ABC's Wide World of Sports, great program, gave coverage to drag racing during it's 1967-72 heyday

this 1970-72 coverage clip was found on http://www.dogfightmag.com/2010/07/the-wide-world-of-sports among a lot of other great stuff... you ought to check out http://www.dogfightmag.com/ there is a lot of good stuff there

for 1967 clip from ABC's Wide World of Sports:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/don-garlits-wins-1967-us-nationals.html

drag racing VW's at the Bugorama

Howtobuildatimemachine tumblr, check out the good stuff they post

That is one bad muddy main street

For more good stuff http://howtobuildatimemachine.tumblr.com

The Dragmaster Special

see it in a 1958 Hot Rod magazine movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bqCm7YO2GOI

Good stuff to look through at douke.tumblr.com

http://douke.tumblr.com/ has a lot of variety, and has led me to other Tumblr sites, that I'm bouncing around between... so am out of time to keep looking though http://douke.tumblr.com/ but I do recommend it from what I've seen from the dozen pages I've looked through so far

I can't recall if this is "Moonbeam"

Oldest surviving dragster, and it was the first to 140mph, Art Chrisman's "the 25 car"

This was racing on the lakes 80 years ago. Sheesh.
Photos from http://www.blogger-index.com/feed424779.html

Generally acknowledged as the oldest surviving hot rod in existence, this historic vehicle dates back to the Muroc dry lakes competition of the 1930s. It has had just about every engine under the hood, from a Model T four-banger to an injected Chrysler Hemi.

After the car's wheelbase was stretched from its original dry lakes configuration, Art Chrisman used it to record the first quarter-mile clocking in excess of 140 mph, in Santa Ana, Calif., in 1953, and it made the first run down the track in Great Bend, Kan., during the ribbon cutting for the inaugural NHRA Nationals in 1955.

Chrisman had retired the car from competition in 1957, when he constructed his Hustler dragster, but painstakingly restored it to its original running condition.

Info from http://www.nhra.net/museum/features/feature36.html

More Turbonique info about the Black Widow VW bug

read the whole post at http://stinkingass.blogspot.com/2009/01/gasser-turbonique-black-widow.html

three dozen reasons to know you'll like looking through Go Away Garage blogspot

Above a WW2 Crosley 3 wheeler
Gas in the spark plugs... wow, that was a long time ago
I think the above is the supercharged straight eight
not good to see your back wheel pass you by
Stutz Blackhawk at Ormand Beach

Steam powered lawn mowers.... your neighbors would freak out.
crew cab model a, custom made


Great old vintage bike stand

They said it's photoshopped, but I don't care
Ner a car

They look like they are bolted to a bar under the bikes, probably a carnival ride



Above is a Willys or Graham I think
I like the van without the headlights, nice custom bodywork look
Private Hawaiian plantation tourist trainride

Morgan, very early I bet
I'd never heard before that Oral Roberts (televangelist) had bought a Futurliner... huh
That helmet is terrific
I know I have forgotten what I used to know about the above dragster.
1906 Stanley Steamer set the land speed record for steam powered cars at Ormand Beach, and that 126 mph record still stands. Steam was obsolete so quickly after Stanley and Doble perfected its use in cars, that no one even tried o break their record
Way cool Triumph gas tanks stringed art. I doubt it plays, but it does look incredible




Gyro stabilized car
Vespa in the back of a Citreon 2cv... awesome

see these and a whole lot more at http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com/ but don't look while at work, there is a lot of hardwood floors and tatays