Baby moons and beauty rings...
STP and Mooneyes stickers
Big Daddy Roth
Dual Pattern Synchro-Loc
Car thingies probably not recognized by anyone under45.
Yours??
Doug
Big Daddy Roth
Dual Pattern Synchro-Loc
Car thingies probably not recognized by anyone under45.
Yours??
Doug
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here one for those of us that love fat tires, and lots of Hp 
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Used to love the "Fabulous Fury Freak Brothers".
How about six pack, Go-Pack, Tennessee Walkers and Red Line tires?
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Emergency brake levers, automatic stick shift, master cylinder under the floorboard, seven window cab, vacuum wipers, six volt batteries and polarizing generators. Most of todays youth would think this is all fictional. How about no turn signals, no seat belts, metal dashboards, no fm radios if you had one at all. No air conditioning and gasoline heaters. Truck boxes had wooden beds, tailgates were held shut with hooks attached to a chain. Damn, things were simple when I was young. 0 -
Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney
Dig Daddy Don Garlits
Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins
Sun Tachs with a garter around them!!
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!! AT SMOKIN US30 DRAG STRIP!! WHERE THE BIG ONES RUN!!RUN run......SATURDAY NIGHT, UNDER THE LIGHTS....They were the BEST radio commercials around Chicagoland in the 70's for Broadway Bobs Union Grove Raceway in Wisc. and U.S.30 Dragstrip in Indiana.
Chrome reverses, Clay Smith Cams. I think the Clay Smith Woodpecker existed prior to Woody Woodpecker.
A nu,ber of years ago, I bought a few very cool Mooneyes and Ratfink t-shirts from mooneyes.com
I think Linda Vaughn was the hottest!! Miss Hurst, the "first lady of drag racing" What a time for cars.......Oh, what great memories.......0 -
Wolf Whistles, that attached to the intake manifold.
Headlight "eyebrows" made of chrome.
Knock-Offs.
Halibrand Magnesium Wheels.
Westlake Intake Manifolds.
"No, No, Son, you put your thumb on the SAME side of the crank as your fingers!! Don't forget to retard the spark all the way!!"0 -
Bubble and turnpike cruiser fender skirts. 0 -
Who can forget Gas Rhonda and the Surfers? 0 -
push button drive 0 -
AA Fuel Altereds, scary at their very best! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
AA Fuel Altereds, scary at their very best!
"WILD Willy" Borsch!!!0 -
Don't forget Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick With is insane burnouts and really moving back to the tree after the burnout!!
We need a whole thread dedicated to Linda Vaughn photos!![:D]0 -
Fireball Roberts. And don't forget Smokey Yunick. 'Ol Smokey was a master at deception. He could get away with more track violations on his vehicle than anyone. The race officials never caught them. Oh, the days. Joe 0 -
Hurst Mistery shift
Bill Ireland from Portland
Dandy Dick Landys Dodge
Stromburg 97s (3 of em)
Offy heads
Jahns pistons
3 speed with overdrive
posi trac
202 heads
Duntov cams
Stop light raceing
Hand rubbed laquer
The North Wind AA/Fuel dagster from Portland
Gas Rhonda
Fluid drive tranys
Vacum shift Chevys
Curtis Turner
Rolla Volstads Indy cars
Len Sutton
tuck & roll interior
Guess I'll shut up and go to bed.0 -
cut outs
air cleaner lids flipped over0 -
Neckin knobs and leaded-in trunks. 0 -
Muncie M22 "Rock Crusher" 4 Speed Transmission 0 -
quote:Originally posted by givette
Fireball Roberts. And don't forget Smokey Yunick. 'Ol Smokey was a master at deception. He could get away with more track violations on his vehicle than anyone. The race officials never caught them. Oh, the days. Joe
I read onetime that smoky had enough fuel line running around the car that he would hold an extra 2-3 gallons of fuel!! He was also disqualified a number of times even though no violations were found!! They were just sure he was cheating somehow!! Most rules in racing were put in because of Smokey!! Gotta love the guy!0 -
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Originally posted by givette
Fireball Roberts. And don't forget Smokey Yunick. 'Ol Smokey was a master at deception. He could get away with more track violations on his vehicle than anyone. The race officials never caught them. Oh, the days. Joe
I read onetime that smoky had enough fuel line running around the car that he would hold an extra 2-3 gallons of fuel!! He was also disqualified a number of times even though no violations were found!! They were just sure he was cheating somehow!! Most rules in racing were put in because of Smokey!! Gotta love the guy!
