At the 1960 AHRA Nationals in Kansas City, this is the Greek's
Chizler fueler.
Tommy Ivo's twin Buick in May of 1960.
August 1964. Jere Wilson in his Olds powered fueler getting under
way at
Rocky Mountain Dragway in Denver.
Oh, I couldn't leave this one out. This is the Heth & Thompson
fueler taken in 1960.
The dragsters were much shorter back then.
Here's a very crude version of a dragster in 1956. It was built
for a very
big driver. I'm not sure it ever made a trip down the drag strip.
Sometimes they were a bit crude, but ever racer had his own ideas
on how to go fast.
This was taken at Continental Divide Raceways in Castle Rock, Colorado
sometime around 1960.
This is the way we used to run back in 1959. This is Warren Steffan's
348
Chevy in a Chassis Research chassis. Note the safety gear Steffan
is wearing.
This car ran on 95% Nitro.
This Continental airplane engine four banger from
Wichita Kansas was owned by Nickelson Machine. This was taken at
Continental Divide Raceways near Denver, Colorado in 1959. This
car was
re-built the next year. (See pics below).
Here's the next generation of the Nickelson dragster. An absolute
masterpiece
in 1960. These were taken at the 1960 AHRA Nationals at Kansas
City. At that
time NHRA had banned fuel, so there were a lot of fuel cars at
this race.
This car had a stainless chassis. It had a blown Continental airplane
engine in it.
This isn't the best shot, but I was pretty young when I took it.
The date was
1955 at Lowry Field in Denver, Colorado. The NHRA Drag Safari came
to Denver
and this shows what a dragster looked like in 1955. Kenz &
Leslie owned
several Land Speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. They always
ran Ford
engines. This car ran single and double flatheads and was used
primarily to
test the engines that would be used in their Bonneville Streamliner.
This is a shot of a later K&L car. This is a Woody Gilmore
chassis that Kenz &
Leslie fitted with the Ford Cammer engine.
Ron Leslie (son of Roy Leslie) is currently building a duplicate
of this car.
Oh, I forgot this one. Here's Ronnie Leslie driving the Kenz &
Leslie Ford
digger in August of 1964.
Here's The first Funny Car that K&L ran. This was in 1966.
It's a '66 Comet
and ran very well. Of course, it's Ford powered.
Here's Ron Leslie getting under way at Rocky Mountain Dragway in
Denver.
This is the K&L Cougar.
Side shot of the K&L Cougar taken in 1969.
This is the Guzman & Ward Corvair funny car. They ran a big
block Chevrolet
and were very competitive. This was taken before the car was lettered.
The
car was called Assassination. Taken at Mountain Vu Dragway near
Denver in
1969.
Another shot of the Guzman/Ward car at the other end of the quarter
mile.
This is one of the earlier Assassination cars of Guzman & Ward.
Their
equipment was always first class and they never had a sponsor.
This was taken in 1970, I think. As you can see, Roger Guzman's
cars were
always first class cars. Art Ward always drove and the two racers
were very
good friends. Art died a few years ago.
Jack Chrisman - "Howard Cam Twin Bear" - Denver, 1959
Pete, What can I say? These are some of the best pics I've seen
in a long time.
Thanks a million for sending them over...Mart.
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