Showing posts with label drag strip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drag strip. Show all posts
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Lions Drag Strip free souvenir program, the Drag Scoop, Feb 7, 1970 (selected pages that aren't full of classifieds)
Thanks to my friends Tris and Terry for letting me borrow this to share with all of youThursday, February 4, 2010
My '69 Super Bee was having a good time in Hagerstown Maryland, once I learned that the Mason Dixon Dragway was just down the road... I won a trophy!
That was a good looking and good running car, 383, 3spd auto Torqueflite, 3:23 8 3/4, Candy Apple red and black vinyl roof.. even got a best of 18 mpg across country Friday, January 8, 2010
Trivia, how was a quarter mile chosen as the length of a dragstrip?
From Wally Parks:
We took some new (1949 model) cars down, and as part of the the regular Motor Trend road test, we ran these experimental runs. The purpose of the thing was to find out just how far you could race the average car that was available at the time before you had to start getting stopped. We had a runway down there that I think was 4700 feet long. We had probably 20 different cars running, of all types, including some dry lakes cars; and we found that if we extended the acceleration distance more than a quarter mile, some of them couldn't get stopped at the other end. It was on that basis that we (later) established the quarter-mile as the official (NHRA) competition distance.
Hot Rod Magazine Nov. 1978
We took some new (1949 model) cars down, and as part of the the regular Motor Trend road test, we ran these experimental runs. The purpose of the thing was to find out just how far you could race the average car that was available at the time before you had to start getting stopped. We had a runway down there that I think was 4700 feet long. We had probably 20 different cars running, of all types, including some dry lakes cars; and we found that if we extended the acceleration distance more than a quarter mile, some of them couldn't get stopped at the other end. It was on that basis that we (later) established the quarter-mile as the official (NHRA) competition distance.
Hot Rod Magazine Nov. 1978
Friday, January 1, 2010
Drag racing Cobra, early, looks like a '64, on of the Cobras equipped with Shelby American Dragonsnake parts
Can't recall where I got the image, but this is the Costilow and Larsen Cobra that won the 1965 US Nationals, CSX2093
Thursday, January 8, 2009
"Awesome Nostalgia" Drag racing.. nothing compares to the experience
Completely off the ground.
This doesn't look like the far lane is going to have a good landing
Why it's more important to have a scattershield around the trans, and the engine in the back. Those flying parts are also rotating, at between 4 to 9 thousand rpm... notice the tires are still spun up... and those spinning discs will slice through any thing that gets in the way. Be careful out there, and have fun.
That's the timing lights in the upper left of the photo, and the front tires are off the ground, the Moon Eyes are looking at the track they'd desperately like to get back to, and the slicks arec oming off the bead of the rim.
Paradise Mesa dragstrip in San Diego
Petty's Barracuda
This is gonna break parts when it comes back to earth
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