One of the stories was that Smokey was called into tech once again for some sort of cheating violation. Someone said that he was able to hold to much fuel in the car so the tech department started tearing every piece of fuel line, the fuel cell and the fuel pump out of the car. With all of this stuff laying on the floor the tech guys were sitting there scratching their heads and not finding anything. Smokey walks up says "I told you guys that you wouldn't find anything", then he hops in the car, starts it and drives off, leaving all the stuff on the ground!!!!0 -
I remember seeing a cartoon, I believe in the early 70's, either in National Dragster or one of the hot rod magazines. It depicted Don Garlits Top Fuel dragster at that time with a tech inspector setting on one of the front wheels with the caption that went something like "He wouldn't know cheating if it bite him in the butt". If I remember correctly the innovative Garlits had staggered the front wheels slightly, which enabled him to stage deeper into the starting beams without red lighting, gave him a starting line advantage, and allowed him to trip the finish beam a little sooner than the competition. I think there was a rule change shortly thereafter! 0 -
My brother from another mother: Whitewalls, chrome reverse steelies and baby moons will be making a comeback any minute now. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by iceracerx
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
AA Fuel Altereds, scary at their very best!
"WILD Willy" Borsch!!!
I remember that guy! I read that he balled up the front end so many times, he just started using exhaust tubing and hose clamps to rebuild it. There's one famous picture of him sliding his altered sideways, with the front wheels cranked and those big huge meats in the back leaning over, and if you look close you can see he's only steering with one hand!0 -
Slightly off-topic (two wheels instead of four). Choppers that were actually built/modified by their owners and didn't cost more money than I bring home in a year. And does anyone remember Arlen Ness? Way before Jesse James or the Orange County Choppers crew, he was da man. 0 -
Yeah, Mongrel, I usedta LUST after the one he did that reminded ya of the Ferrari testa Rossa - ya woulda thought I was in Love!!! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
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Originally posted by givette
Fireball Roberts. And don't forget Smokey Yunick. 'Ol Smokey was a master at deception. He could get away with more track violations on his vehicle than anyone. The race officials never caught them. Oh, the days. Joe
I read onetime that smoky had enough fuel line running around the car that he would hold an extra 2-3 gallons of fuel!! He was also disqualified a number of times even though no violations were found!! They were just sure he was cheating somehow!! Most rules in racing were put in because of Smokey!! Gotta love the guy!
One of the stories was that Smokey was called into tech once again for some sort of cheating violation. Someone said that he was able to hold to much fuel in the car so the tech department started tearing every piece of fuel line, the fuel cell and the fuel pump out of the car. With all of this stuff laying on the floor the tech guys were sitting there scratching their heads and not finding anything. Smokey walks up says "I told you guys that you wouldn't find anything", then he hops in the car, starts it and drives off, leaving all the stuff on the ground!!!!
He also allegedly put an inflated basketball in the gastank, to that in prerace inspection, it would show to hold the same amount as the other cars. At the first pit stop, the crew would deflate the thing, and they would get away with an extra gallon of fuel per fillup.
Facinating character. Holds the patent on tons of machines and parts. I always wanted to read his book "Best Damn Garage in Town."0 -
Anyone remember what GTO actually was the abbreviation for?? 0 -
Cleveland
Windsor
Boss
L88
Top Loader
C6
C4
Air Shocks
Traction-loc
Polyglass0 -
Wynns
Bardahl
"Color me Gone"
"Barefoot" gas pedal0 -
Gran Turismo Olomogato by Ferrari, and it meant Homologated Grand Touring. Homologated essentially (in this case) means "accepted into a (racing) class".
You're welcome.
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Golden Gripper[:D] 0 -
Split manifolds.
ARE WE HAVIN' FUN YET ?????????????
Some sweet memories.
...and the girls...
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