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  1. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #1 AnotherDunneDeal, Dec 29, 2007
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    I pulled the hard drive from an old computer in the garage and look what I found. Now, this is fun for me, bringing back all kinds of memories from 30 years ago or more.

    1. Dragmaster Dart twin engine dragster, Jim Nelson 1961
    2. Secret Weapon jeep wheelstander
    3. Tom Ivo at Union Grove, early 60's
    4. Tom (Mongoose) McEwen and Linda (Miss Hurst Golden Shifter) Vaughan
    5. Tom McEwen Coors Vette Funny car
    6. Don Prudhomme and Johnny Loper vintage funny cars
    7. Walt Arfons Green Monster jet dragster, 220 mph at Union Grove, very early 60's
    8. Union Grove flag starting dragsters
    9. Union Grove flag starting dragsters again, different cars
    10. Vintage early funny car chasis
    11. Vintage Corvair funny car, Hayden Proffitt
    12. Jungle Jim Libermans house, now an antique shop
    13. Jungle Pam helping Jungle Jim while showing her best side...........

    More photos to come later. It is late and I need to go to bed
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  2. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #2 AnotherDunneDeal, Dec 30, 2007
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    Here are some more off that hard drive.




    1. Canned Heat funny car
    2. Gene Snow Charger funny car
    3. Gene Snow funy car
    4. Blue Max
    5. Jungle Jim with autograph
    6. Dick Landy Dodge Funny car
    7. dick Landy Dart Funny Car
    8. "Flash" Gordon Mineo on a rainy day
    9. Hawaiian
    10. Highway Patrol funny car complete with flashing lights
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  3. Texas Forever

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    #3 Texas Forever, Dec 30, 2007
    WOW!

    Funny, I was at MSR Houston yesterday, and we were talking about the old Can Am cars. You know, 900 HP, 900 pounds of torque.

    But compared to these cars: GREAT GAWD ALMIGHTLY! :)

    Dale
     
  4. Kravchak

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    #4 Kravchak, Dec 30, 2007
    Could you send me a High-Res version of the girl looking under the funny car... That is a GREAT photo... (and the kids these days think they invented g-strings)
    [email protected] THanks
     
  5. WJHMH

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    #5 WJHMH, Dec 30, 2007
    That's Jungle Pam, she really was something else back then.

    http://www.junglepam.com/photos.html
     
  6. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #7 AnotherDunneDeal, Dec 31, 2007
    That photo was shot in the late 60's so I have no Hi-Res available. Sorry......Look on the link above. There are a lot of great photos of her there.....
     
  8. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #9 AnotherDunneDeal, Jan 1, 2008
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    And a few more. A couple may be repeats.....



    1. Ed McCullough
    2. Plymouth Superbird
    3. Jungle Pam backing Jungle Jim up
    4. Jungle Jims view of Jungle Pam
    5. Greer-Black-Prudhomme (Keith Black and Don, The Snake, Prudhomme).
    6. Ramchargers Dodge funny car
    7. Shirley Muldowney autographed Mustang Funny Car
    8. Ronnie Sox Cuda
    9. Stephen Thomas Erlewine Ray Vaughan (How did that get in here)?
    10. 1964 National Drag races in Indy......

    A couple were picked up from a very good drag racing site, www.quartermilestones.com
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  10. Greg Scott

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  11. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #11 AnotherDunneDeal, Jan 2, 2008
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    Got a few. Anyone in particular you are looking for???
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  12. Horsefly

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    #12 Horsefly, Jan 2, 2008
    What is the "Pacesetter" car in the first pic of post #6? Any info or other photos of it?
     
  13. DIGMAN52

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    #13 DIGMAN52, Jan 3, 2008
    How about an Anglia pic. Built a model of an Anglia dragster as a kid, and still want a real one.
     
  14. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #14 AnotherDunneDeal, Jan 3, 2008
    I do not remember the type car but it was driven by Bob Bondurant in Can Am races.......I will try to find out the type of car for you,,,and me....

    April 28, 1965. Lola-Chevrolet T7 Mk 1.

    Intakes were cross-ram connecting to side draft Webers. Intakes were later sold to Roger Penske to use on his T7. Wing was added later and connected to the carburetors. Wing blew off at Riverside.........taking the carbs along...
     
  15. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #15 AnotherDunneDeal, Jan 3, 2008
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    I think I have a few more. I will try to find them.

