I interrupt my Kimball Park posts, for this news flash, V8 powered '78 Honda Civic dragster

Video after the link http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/08/video-78-honda-civic-v8-dragster.html

The world of hot rods began with drag racing, then top speed racing at Muroc, El Mirage, etc.. it has come a long way, here's a great website about it

http://classicdragsters.com/main.php

Take the time (about 2 hours) to flip through the photos of the Starbird 50th Annual Rod and Custom Show, look at page two for the black and whites of vintage racing, and for lots of sweet customs, look through the HAMB drags pictures (Via http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ )

Just keep a cold one handy, I never moved for 2 hours while soaking it all in.

Thanks Mr Pontiac for the link, and the photoalbums, keeping the rest of us in car porn is a kind thing to do!

Early Stone, Woods, and Cook shop pics of the crew and car

I don't know much about alot of stuff.

I do know from experience that it takes a long time to do justice for alot of deserving people. So if and when you read a good story, I hope it occurs to you how many searches, crossmatching, comparing and contrasting of available info usually happens to make a few good paragraphs of solid info to educate with facts.

For more on the Stone, Woods, and Cook crew, the http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=904#more-904 write up is recommended.

This posting instigated a posting on The Jalopy Journal, which was where I found these three pictures. So it goes when legends are the topic of conversation. We learn things we don't know from each other, and others join the thread, and give us more knowledge that fills in our gaps in our knowledge.

I'm damn proud to be a member of the HAMB, where so many educated car guys spread the knowledge, legends, and lore of the things that inspired us, thrill us, and please us.

The Stone, Woods, and Cook car and crew are the ONLY reason I love the '40-'41 Willys. It's my top of all lists, car to want, desire, and hope to own someday. I knew little more than that, and remembered less, but to read the posting on Jalopy Journal, and the posting of all the people who joined in the thread with info and pics is a cool thing to know I started, even by pinching and photoshopping these 4 pics from the nooks and crannies of the threads, posts, and links from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/

" The guys in the group picture are K.S Pittman, Wayne Arteaga, Doug Cook and Tiny Roberts. The guy in the white t shirt in the other picture is John Hellmuth"

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=183013&showall=1
"All of those pictures were taken by either Wayne Arteaga or his brother Eldon. Both are professional photographers and have provided many pictures to Don Montgomery and the gassermadness site. They were taken in Wayne's garage in North St. Louis. He and my brother often provided pit service to all the name gassers when they were passing through the area."

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=183013&showall=1

A really good reason to visit http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ are pics like this!

Hot Rod City ( in El Cajon) went out of business a couple years ago

This is in the showroom, of the now "East County Collision center". How a full race saturn ends up there, minus the drivetrain... no idea. Hot Rod City was a cool place to look around in, full dealership feel to 30's and 40's customs for sale, think of a Good Guys car show where it's all for sale.

Race cars make me happy

front and back

The Winged Express, driven by Wild Willie Borsch

Motown Misslie, a legendary car, fastest 1971 Prostocker, 9.48 sec

http://www.quartermilestones.com/raymann.htm for excellent dragstrip photo's of the 60's and early 70's

Dual engine diggers, and dual rear tire dragsters

For more dual engine and or dual rear tire dragsters see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/chrisman-cannon-hustler-exp-1961.html

LOVE A 41 WILLYS! Click on image to enlarge

6 second quarter mile Superbird

When drag racing counts on aerodynamics, the choice is obvious

One of the singularly coolest Pro Mod race cars, and those Pro Mod are the coolest race cars.

This was called the Texas Big Bird, it raced from around 99 to 2003. The website they had is dead.


It would go from a dead stop to 235MPH in 6.2 seconds. While it was a one of a kind pure drag car that had no street car parts - it was built to look like a Petty Blue (Richard Petty's colors when he raced a Superbird) and was featured in four magazines.




A few years ago -- a street Superbird was used to tow the Texas Big Bird to the starting line as a promotion stunt.

http://www.oldhippie.com/news2006/2006may.htm also featured in the Aug 97 High Performance Mopar.

Bob Glidden

images via http://voiture-jaune.tumblr.com/

Bill Stephens in the Jan 2001 Drag Racer magazine said the following "Bob Gidden's greatest racing accomplishment, besides winning all those races and all those championships, was his ability to make a winning race car out of a Pinto, and a Fairmont, and to really show off, a Plymouth Arrow."

Love that quote.
The Pinto was built by Gapp and Roush.

http://www.nhra.com/50th/top50/B_Glidden04.html has his bio, placing him number 4 of the all time greatest top 50 drag racers. Placing at nubers 1-3 respectively are Garlits, Force and Prudhomme

"Glidden, who amassed a record 16,035 points and lowered the national record to 8.59, fielded two winning cars that year: The first was his tried-and-true Ford Pinto that carried him to victories at the season-opening Winternationals and Cajun Nationals, and the second was his famed Ford Fairmont, with which he won the Summernationals and finished the season undefeated in national event competition. When all was said and done, Glidden had tied Don Prudhomme for most national event wins in a season with seven, including five straight, and had broken the Pro Stock single-season record of six set by Jenkins in 1972.
In recalling his Summernationals triumph, which he attained by defeating the Lombardo-driven Jenkins Monza in the final (8.55 to 8.71), Glidden said, "That was by far the biggest spread that I ever had over the guys in any race that I've ever ran. We didn't clinch the points title mathematically until just before [Indianapolis], but mentally, we felt that we had won the title right there in Englishtown."
Glidden retired his undefeated Fairmont in favor of a Plymouth Arrow in 1979 and lost only three times all year. After finishing the 1978 season with seven straight victories, Glidden opened the 1979 season with a victory at the Winternationals and didn't lose a round until June, when a foul start in the second round of the Mile-High Nationals snapped his streak at 14 races and 50 rounds. That season, Glidden won seven national events, went undefeated in divisional competition, and earned the maximum number of points available at four national events by qualifying No. 1, setting low e.t. and top speed, and winning the race. He did the same thing at all four of his divisional races. "

An old advert is like an old muscle car, just time travelling