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When Garlits raced Malone (great old pics too)   When Garlits Raced Malone- Ronny Elliott |
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| I met him once. I don't care about actors but I fanboyed and shook his hand lol. |
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Picked this up at my first NHRA event. Had it wedged in my tool box ever since. Eddie Hill. "First In The Fours".... Attached File Attached File |
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Originally Posted By Villafuego: https://boobpedia.com/wiki/images/e/ee/Jpam.jpg Jungle Pam. 
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Originally Posted By AT7WE2: Picked this up at my first NHRA event. Had it wedged in my tool box ever since. Eddie Hill. "First In The Fours".... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/170853/20221108_193941_jpg-2593121.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/170853/20221108_194009_jpg-2593122.JPG |
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Originally Posted By WhiskersTheCat: It would be tough for me to pick a favorite time for auto racing, but it isn't now. Originally Posted By WhiskersTheCat: It would be tough for me to pick a favorite time for auto racing, but it isn't now. But. Drag Queens then Originally Posted By Villafuego:  vs Drag Queens now. |
| I have some great memories of watching Garlits dominate top fuel, the 'Snake vs. Mongoose' funny car rivalry, Muldowny breaking the gender barrier, rocket go-karts, jet cars at night, and other NHRA goodness at Union Grove, Wisconsin "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" events. |
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Originally Posted By Villafuego: https://boobpedia.com/wiki/images/e/ee/Jpam.jpg Mick Jagger in drag. He looks good. Here’s the crash that made Garlits put the motor behind the driver.  " />
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Originally Posted By Striker: my favourite top fuel pilot. Originally Posted By Striker: Originally Posted By AT7WE2: Picked this up at my first NHRA event. Had it wedged in my tool box ever since. Eddie Hill. "First In The Fours".... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/170853/20221108_193941_jpg-2593121.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/170853/20221108_194009_jpg-2593122.JPG Got the chance to talk with him on the roof of the tower at IRP after he smoked the tires and got beat in the 1st round one year. He was always 1 of the guys I rooted for and he hung out with us for an hour or so before he had to go do some TV. Absolutely first class gentleman and an all around regular guy. |
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Originally Posted By OG1: I met him once. I don't care about actors but I fanboyed and shook his hand lol. I was at MoKan in the 80s when I had my 1969 GTO Judge. On that night Big Daddy Don was there with Gene Snowman Snow doing exhibition races. I fanboyed and got him to sign a can of Kendall motor oil. |
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Originally Posted By AT7WE2: Picked this up at my first NHRA event. Had it wedged in my tool box ever since. Eddie Hill. "First In The Fours".... I remember him being interviewed right after he broke the record. The interviewer asked him why he went from Top Fuel boat to Top Fuel dragster. His answer: Because it's safer. |
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I grew up reading about these old timer drag racers by digging through the stack of Hot Rod mags my dad had in the closet.(along with some Playboys). Garlitz was my favorite, just from that. Then I read a biography of Big Daddy at the local library that was so old he hadn't switched to rear engined yet. Imagine, he was already that big of a legend. It was all about him going out west and beating the snake and other early legends. Next I got to see him race in person about 1982. He beat Muldowney in the finals, think it was AHRA or IHRA. About 10 years ago I saw him at SEMA. Hell he almost ran over me. He was driving a mobility scooter. |
| I saw Garlits and Muldowney do a best of 3 match race on a Saturday night at Spartanburg International Dragway around '79 or '80. They were racing a national event at Darlington SC and towed to Spartanburg for the match race. Great times for sure, primitive by today's standard but those cars were the absolute state of the art at the time. |
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Originally Posted By Ambridge77: I was never a drag racing fan, but this was one of my first books, and I liked it.  https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/525420/Screenshot_20221108-171241_Chrome-2592793.jpg 1970s, if I'm not mistaken. YES! I never got to see Big Daddy Race, but have been to the Museum having lived in the area many years ago... The concept is the same, but the cars, engines, fuel systems are vastly different from back in the day.
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Originally Posted By eracer: Saw something new last night. Las Vegas had four-wide racing. Bizarre. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhra.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Finline-images%2F4wide.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=af0268855efaec48124d1dae6a62dd10df5ae94b5defa0cd2bd151374db47e29&ipo=images |
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He's rumored to be working on a record setting EV dragster to smoke the nitro rigs. No batteries, all big capacitors. I would imagine the sequencing would be quite the trick. His museum is incredible. A must see for gearheads. He wanders in and out most days. He is quite approachable. $13.50 admittance for seniors when I was there last year. Edit. Good Cuban take out around the corner for lunch. https://www.tomscubanonthego.com/cubansandwich |
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Originally Posted By paul463:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc0DaT0sxCwA good watch also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnX-XWK6K1EThank you so much for posting that, particularly the second video. That really opened my eyes to the type of man he ended up being. I had no idea about a lot that |
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Originally Posted By leemozoid: I was at MoKan in the 80s when I had my 1969 GTO Judge. On that night Big Daddy Don was there with Gene Snowman Snow doing exhibition races. I fanboyed and got him to sign a can of Kendall motor oil. I went to Mokan in the early 90s for a super Chevy show. I fanboyed the grump at Houston raceway for an autograph. |
| Don truly is one of a few extraordinary Gentlemen I've ever had the pleasure to meet in my life. This recent Vid shows his passion at around 1:10 when he describes the reaction to his NAVY sponsors to his God is Love cross he had painted on his car. This is a great vid if you can find the time to take it in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVwu7X8uFM |
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Originally Posted By osprey21: @nowgrn4 Thanks for posting the Garlits video in your thread from earlier today. My pleasure, thanks! |
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| I'm an old school drag fan went a to Lakeland International Raceway outside Memphis TN when a kid late 1970's . Remember the Green Mamba Jet car don't remember any funny cars . Neighbor across the street raced his black 69 Z/28 302 4/sp . Neighbor behind us had a 69 Camaro big block 4 sp Modified Production ran 11's . Gold black stripes jacked up with fat slicks chrome reveres rims with skinny front tires with Cragar S/S rims. Mom would get get a little mad when stated it up and rattled the kitchen widows and dishes . There is Lakeland Int. Raceway on Facebook . |
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Originally Posted By AT7WE2: Picked this up at my first NHRA event. Had it wedged in my tool box ever since. Eddie Hill. "First In The Fours".... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/170853/20221108_193941_jpg-2593121.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/170853/20221108_194009_jpg-2593122.JPG I have an autographed Eddie Hill shirt, met him at Maple Grove Raceway when they were still doing 1320 feet. Saw Shirley Muldowney do a 10’ wheelie in qualifying, thought the car was going to blow over. Nothing like feeling the shockwave from the exhaust hit you as they go past, you can feel every exhaust stroke…and it ain’t many. |
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I was never a drag racing fan but, every Labor Day weekend, the NHRA Nationals would come to Indianapolis Raceway Park. They would stage and do inspections in the parking lot of the shopping center down from my house. We kids would flock there to collect free decals and ogle the cars. It was our last blast of summer before school started. Between the Nationals and the Indy 500 just down the street, we all grew up with racing in our blood. |
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Originally Posted By eracer: I have some great memories of watching Garlits dominate top fuel, the 'Snake vs. Mongoose' funny car rivalry, Muldowny breaking the gender barrier, rocket go-karts, jet cars at night, and other NHRA goodness at Union Grove, Wisconsin "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" events. I remember seeing Capt. Jack McClure and his rocket powered cart. Pretty cool, but I thought he was nuts.  |