| This page features some of my favourite car pics |
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| First car is a '34 Ford with the radiator in the trunk. Coolant flows through tubing inside the frame rails. It gives a much clearer view of that awesome, 8/71 blown engine and weight distibution is much improved. Not that this show car will see much drag strip action. Hefty top chop adds to the evil look. |
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| As you'll see, I like open engines and exposed mechanicals, noise and raw power. I like to see what the vehicle is made of. I also like '60's muscle cars, and on the Nova page you can see the story of our '68 Chevy Nova, and hopefull follow it's road back to glory. |
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| The common denominator in my choice of favourite vehicles seems to be fat tyres, big engines, and an evil appearance. That's not a coincidence. |
| The Unsprung Motto If it rolls, floats, flies or crashes, runs on nitro, gasoline or high explosives, if it goes fast, fires a big bullet, and makes a lot of noise, thus producing torque and recoil, it's COOL! But if it's a ball, made of leather, or inflated with air, that's hit with a bat, racquet or club, played on a court, green or course, by yuppies or liberals, it SUCKS!!!! |
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| Just thought I'd include this black and white one to show the awesome power of a blown nitro engine. Here is one of the first rear engines dragsters, and you can see why they eventually outlawed the front engined diggers. If you look close you'll see a shattered section of the crank flying through the air! |
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| This is an amazing front shot of a fire breathing dragon. An early, front engined, blown, nitromethane dragster. This is where my earliest memories of drag racing lie. This is where my interest in speed and power began. |
| Please be patient, slow loader in operation. |
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| Classic 60's shot of the "Cow Palace Pits". This is a typical car of the period, but the end was coming for these incredible front engined monsters. The saner, safer, more boring rear engines racers were on the way. |
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| Eddie Hills twin engined, six wheeled beast. Surely two engines are better than one? It never really caught on though and the few drag racers who tried it nearly always reverted to one engine eventually. Two gave twice the power, but nearly doubled the weight of the vehicle. Interesting feature is the steering rod running between the motors to the tube front axle. |
| The camera that took this awesome shot was actually mounted on the car, and fired with a timer. It shows the tyre smoke that the driver had to put up with for most of the time it took to cover the quarter mile, and you can see that he doesn't exactly have much of a forward view. Try to imagine the heat, noise, smoke and vibration, as the 2000 hp monster bounces, slams, rattles and roars it's way to 180 mph and beyond, in less than eight seconds. |
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| A drag style model 'T' Ford copy. Note the resemblance to the full race dragsters in the following few photos. |
| Link to old time dragster site |
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