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  1. t walgamuth

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    #126 t walgamuth, May 20, 2007
    that early ford pickup was not frome he sixties in that picture at least. the rear tires are too wide.....aren't they?

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    #127 AnotherDunneDeal, May 21, 2007
    True, it looks to be a recreation of an early racer but missed the specs.
     
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    #130 Horsefly, May 22, 2007
    Good to see the Hemi Under Glass. Somewhere deep in my archives, I have an unbuilt model of it. At some point in time, the body got painted a very light coat of blue, but the rest of the parts are still new on the "tree".
     
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    #131 of2worlds, May 22, 2007
    When you see the wheelstanders run it is amazing how effortlessly they pick up the front end and just balance it there...
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    #132 bannedleader, May 23, 2007
    ............isn`t "Wild Bill" Shrewsberry supposed to standing through the
    windshield opening ??
     
  8. t walgamuth

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    #133 t walgamuth, May 23, 2007
    was bill the one with the hemi under glass?

    i remember reading that with that car there was a trap door in the floor to watch the track through.

    tom w
     
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    #134 bannedleader, May 24, 2007
    ....is in The " L.A. Dart" friggen looney- toon received a life time ban ( Hey I had one of those )!!! from the N.H.R.A. for his "standing out the windshield hole" stunt.
     
  10. 2NA

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    #135 2NA, May 24, 2007
    Wheelstanders were a hoot. I always liked hearing the announcer give the mph at the end of the run. Always a gross exageration (150+) the car probably never broke 80.
     
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    #136 t walgamuth, May 28, 2007
    along about 1964 or 65 i went to the national drags at irp once with my future BIL who had passes since his dad was a high ranking state police officer.

    we had a pass to climb the tower at the finish (iirc) line and watched for a good while from the top.

    in those days they were hitting the traps at about 175 i think in top fuel. the slicks were narrow and pretty hard and they spun them off the line. between the engine's smoke and the tire smoke the start tower pretty much disappeared. the noise was pretty loud too.

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    #137 AnotherDunneDeal, May 28, 2007
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    In 1964 it was low 8's about 195. I enclose some photos from 1962 thru 1965 for your enjoyment. I am sure it was very difficult to get any visibility at all looking past the supercharger through the smoke. Actually you had to pick a point at the end of the strip and keep it in you view. It was impossible to keep it straight by looking anywhere close.

    1 Crossley Williams Swan 1964 Winternationals-Pomona
    2. 1964 Nationals Indy
    3. 1964 Nationals
    4. 1964 Nationals
    5. 1964 Nationals
    6. 1964 Winternationals
    7. 1963 NHRA Nationals program 33 1/3 LP record jacket
    8. 1962 dragster taken through a windscreen
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    #139 t walgamuth, May 30, 2007
    it looks about how i remember it.

    i am not sure if my memory of the speeds is off or the year.... maybe both!

    thanks for sharing.

    tom w
     
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    #140 Lee in Texas, May 31, 2007
    Speaking of bans-
    Anyone remember Brent Fanning and his "Udder Nonsense" firebird f/c from the early '90s? It was painted like a Holstein dairy cow (Brent was a dairy farmer). At the Texas Motorplex in 1993, he had a tray under the car that held a pile of cow turds. The cow pie was supposed to slide out when he launched and leave a nice pile on the line, but he got into severe tire shake and left cow crap everywhere. He got a 6-month ban from the NHRA...LOL.
     
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    #141 AnotherDunneDeal, May 31, 2007
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    Found some more "oldies". Do any of you remember any of these guys. This goes back almost to the very beginning of drag racing......


    1. Bob Brissett twin flathead 1955 Smokers meet
    2. Don Hampton twin engine Fiat altered
    3. Herbert Cam Special Bakersfield 1959. Look at that crazy reverse mounted supercharger on the front of the engine.
    4.Jack Chrisman Howard Cam Twin Bear. Denver 1959
    5.Lloyd Scott, Bustle Bomb, Santa Ana 1955
    6. Original Sidewinder, Bakersfield 1959
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    #142 AnotherDunneDeal, May 31, 2007
    That is one I do not remember. I will have to try to find more info on it........

    I can see that it caused a real "stink" with NHRA.

    http://nhra.com/50th/news/headlines.html?year=1993

    Go to the month of September. It says here that it was released from his parachute pack just before the $50,000 shootout run......
     
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    Pretty advanced for 1959. Who built it?
     
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    I really do not remember but it looks like Rod Stuckey (famed racecar chassis builder) is watching from the background, Here is another sidewinder. This one was built by Zane Schubert and was a twin engine car. He only campaigned it for a very short time as it had a bad habit of spinning and trying to run through the traps backwards. He eventually cut the car up with a torch and sold it for scrap............
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    #145 AnotherDunneDeal, May 31, 2007
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    I viewed your profile and saw under other cars owned "rocket powered go-kart. I saw a turbine powered kart run at Green Valley years ago. It ran in the 10's. Do you know anything about the other jet or rocket powered karts?

    Here is a photo of a jet powered MR2 that is absolutely crazy. I cannot imagine sitting in front of this mess of tubing........
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    Are you into anything like this?



    1. Rocket powered go-kart driven by Paul Best did 248 mph in quarter mile.
    2. Rocket powered dragster driven by Kitty Oneill to 3.22 et at 412mph in 1977 to world acceleration record.

    Hmmm, Kitty Oneill not responding will try again.......
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    #147 2NA, May 31, 2007

    Pat Best (not Paul) is a friend and lives near me. His go-kart is in a museum in Australia now. He used to do a side by side rocket go-kart show with George Lavigne. George lost control and hit a guardrail in Kaukauna, Wisconsin in 1977 at over 150 mph (no rollcage, no seatbelt) lost an arm and leg in the crash. He was conscious until he bled out. This was as sad as it gets!

    Kitty Oneill is also a friend and for a while about 15 years ago lived about 2 blocks away. She was a Hollywood stuntwoman that got hooked up with a stuntman (Ronald "Duffy" Hambleton, search Robert Blake murder trial) he got her into driving. She set a number of records and traveled the drag racing exhibition circuit in the late 70's. She is an interesting person but has been exploited by people for most of her life (deafness and a trusting nature are a dangerous combination). I haven't seen her in years, the last time she was basically penniless and living in a motel.

    I have hundreds of photos from the 70's of various rocket and jet cars and the people associated with them. I also have some stuff from some motorcycle jumpers including a crazy called "The Human Fly" that tried to jump 26 school busses with a rocket motorcycle in the Montreal Olympic Stadium in 1977.

    I'll try to start scanning them and maybe start a new thread.
     
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    #148 AnotherDunneDeal, May 31, 2007

    Cool, I will look for the new thread. I found these photos at The Rocketman website. It has quite a few photos with some interesting stories about the various rocket powered things on display, rocket powered wheelchair, luge, sled, go-kart just to name a few...........
     
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    He lives about a mile away. We've known each other over 30 years. The only person I know who never leaves the house without photo albums.
     
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    #150 AnotherDunneDeal, Jun 6, 2007
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    Jack Chrisman drove it. I believe it was Joe Maliott (sp?) who owned it. Chassis by Rod Stuckey. Ran low 9's, mid 150's back in '59. Chrisman said it was probably the hardest leaving car he had ever driven, "just squatted down and went....". There is also some discussion as to whether Kent Fuller might have been the chassis builder. He had over 250 different cars he built chassis for during his heyday......
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