These have to be some of the most wicked pictures ive ever seen, some just leave ypou speechless looking at the history and where this sport really started in my opinion!
Hugh Tucker's AA/SR. A killer car. Actually a '28 Chevy body. The engine, a blown Olds at this point came out of Dave Stoll's ski boat. This car copied the "trick" quarter-eliptic rear leaf spring system that was on the Stone-Woods-Cook Willys. How many of you guys ever heard of the B&M 4-speed Hydro-Stick transmissions?
Both hands on the wheel this time for Willie. This wheelstand is in the lights at over 200 MPH, and he's a little crossed-up, and he's near the edge of the track. Note the tire beads on the slicks pulling away from the wheel. A day in the life in the AA/FA class.
The Bustle Bomb. This car is in Garlit's museum. And Olds and a Caddy for power. The front engine had a trans. The rear engine would "bump start" (like in push start) in high gear as soon as the car started going forward. Did you ever notice that they rarely tallked about ET in the early days. That's because most tracks had MPH clocks only, no ET clocks.
When I was in high school, if you knew how to weld, and how to scrounge pipe out of the local scrap yard, you could build a dragster like this for under $1000.
What I wouldn't give to have that '29-A roadster. The '27-T would be nice too. This is Fremont drag strip. The San Fran bay area had two good tracks, Fremont, on the inland side of the bay, and Half Moon Bay on the coast. I loved them both and went to many races there. Sometimes we would run our dragster on Saturday at Lions or Irwindale, and then if we had some nitro left, tow up to the bay area over night and run at Fremont on Sunday.
One of the reasons that jet dragsters were banned from drag strips for many years, is that they would go just as fast upside down, sometimes winding up in the stands.
This is Glenn Leasure in Romeo's jet dragster. They took this car to Bonniville in '62 or '63, can't remember which. Anyway, Glenn lost his life when the car cartwheeled for several miles at over 300 MPH. His body got stuffed through the engine and basicly was vaporized. We had to walk the course for miles picking up all the parts from the car and throwing them in the back of a pick-up truck. I picked up this funny looking part and looked at it for a long time before I realized it was a piece of jawbone with a couple of teeth attached.
Not very many fuel dragster drivers had mustaches in those days. They would continue to burn until you nose burned off.
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