Don't race a turbo diesel truck... not even if you're driving a Lamboghini. Those trucks are wickedly fast

1/8th mile, and that truck is a dozen lengths ahead.

Two guys, four hands, one amazing tire. Hurst Racing Tires

found on the Selvedge Yard http://selvedgeyard.com/2013/06/03/hurst-racing-tires-since-1961-made-by-hand-in-oregon-city-or/

drag racing E type with a sbc and a 6-71 it looks like, found on Bavarian-tendencies.blogspot.de/

from http://bavarian-tendencies.blogspot.de/2013/08/sport-cars.html

Street car racing, $50 buy in, winner takes all the cash, and that seems to be the whole deal.Begins Sept 14th, High Plains Raceway, Colorado

For all the info: https://www.facebook.com/ColoradoStreetOutlaws

You get to traction prep your lane however you like (minimal but VHT is ok) , it's regular street asphalt...

Rules for Racers!!

1.) All races are setup and approved by Col Street Outlaw admins.
 2.) 1/8th mile, from a dig for 1st race on Sept 14th
3.) Minimal prep, and up to the racer (vht, hazing tires etc)
4.) Lane choice goes to higher ranked participant of the list
5.) Jump the start or crossing lanes is automatic loss of race
6.) The person being called out sets the date of the race, and has up to 15 days to do so.
7.) Person calling out should be ready to race right then or at any point agreed upon

RULES FOR CARS!!!!
 1.) Working lights (headlights, taillights, brake lights) are required
2.) Any Fuel is permissible (E85, C10, C16, 93.etc)
3.) Any tire is permissible
4.) 1/8th Mile

In order to keep the validity of the list in tact (ie no 14sec ET cars racing 9 sec ET cars.. all races will be coordinated by the Co Street Outlaws Admins! First races are Sept 14th!!!! Be ready to travel at some point, already have other states waiting for US!

the dragstrip has a credit card operated fueling station.

The following fuels are available:
Sunoco 260 GT 100 octane unleaded street legal 3.3% oxygen, $9.46/gallon
Sunoco 260 GTX 98 octane unleaded not street legal 0.0% oxygen, $9.51/gallon
Sunoco Standard 110 octane leaded not street legal 0.0% oxygen, $9.21/gallon

The fueling station accepts Visa and Mastercard. Per the credit card company there is a $600 limit on each transaction. Each credit card can be used for a maximum of three transactions (no matter how low the dollar amount) in a 48 hour period.  http://highplainsraceway.com/

RetroHound went to the HAMB drags and filled a Flikr photo ablum, here are a couple that caught my eye

4 door, Nash? Kaiser? Hudson?

I dig the Batmobile-like red panel striping

bread delivery truck I think... cool!

All from http://www.flickr.com/photos/retrohound/sets/72157635112175581
by Robert who has several websites, including http://www.retrohound.com/

wonderful world of dragsters on Stiffspeed.tumblr.com

the windup key dragster humor.. I love that

on the right above, a Lincoln?

all from the wonderful world of dragsters: http://stiffspeed.tumblr.com

Happy Independence Day fellow Americans!

I'm sure I'll post a lot of other stuff from now til July 5th, but I just came across these stars and stripes from http://stiffspeed.tumblr.com and http://mostuffsthlm.tumblr.com and this is the first time I can recall making an effort to get some red white and blue posted for the holiday. I hope you've got the day off work to kick back and enjoy some good food and friends. 

one good looking Challenger, as seen with it's anger up

found on http://stiffspeed.tumblr.com

Carol "Bunny" Burkett

a mini dress and go go boots.. so I guess Jungle Pam wasn't the only go go boot wearer in drag racing!

I must have found this photo on a site I was just looking at, but I don't know which one. Gentlemint? Gentleman racer? I'm not sure

But Carol got into drag racing young, at age 15 at the wheel of her boyfriends 55 Mercury... and she had her  own car at age 19, a 64 Mustang. Racing seems to have been quickly a overly expensive hobby, and Carol went to work for big tips at the Playboy Club, and then returned to drag racing with a nickname... Bunny.

She kept racing for decades, and in 1986 won the IHRA championship in alochol funny cars!

http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCStory.asp?ID=193839

drag racing, wheelie bar sporting, wheelstanding stingray... damn

Well, now that I look at them closer, maybe calling those "wheelie bars" was a mistake, but they are sure set for showmanship wheelies

Found on http://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2013/04/vintage-corvettes-at-races.html

Funny Car Summer, documentary movie available from Netflix, follows Jim Dunn through the 1974 funny car races, and gives a good look at 1974

the car he raced was this rear engined Barracuda, one of only 2 rear engined funny cars racing in 1974

his ordinary job for 47 weeks a year was as a firefighter

the movie covers the drag strips in So Cal mostly, but also Oklahoma and Utah

and I've no idea why the races at El Mirage and Bonneville are in the movie, or even if they are from 1974

Carl and Veda Orr!

and no shit, they lit the back tire on fire to race bicycles with small chutes that were pulled in a parking lot race

Screen shots from the 1958 movie Hot-Rod Girl

Von Dutch pinstriping on the back?

In the credits it lists San Fernando as the dragstrip they filmed at

the movie plot is about the girl in the T Bird, far side of the track in the above photo

I can't recommend the movie, it's so over the top force feeding the anti street racing propaganda it's actually disgusting. 

Mopars at the 2013 Winternats