    1. Not an Anglia but a true nostalgic gasser.
    2. King Kong
    3. Linda Ricka Anglia
    4. Lutz and Lundberg-early gasser well-knowns
    5. Lineup of Outlaw Anglias
    6. Powell Service Center- 1970's
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  16. TRScotty

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    #16 TRScotty, Jan 3, 2008
    Did you ever race/attend races at the old I-20 Dragway near Winona, Texas? I went to school there and my freind lived across the highway from the site, said it had been used as runway, etc. as well as dragstrip. I think an oil & gas company owns the property now, but the track would be worthless as it has been neglected for at least 25 years.

    In the early '90s, I ran at Cedar Creek (1/8) and Hallsville (1/4) in Harrison County.

    Friends of the family actually owned Hallsville and sold about 7 or 8 years ago.
     
  17. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #17 AnotherDunneDeal, Jan 4, 2008
    Never raced there. I ran a lot out in west Texas. Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, Hobbs New Mexice, Wall (San Angelo), Odessa, Midland and the like. Also ran at Green Valley, Dallas International Motor Speedway (Only around for about 4 years in Lewisville), and some tracks in Arizona and California but never reached Winona..........

    Abilene started out as the county airport as did Big Spring. Many of the older tracks in the beginning were airports. Fact is, I was the track record holder in my class at Pyote dragway near Pecos, Texas when it closed so I can truthfully say that I am still the track record holder there (in my class) and have held the record for 39 years. I ran there once in 1969, set the record and never went back. The track closed about 1973 or so. No one else ever had the chance to make a run at it............

    The record? AHRA Formula 7 D/SA......17.93, 81 mph..........Some record huh. It was a car I drove to the track, took the spare tire and ice chest out of the trunk, raced and loaded things up and went home.. 1958 Ford Skyliner with a 352 cubic inch V8 with a 2 barrel carburetor. That barge could not get out of its own way. I have to laugh to think it ever held a class record but how many other people do you think would actually take anything like that to a track....But, I was young and dangerous and wanted to race. I morphed into much better cars as time went on. Last car in in my avatar,,,'23 Ford t-bucket altered roadster.....
     
  18. DIGMAN52

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    #18 DIGMAN52, Jan 4, 2008
    I thought the 17.30 time I turned in my mother's '67 T-bird at Green Valley was slow until I read this. All I did was flip the air cleaner cover over so you could hear the 4-barrell. Friends bug was running in the 20's.
     
  19. Greg Scott

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    #19 Greg Scott, Jan 4, 2008
    Spectacular Willys photos! Thanks for sharing them with us.

    The "Big John" '41 Willys no longer exists, although he helped build a perfect replica of that car last year before his death. Think he was about 80 years old. Two of the original "Stone,Woods & Cook" '41 Willys do still exist. One still has the original '60s blue & white interior. It was featured in a recent issue of Rodder's Jounrnal Magazine. Sub-10 second ETs in the quartermile in the ealry '60s on 9" wide rear tires was quite an accomplisment...had to be fearless. Doug "Cookie" Cook died several years ago and K.S. Pittman is in a nursing home. Some famous A/GS gasser drivers who are still active at nostaglia events are J.R. Thompson, "Ohio" George Montgomery and the Mallicoat Brothers.

    Jungle Pam rocks!
     
  20. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #20 AnotherDunneDeal, Jan 5, 2008
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    Thanks for the update Greg. I did not know K.S. is in a nursing home. I knew about "Cookie". I guess it is getting about the time that all the guys who began drag racing history are nearing the end of strip and are about to go "through the lights". We lost Dick Landy and Ronnie Sox as two very notable drag racing legends. I really miss the kind of "run what ya brung" competition from the early altered wheelbase factory experimental cars.
    I was at Green Valley in 1964 and had the pleasure to see Stone-Woods-Cook, "Ohio George" Montgomery, Big John Mazmanian and K.S. Pittman all competing. The A/GS class had about 16 cars in it if my memory serves me correctly.
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  21. AnotherDunneDeal

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    #23 AnotherDunneDeal, Jan 8, 2008
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    Here are some more including the Mallicoat Bros, John Loper Anglia "L'il Hoss", a bunch of gasser photos and the timing lights from a very close top fuel run. The last one is of Dick Brannan being helped out of his funny car (Mustang) after in crashed in 1965 at US 31 Dragway. It was amazing he wasn't killed much less walked away......
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  24. Steve DeTar

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    #24 Steve DeTar, Jan 10, 2008
    Nice 60's pic's! My dad used to race at green valley, houston, and Odessa also in the mid 60's. Steve
     
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    #25 ronr, Jan 12, 2008
    Really great photos. Must be fun finding those after all these years.
     
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