Check out the first dragster ever made (1955)
11-27-2004, 06:16 PM
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Check out the first dragster ever made (1955)
This is a pix of the Bean Bandits dragster from 1955. They would use the airport in Orange County, CA on Sundays to hold drag races there. If a plane had to land, they would just stop the races for a few minutes to let it touchdown.
Not much in the way of safety equipment...
Not much in the way of safety equipment...
11-27-2004, 06:22 PM
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Re: Check out the first dragster ever made (earl)
This reminds me of the history of drag racing thing that was on tv a couple months ago. Those guys were straight up nuts...noway else to put it.
Btw, if anyone is interested...nhra.com has a photo album thing commemorating their 50th anniversary. It has photos from day one up to the present...lots of cool stuff in there (stuff like this pic).
http://www.nhra.com/50th/
Btw, if anyone is interested...nhra.com has a photo album thing commemorating their 50th anniversary. It has photos from day one up to the present...lots of cool stuff in there (stuff like this pic).
http://www.nhra.com/50th/
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11-27-2004, 07:37 PM
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Re: (TEAMGENDAI)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by TEAMGENDAI »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Damn that guys is gangsta!</TD></TR></TABLE>
rofl..
seriously no safety equipment, you'd have to think that it would be pretty fast!
rofl..
seriously no safety equipment, you'd have to think that it would be pretty fast!
11-27-2004, 09:04 PM
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Re: Check out the first dragster ever made (bomber)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by bomber »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">This reminds me of the history of drag racing thing that was on tv a couple months ago. Those guys were straight up nuts...noway else to put it.
Btw, if anyone is interested...nhra.com has a photo album thing commemorating their 50th anniversary. It has photos from day one up to the present...lots of cool stuff in there (stuff like this pic).
http://www.nhra.com/50th/</TD></TR></TABLE>
I saw that too lol
Btw, if anyone is interested...nhra.com has a photo album thing commemorating their 50th anniversary. It has photos from day one up to the present...lots of cool stuff in there (stuff like this pic).
http://www.nhra.com/50th/</TD></TR></TABLE>
I saw that too lol
11-27-2004, 09:59 PM
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Re: Check out the first dragster ever made (earl)
Dick Kraft built his Bug, considered by many to represent the first dragster campaigned on a regular basis, by stripping his roadster down to the bare framerails to drag race it in July 1950.
It's on display down at the NHRA Motorsports Museum at the Fairplex... pretty funky
http://www.nhra.com/museum/features/feature10.html
It's on display down at the NHRA Motorsports Museum at the Fairplex... pretty funky
http://www.nhra.com/museum/features/feature10.html
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