Before it was known as Dragonsnake, Carroll Shelby rented this Cobra to MGM Studios for Viva Las Vegas. After its brief movie career, CSX2019 wearing a "Sun Gleam Viking Blue" metalflake paint job, stopped the clocks at 12.81/108.95 to set the A/SSP record at the 1964 AHRA Winternationals.
From the murky depths of Cold War paranoia comes this miniature nuclear battery. 31 of Uncle Sam's finest for junior to assemble, a masterstroke of polystyrene propaganda.
As a child I was enthralled by futuristic images under the misguided presumption that this was tomorrow.
Lindberg's offerings from the height of the monster model craze.
A station wagon was never too far from the action at the strip. The Trip making the trip to Irwindale.
Ford powered dragsters were certainly in the minority during the 1960's, but that didn't mean they weren't competitive. The Brand Ford Special AA/FD at Lions with SOHC 427 power.
I missed Kojak bubblegum cards the first time 'round, my juvenile mind was busily immersed in a world of unfinished model kits.
Distracting bikini clad chicks don't help reaction times. Perhaps FoMoCo strategically positioned her as a booby trap ?
Fremont 1963
Here's a dragster that has drawn a blank with the Magnetic Brain. With its black paint and distinctive Black Hand logo it should be fairly easy to identify. Anybody out there have any clues ?
Gary Gabelich giving the Scoundrel top fuel dragster the once over at Bakersfield in 1966. Four years later Gabelich would set the world land speed record in the rocket powered "Blue Flame". His speed of 622.407 mph remained unbeaten until 1983.
Nerves of steel and a total disregard for personal safety were required to drive a 1959 Dodge on two wheels.
"There won't be any excuses to the young fellow with the channelled '32 that lives down the road about how this car was meant to cross the winding roads of Europe not burn rubber for three hundred feet."
No you are not looking at a Bonneville streamliner. This is the Kharkov 6, a Russian record breaker from 1952. Perhaps the KGB had a few spies on the salt ?
"Victory and death lie closer together
Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of the N.A.R.T Ferrari 330P. The Mexican's fearless driving style was fueled, in part, by his secret culinary weapon. Tabasco Sauce !!!!
An earlier incarnation of Lew Arrington's Brutus. The background action is always captivating in these pictures.
The absolutely stunning Fred Hurst Opel gasser receiving some TLC between rounds. This photo comes from a fantastic site : http://drags.lookskool.com/index.html 
Cecil County Dragway 1970.
Photo: Roy Gerritson
You can bet when Fiat launched the Topolino in 1937 they didn't have this in mind. Mondello & Matsubara tearing it up at Lions.
Funny cars actually looked like their road-going relatives in 1968. There's no mistaking the Blair's Speed Shop flopper, even if it was spelled out between the flower power headlights.
By the time the Blackwood, Eckard & Kirk Charger hit the strip the gasser wars were well and truly over. To the casual observer the Rod Shop entry had the appearance of a funny car. However, underneath things weren't so funny, it was all gasser.
