wonderful world of dragsters on Stiffspeed.tumblr.com

the windup key dragster humor.. I love that

on the right above, a Lincoln?

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The lost dragstraps of Southern California

found on http://www.thegentlemanracer.com

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. 

George Ray's Wildcat Dragstrip, last of the independant drag strips I suppose

Photos from http://402m.com.br/ which will need a translation program like Google Chrome it's worth the read though, unless you already know the story. 

SS/AH at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Mopars at the Strip 2012

 I got all these photos from trackside, without using any press pass to get on the track. That is how awesomely close you are to the action at LVMS

Houston, 1958, before dragsters had a standard looking header in a weedburner or zoomie style, they made them any way they wanted

Thanks to Damian of http://capitaldiecastgarage.blogspot.com and http://onfourwheels.blogspot.com via http://www.redlinederby.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=676

is  the Houston International Raceway 1958 / Redline Derby Racing

Want to see the Pomona dragstrip with 1964 action? With Tommy Ivo's, Don Garlits', and the Greer Black Prudhomme top fuel rails? Plus Dean Jeffries Manta Ray in action. What if you have to put up with a 60's Annette and Frankie Beach Party type movie? well, it was worth it to get these shots

The movie starts with the bunch of surfer-dragster-dancer kids going to the beach to surf. That trailer has very era correct art, just take a look at the "Monster shirts" of Mouse, Jeffries, Roth, and Von Dutch... especially the Mouse art http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/mouse-monster-shirts.html

 and here are a couple close ups

 And the same artist did the set work of Don Rickles' character's bar

 below photo has a couple cool dragsters on the wall behind the musician's stage

Dean Jeffries' Manta Ray in action, and towing a dragster http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-did-dean-jeffries-mantaray-have-289.html

the above C&T Automotive slingshot has a word painted just above the parachute, "Britannia" but it only appears on the car half the time this dragster is on screen

The movie edittors must have been going to Movie "Grade School" becuase they were real bad. The clip I got from a drag race sequence was flipped backwards, notice the above dragsters lettering

 Tommy Ivo's famous "Showboat" , in the below video, which has the movie clip of it running down the track, Tommy explains how he engineered the 4 engines to work simultaneously

Don Rickles in the red jumpsuit, his character runs the dragstrip and owns the bar "Big Drag's Pit Stop" at the beginning of this post

 There were about 10 sligshot dragsters on the movie set, the Manta Ray, and the Show Boat

  Pontiac Tempest or Bonneville wagon for a team push car, way cool rims

And they even went so nuts as to include a guy in a chimp suit thoughout the entire movie, and even had it drive a Harley Davidson Topper scooter, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-did-harley-owners-ever-reinvent.html but with a sidecar... I've never seen a Topper with a sidecar... quite kooky