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Finnish Fireball:
Alan it says "Front engine dragster takes us to roots of Drag Racing". It is a nice coverage, five pages total and great pics.
At least to my eye but I might be biased. :P
wideopen231:
It is cool when your hotrod make it into magazine.
When we came out with Starr Rider we had 4 or 5 page spread in Super Stock.
So how many copies did you buy? I cleaned out to magazine stands when our car was in it. Actually found a copy for sale on ebay a month ago.
denverflatheader:
“Roots of Drag Racing” how appropriate; your pictures look like they were taken on an “airport runway.” In the beginning, I think early 1950s, they first had drag racing at Santa Ana Airport in Orange County CA. Now it’s renamed John Wayne Airport. We use to fly into John Wayne Airport yearly, I would tell my wife and anyone sitting next to me, this is where drag racing started : )
We have a small airport (really an airfield) near the town Julesberg, located in northeast corner of Colorado. It was also the site of early drag racing starting by the Platte Valley Customs car club in 1956. An interesting fun fact is the Julesberg airfield drag strip back then was a NHRA sanctioned track. Today they still close the airfield on some weekends and do drag racing meets. They do a Hot Rod Revival drag race typically in August, just like the good old days. Here’s a picture (I believe from Hot Rod Magazine Oct 1959) racing at Julesberg.
More info, I actually know both guys racing in the Oct. 1959 Julesberg photo, Butch Salter and Darrell Wark. Butch from the Denver area and Darrell from Goodland Kansas. The last time Darrell raced with our racing club was maybe 1998(?) Butch still involved in land speed racing, I think going 200+ at the Front Range Airport One Mile race on Labor Day weekend 2015, plus a long time ago Butch had a mid 60s Jr. Fuel dragster that now another friend of mine (J. Marlett) owns and has converted it to Ford V8 flathead powered with glide.
Butch told me his antique dragster in the Julesberg picture is long gone, but he still had the 4-banger engine sitting under his bench. My other picture “talk about roots of drag racing” is an early dragster that I bought 23 years ago and has just been hanging around. It’s a complete roller, vw torsion front, homemade straight tube axle with ford spindles, and narrowed banjo rear with the Chassis Research aluminum hubs with shortened banjo splined axles, and aluminum body panels. For the period (late 1950s) it is well built. The original owner/builder lived one block west of JCRS Shopping Center in Denver, and he had a Ford V8 flathead in it with 3-spd only using 2nd & 3rd. And no doubt raced at Julesberg and a few other drag strips in the area waaaay back then. Alan
Finnish Fireball:
I put up a little video that wraps together the new engine build.
Finnish Fireball:
A little sunbathing never hurts. First startup ok.
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