Drag racing, nothing new about that. Funny car, been around 40+ years, nothing new. When the steering comes off after launch... that's new. What 2 do?

Found on http://www.dogfightmag.com/2011/06/oh-shit via via http://blog.hemmings.com/ where Dan posts great stuff all the time

Serious setback, US Nationals Indy 1965 Jack Chrisman's Merc Comet 427 SOHC

Gotta love that Magnetic Brain http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/

He was there, Denis Scott... and photographed the dragsters during the heyday of the early 70's, lucky!

Above from the photographer, Denis Scott, the Chi-Town Hustler driven by Ron Colson (which is featured in Mopar Action this month)... offset the driver to lower the roof because the driver wasn't over the driveshaft hump.. and was just restored and cloned. One for the museum and one for the road to tour with at nostalgia events. The Coil name in the owners.. is Austin Coil, you know, the crew chief and tuner for John Force throughout John's astounding career.

The immediately above I found on Skylar's facepage, and Denis was looking through here and let me know that he was the photographer, and filled me in a bit about his photography career, and sent me a couple more:

From Denis, "I was hired by the Chi-Town people to shoot that Hustler photo. I believe that was sponsored by Snap-on tools, I remember the Snap-on girl was there.

I was actually working for hot rod magazines then, Drag Racing USA, I did a lot for them. I was also the track photographer for Rt 30 dragway back then, can you believe that I did this attached poster in 1970!

It was a long career, I travelled all over the USA and Canada shooting big races for magazines in the glory years of drag racing, lot's of fun, but not a lot of money.
But I don't regret it, I used to drag race before all of that, my favorite car I built was my A/A 39 Fiat. These two attached photo's are of my Fiat, but not when I was racing it.
I actually seen it in the pits at the track I was shooting for a few years after I sold it, I shot it sitting there and made these photo's in Photoshop.
Come to think of it, I didn't sell it, I traded it for a 32 Ford 3 window finished street coupe, I miss that also.
This 40 Ford was mine also, why do we sell these things??"

http://www.denisscott.com/ is his website, but he already said the dragster photos aren't there (DAMN!)

Finally, a 50's and 60's blog about dragsters, Roth, racing, 60's groovy culture, perfect hot rods, and funny cars!

George Barris made a motorized surfboard? ! ? His "Surf Woody" toured with it ont he national circuit http://www.barris.com/gallery_cars/Kustoms_HotRods/gallery_surfwoody.html it had a small Moon fuel tank, a 2 cylinder McCulloch engine

Full story on page 136 of Big Book of Barris: http://books.google.com/books?id=ATjy1tKxfjYC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=barris+surfboard&source=bl&ots=Iy2K-Kf4gr&sig=Ljw2_aOAZQSMuB5yd6UrcY96mKA&hl=en&ei=UwNKS5KSFofgsQO4mrT1Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=barris%20surfboard&f=false

She is in front of Roth's Road Agent, and she is wearing a Watson's mini skirt... a combo of customizers, and with a beehive hairdoo too... wow, what 60's!

Just a sample of the cool stuff! Look through all of it; http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/

HEY MB, if you're reading, love your blog! You don't have an email I could use to tell you though.

Power to weight ratio of a dragonfly that's strapped on a jet pack, I dig this Fiat funny car

read all about it, and see their gallery: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/04/sema-2009-427-powered-fiat-500-is-the-stuff-dreams-are-made-of/

I don't remember where I found these images... but they are very cool

I think this one was from Pixdaus or Shorpy

Ah HA! that's where I got them! Skylar's facebook page! thanks man! This photo of the Chi Town Hustler was taken by Denis Scott by the Buckinham fountain in Chicago in the '70's.
It ran in the Chicago Sun Times magazine section, Pat Minnick was the driver

Love photos of gassers? Floppers? Funny Cars?

Lace paint and....

Tony Nancy hemi's... what's not to love? This 68 Barracuda held the record at a couple SoCal racetracks.

http://gassermadness.com/Ditty/index.htm and http://gassermadness.com/plum-gas/index.htm

http://gassermadness.com/vernscholz/index.html

Mike Mitchell "World's Fastest Hippie"

The 2nd car to the right, in the twisty rainbow colors, is Mikes Barracuda (also seen in this post, 5th from the last photo)