It probably vibrated off the car and killed a bunch of people.
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Post Your Vintage Drag Racing Pics!!
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Scamp Rhonda
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I was at the strip for Evel Knievel's jump. I didn't even know he was going to be there. It was a side show that wasn't needed to bring in people. The dragstrip was very popular back then and I was there for the racing, the sights sounds and overall excitement of being within feet of some of the best racers in the world. Then they started putting houses all around it and fun was done! I moved near by in '75 and could hear the funny cars and top fuel dragsters when I woke up Sunday mornings. Sadly it all came to an end in '76. I still live in the same house but have bitter feelings about the dragstrip being shutdown.
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Would take much bigger cajones than mine to pilot this thing.
33IMP
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You think that's bad?!?
Google Magic Muffler Fiat
Early hemi powered Fuel altered.
Unconventional
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We were at Orange County Int Raceway for one of their Nitro Match Race Shows.
Gary Beck rolls out to stage, burn-out, pre-stage, GREEN, BANG! goes the blower.
We watched the blower fly so high it disappeared into the darkness.
We never did see where it came down.
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Scamp Rhonda
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That's outrageously cool! A friend in high school dad's tow car was a '66 Hemi Charger. We used to joke about his tow car being faster than, I believe his Super Stock RoadRunner, if I remember correctly. Lol. Used to watch them run at Minnesota.
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Unconventional
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Perhaps if ALL Chargers of that vintage had come with similar hood ornaments, I would have liked the Chargers
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Scamp Rhonda
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They kinda looked like a nice set of hold-down pins to me!Perhaps if ALL Chargers of that vintage had come with similar hood ornaments, I would have liked the Chargers
I went to a drag racing memories show today and picked up some pictures of my buddies from back in the day.
These are pictures of my car and my friend's 73 Roadrunner. We ran as a team in the weekly bracket racing.
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