Old Style Racing: Back interested photography and racing so I found this picture on facebook. It is the dragster we ran for about 14 years, and is one of the best pictures I have seen...

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Sep 11, 2016 12:51:24 #

RacerDan Loc: Virden Illinois

Back interested photography and racing so I found this picture on facebook. It is the dragster we ran for about 14 years, and is one of the best pictures I have seen of our car.

Sep 11, 2016 12:52:59 #

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

RacerDan wrote:

Back interested photography and racing so I found this picture on facebook. It is the dragster we ran for about 14 years, and is one of the best pictures I have seen of our car.

You wrote "old style". I haven't been to a drag race in a long, long time. Don't they run rail cars any longer or is all funnys now?

Sep 11, 2016 13:04:25 #

RacerDan Loc: Virden Illinois

jimmya wrote:

You wrote "old style". I haven't been to a drag race in a long, long time. Don't they run rail cars any longer or is all funnys now?

Old Style -- sory about that.

In nostalgia drag racing they still run the front motored dragsters but yes funny cars are taking over. In nostalgia class they are running the rules from the 1970s

Sep 11, 2016 21:38:23 #

Whuff Loc: Marshalltown, Iowa

Engine in front of the driver is pretty old school.

Walt

Sep 12, 2016 06:04:46 #

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

RacerDan wrote:

Back interested photography and racing so I found this picture on facebook. It is the dragster we ran for about 14 years, and is one of the best pictures I have seen of our car.

Sep 12, 2016 06:06:00 #

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

jimmya wrote:

You wrote "old style". I haven't been to a drag race in a long, long time. Don't they run rail cars any longer or is all funnys now?

They run Top Fuel and Funny Cars. Top Fuel is the evolution of the front engined rails.

Sep 12, 2016 07:23:29 #

Fat Gregory Loc: Southern New Jersey

Nice ride Racer... Glad to see that some people don't park them in a field and let the elements win their final race. I still have one... My 55 Chevy was a B/MP car in the late 60's. Now it's my fair weather driver of choice.

Sep 12, 2016 19:06:08 #

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good picture Dan.

Sep 12, 2016 19:21:59 #

Carl D Loc: Albemarle, NC.

We used to call them "Rails" and if it had two motors it was called a "Freight Train". You don't see them built like this anymore that I know of.

Sep 14, 2016 12:57:59 #

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

Nice photo, this is the style of dragster that I liked best, clear back into the late 50s!! Always a big fan of Garlits, Cyr & Hopper, Prudhomme, etc. Now at 77 I still cherish these memories! Thanks for sharing!

Dick C.

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