Firebird body flopper at Indy 1979

 

[She's a Faker]

Welcome to the thread, where time never moved on


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AA/FC From Bellflower, California it's Gary Densham in the seat of his "Teachers Pet" Firebird body flopper at Indy 1979

Take Me Back (and leave me there) . . .

 

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Welcome to the thread, where time never moved on


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AA/FC From Bellflower, California it's Gary Densham in the seat of his "Teachers Pet" Firebird body flopper at Indy 1979

Indy ‘79 was my first NHRA national event. I went Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Talk about nitro overload.

 

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Take Me Back (and leave me there) . . .

Get back to where you once belonged - John Lennon / Paul McCartney

Suzanne, when we were talking this morning about are AA/FD, we are getting there. I scored some Hydrazine...WooHoo

Just remember what I told you..."Leg it" and "duck"

AA/FD It's 1970 at Irwindale and a second or so later the car would take on the guardrail in the far lane. Tom Toler in the seat. Tom was just fine, the AA/FD not so much. From the pages of Drag Racing Photo Greats magazine

 

[She's a Faker]

Get back to where you once belonged - John Lennon / Paul McCartney

Suzanne, when we were talking this morning about are AA/FD, we are getting there. I scored some Hydrazine...WooHoo

Just remember what I told you..."Leg it" and "duck"


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AA/FD It's 1970 at Irwindale and a second or so later the car would take on the guardrail in the far lane. Tom Toler in the seat. Tom was just fine, the AA/FD not so much. From the pages of Drag Racing Photo Greats magazine

Let's Go!

 

[LAZYC]

Get back to where you once belonged - John Lennon / Paul McCartney

Suzanne, when we were talking this morning about are AA/FD, we are getting there. I scored some Hydrazine...WooHoo

Just remember what I told you..."Leg it" and "duck"


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AA/FD It's 1970 at Irwindale and a second or so later the car would take on the guardrail in the far lane. Tom Toler in the seat. Tom was just fine, the AA/FD not so much. From the pages of Drag Racing Photo Greats magazine

That car was owned by Charlie Tolbert (RIP) "Tolbert & Toler" a neighbor of mine back then (North Hollywood CA.), also Tom Toler (Driver) was also a neighbor of mine for a time after I hung it up and moved away from NH.

Charlie later teamed up With Bill Potts on a rear engine top fuel car ,SPE, Carter Paint, Bill Potts worked for Bill Carter for a while and later opened his own paint shop in the west San Fernando Valley.