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08-14-2009 06:10 AM #1
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Best Drag Racing Photo
To me, this is the best drag photo I've seen. Talk about snapping the picture at the right time.................
Note that you can see the blower pulley through the front wheel!!Buying parts I don't need, with money I don't have, to impress people I don't like 
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08-14-2009 07:00 AM #2
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well----what I like best about that picture of flying parts and oil------the Enderle BARNDOOR injector on top -----
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Hmmmmm. Worst case of oil pan failure I've ever seen!!!!!
and the driver looking down to see what he might have "lost"....Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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08-14-2009 07:32 AM #4
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back in those days they really needed stronger oil pans to contain all those stock rods---notice the broken bolt in the number 6 rod???
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Yup, definite case of a too weak oil pan!!!!! .......and then he lost 25 points for the oil down..... dang!!!!
Originally Posted by jerry clayton
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08-14-2009 09:14 AM #6
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"Runnin' over the crank"
You just know what's goin' through the driver's mind by the way he's lookin' down. He's sayin' WHAT THE......
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I've seen this sort of thing before!
In the late '60s or early seventies I was at Charleston Dragway in central Illinois, a local 1/8th mile track. A C/G '32 Ford victoria, with an injected SBC 4-speed, dumped the entire crank assembly on the starting line! Those were the days of 8,000-10,000 RPM launches. :-)
The car was either sponsored, or owned by Albert Clark of Clark Chevrolet, who later went on to run Pro Stock, and also sponsored Keith Stark's record holding injected A/fueler.
Sorry ....I didn't get a picture. :-(
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That's one of the perfect drag racing shots ever, here's a different angle of the "magic Muffler" blow up (or down).
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they did that on purpose to show everybody what a c t stroker crank looks like...ted
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I think the driver was checking to see if his anatomy was still intact!"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty." John Basil Barnhil
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Kinda the same impression I got, Glenn!!!!! Originally Posted by glennsexton
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They only had to do that at Lions. At San Fernando they had a sign board to do their advertising. Originally Posted by ted dehaan
they did that on purpose to show everybody what a c t stroker crank looks like...ted
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Great shot! This is one of my favorite "out of shape" picsSuperman wears Chuck Norris pajamas
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Great photos
I wish that I had a picture of a circle track car at a run what ya brung race at Lebanon Vally Speedway here in Upstate NY about 1965. A blown Olds, if I recall had a pan failure right in front of me during some hot warm up laps. The hood also failed when the blower came out the top as well. I don't ever recall so much shrapnel form a blown motor.Dave W
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08-15-2009 02:04 PM #15
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There's nothing like a shot of "Wild Willie" coming off the line sideways.
That one must have been "bothersome" as he had both hands on the wheel.
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