interesting photos from Rods and Sods

the wagon wheels sorta throw me... there aren't any indications of an engine, or horse hookups, so is this mechaincal? Or just gravity drive?

Cool signature gimmick, the Moon Eyes

Lions and bears pulling this cart.. .. makes me wonder how those sheep are dealing with the team mates on the pull

best christmas tree ever?

Bang Shift finds really cool drag racing, here's a trio of awesome

Hayden Proffitt and the funny car Rebel. Ya gotta hand it to anyone who looks at the brick aerodynamics and says they'll make it win.

EJ Potter, that madman

Turbo Stang, powered by a drag axle from Turbonique and this is the first time I've seen this photo.. awesome

For lots of dragracing photos and videos, go see the tremendous coverage at Bang Shift http://www.bangshift.com/blog/

Getting my day started out right, 1970-71 vintage drag racing

Gasser Madness

Via: http://www.czombieblog.com/2010/03/g-s-s-e-r-m-d-n-e-s-s.html

Magnetic brain found another image of the Austin Grassi Fuel Cuda

The above was posted yesterday... gotta check out http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/ for great dragsters!

Above was one I found on Magentic Brain in January: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/finally-50s-and-60s-blog-about.html

He was there, Denis Scott... and photographed the dragsters during the heyday of the early 70's, lucky!

Above from the photographer, Denis Scott, the Chi-Town Hustler driven by Ron Colson (which is featured in Mopar Action this month)... offset the driver to lower the roof because the driver wasn't over the driveshaft hump.. and was just restored and cloned. One for the museum and one for the road to tour with at nostalgia events. The Coil name in the owners.. is Austin Coil, you know, the crew chief and tuner for John Force throughout John's astounding career.

The immediately above I found on Skylar's facepage, and Denis was looking through here and let me know that he was the photographer, and filled me in a bit about his photography career, and sent me a couple more:

From Denis, "I was hired by the Chi-Town people to shoot that Hustler photo. I believe that was sponsored by Snap-on tools, I remember the Snap-on girl was there.

I was actually working for hot rod magazines then, Drag Racing USA, I did a lot for them. I was also the track photographer for Rt 30 dragway back then, can you believe that I did this attached poster in 1970!

It was a long career, I travelled all over the USA and Canada shooting big races for magazines in the glory years of drag racing, lot's of fun, but not a lot of money.
But I don't regret it, I used to drag race before all of that, my favorite car I built was my A/A 39 Fiat. These two attached photo's are of my Fiat, but not when I was racing it.
I actually seen it in the pits at the track I was shooting for a few years after I sold it, I shot it sitting there and made these photo's in Photoshop.
Come to think of it, I didn't sell it, I traded it for a 32 Ford 3 window finished street coupe, I miss that also.
This 40 Ford was mine also, why do we sell these things??"

http://www.denisscott.com/ is his website, but he already said the dragster photos aren't there (DAMN!)

AFX Marlin... never heard of it before

Preston Honea's

Finally, a 50's and 60's blog about dragsters, Roth, racing, 60's groovy culture, perfect hot rods, and funny cars!

George Barris made a motorized surfboard? ! ? His "Surf Woody" toured with it ont he national circuit http://www.barris.com/gallery_cars/Kustoms_HotRods/gallery_surfwoody.html it had a small Moon fuel tank, a 2 cylinder McCulloch engine

Full story on page 136 of Big Book of Barris: http://books.google.com/books?id=ATjy1tKxfjYC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=barris+surfboard&source=bl&ots=Iy2K-Kf4gr&sig=Ljw2_aOAZQSMuB5yd6UrcY96mKA&hl=en&ei=UwNKS5KSFofgsQO4mrT1Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=barris%20surfboard&f=false

She is in front of Roth's Road Agent, and she is wearing a Watson's mini skirt... a combo of customizers, and with a beehive hairdoo too... wow, what 60's!

Just a sample of the cool stuff! Look through all of it; http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/

HEY MB, if you're reading, love your blog! You don't have an email I could use to tell you though.

Jay Leno talks to Don Prudhomme about the 70 Hemicuda and transporter

Via: http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/ ( Jon finds cool stuff!)
I'm even just as amazed at the toy! Pretty cool!

This video starts with about 20 seconds of commercial, so quick, go get a cold drink to enjoy while you watch!

For a photo gallery of Don's hemicuda and transporter that I took at SEMA: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/don-prudhommes-funny-car-hauler-1967.html

I also recommend you take a look at Tere's post, Don invited her to hop inside the hauler as he showed her how it was restored: http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2009/11/sema-celebrities.html

Top photo, a photographer with no fear, bottom a streamliner beer truck

For the full 8 photo gallery of the above event: http://parkoffka.ru/item/2009/12/14/avariya_na_dreg_zaezde_8_fotografii

Both via: http://mikespock.squarespace.com/rev

Don Prudhomme's funny car hauler, 1967 Dodge C-700

Don was hooking up the batteries in order to turn on the radio...

So he could show some people how things worked inside, and then asked my girlfriend http://justakargal.blogspot.com/ to hop up inside and was showing her the radio, a/c and stuff...

To explain why Don bought a 67 truck in 69, I need to tell you that before Don bought it used, it was the hauler for Sox and Martin, and you can see that here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/nikollas-digs-up-coolest-photos-of-drag.html

For a restoration story on the hauler, and a video from inside it where Don drove a couple reporters to lunch: http://www.nhra.com/blog/dragster-insider/page/10/ just a 1/4 of the way down the page, since the direct links don't work

For a photo of Tom McEwens "Mongoose" dragster funny car hauler: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsg2YwtV1q2dURIJcGkA2EnkVJgkfT-KQJhg7_7V82sd98WCpXlnbFkJcHgTiTL6ydoDYgLd_sDjfep6SROpIMVklRBWHgmRQ-7_TEqkL6bQeVEz98jUA-txn_pLBGnULs9k3p1422Rl0/s1600-h/hfmkjg.bmp

To see a great interview that Jay Leno did of Don, this Cuda, and transporter: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/jay-leno-talks-to-don-prudhomme-about.html

If you love haulers and transporters, then look down to the 2nd half of my hauler posts: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/hauler