And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Amazing, I lived a mile North of Half Moon bay in El Grenada for a while back in the early 80's and I don't remember hearing a word about any drag strip. Then again, There isn't a whole lot I remember about that whole decade anymore so I shouldn't be so surprised. Apparently while I was so busy killing brain cells for entertainment purposes back then I knocked out some of the important ones...
Possibly when he hit the throttle the engine cause the frame to torque over? Otherwise maybe just the perspective of the picture. I drove a front engined dragster though with a much much lower powered engine than that and it was the most fun to drive of the three that I had. The other two were rear engine and with rack and pinion steering rather than the funny car type steering the front engine dragster had. The first rule of driving a front engined dragster was to point it straight down the track since there wasn't enough weight on the front end to steer for the first couple of hundred feet.
A Cadillac, with a push bumper?
ReplyDeleteIf he took his foot off the gas pedal, he wouldn't have to shout.
ReplyDeleteMotor is not running there. Yes, caddy pusher. That was the car then. What a fast driver.
ReplyDeletePaul B
Maybe he's making his own motor sound - WWWWAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
DeleteI'd settle for the yellow pickup in the back.
ReplyDeleteMe, too.
DeleteAmazing, I lived a mile North of Half Moon bay in El Grenada for a while back in the early 80's and I don't remember hearing a word about any drag strip.
ReplyDeleteThen again, There isn't a whole lot I remember about that whole decade anymore so I shouldn't be so surprised.
Apparently while I was so busy killing brain cells for entertainment purposes back then I knocked out some of the important ones...
There's no dragstrip....it was at the Half Moon bay airport runway.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the left tire hard against the tub but not so the right tire?
ReplyDeletePossibly when he hit the throttle the engine cause the frame to torque over? Otherwise maybe just the perspective of the picture. I drove a front engined dragster though with a much much lower powered engine than that and it was the most fun to drive of the three that I had. The other two were rear engine and with rack and pinion steering rather than the funny car type steering the front engine dragster had. The first rule of driving a front engined dragster was to point it straight down the track since there wasn't enough weight on the front end to steer for the first couple of hundred feet.
Deletecould possibly because of the drive shaft
Deletein the early days of drag racing they used airport runways.
ReplyDeleteOnce when I had a pit pass Don "the snake" Prudhome spoke to me.
ReplyDeleteHe said "get out of the way"!
"driveshaft"... LOL
ReplyDeleteOpen headers. LOUD
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