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Title: Vintage drag racing pics... Post by: Eric Ellis (57HotrodVW) on August 31, 2009, 15:24:01 pm Cool shots from the archives of a Texas VW racer. Some of you guys might recognize some names from "back in the day" - Bear Barrilleaux, Lyle Cherry, and Scotty McManus (remember his Fiat X1/9?)
Quote Quote from: Brandon Dye on Today at 03:19:26 (http://www.speedshots.net/tvwdra/forum/index.php?topic=1458.0) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592220.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592222.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592225.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592231.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592229.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592236.jpg) Quote Quote from: Brandon Dye on Today at 03:24:05 (http://www.speedshots.net/tvwdra/forum/index.php?topic=1458.0) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592237.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592235.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592233.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592232.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592221.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592223.jpg)(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592228.jpg) Title: Re: Vintage drag racing pics... Post by: Fastbrit on August 31, 2009, 15:26:22 pm Very cool, Eric! 8)
Title: Re: Vintage drag racing pics... Post by: speedwell on August 31, 2009, 15:46:48 pm this 's rick mc garity with is 67 race car ;)
(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/592221.jpg) Title: Re: Vintage drag racing pics... Post by: Eric Ellis (57HotrodVW) on September 12, 2009, 17:47:37 pm More cool stuff, courtesy of Carl Nolen:
Quote from: Carl Nolen Back in the late 70's, I was doing research on building a vw drag car. I tried to attend as many races as I could to see the cars of the day and how everyone was doing things. Here are a few pics that have survived time from a NHRA divisonal in 1980: This pic is of Scotty McManus: (http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq309/carlnolen/scotty.jpg) (http://www.tvwdra.org/forum) This is the chop top of Portman & Wells. Awesome chop top. Very well done. Where is that car today? There also was a ghia twin to this car. Saw both of them at the bug-in in the late 80's: (http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq309/carlnolen/portmanchop.jpg) (http://www.tvwdra.org/forum) The famous "Blue" car of Lyle Cherry. Maybe Ricky will tell of what happen to this car. I believe it is a block of metal sitting behind Lyle's shop: (http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq309/carlnolen/lylecherry.jpg) (http://www.tvwdra.org/forum) And, also the famous Bear: (http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq309/carlnolen/bear.jpg) (http://www.tvwdra.org/forum) I look back at it and wonder why I did not take more photos. This was your basic cheap little instamatic camera at the time. I had pics of Lyle's University VW, Inch Picher, Ligntning Bug, from a NHRA National event in the early 70's at Dallas International Motor Speedway, but lost them. Also, I had pics of Linda Vaughn. A major babe back in the day. But lost those too :'(. I remember being a 15 year old kid talking to her in the pits. Very, very nice lady and breath taking fiqure. Man-o-man. |