Birds with Wings! (old original pictures)

[railrider]

I saw this on line and thought I would share! Cool picture! :drool:

 

[railrider]

Re: Birds with Wings!



Quote from Mopar Muscle on Facebook about the above picture!
"While most of us are familiar with the drag and NASCAR heroes of the ’60s, not everyone is so familiar with the Mopars of land speed racing. In the realm of production-based cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats, the Mopar stalwart was Norm Thatcher. His first 156-mph record was in a ’58 Plymouth, then he ran both ’61 and ’62 Dodge Darts with a variety of blown and unblown wedges, one of them running 191.890 mph one time. This photo is the Van Nuys, California, garage scene in Thatcher’s shop with his ’63 Plymouths, one Hilborn-injected and Weiand-blown, the other a crossram 426. Thatcher was famous for bringing multiple engines to each race with hopes of records in many classes, and his ’63 fleet included a blown 440ci wedges (before a production 440 was available), two blown 470ci strokers, a Hilborn-injected 513ci wedge, an injected 426, and a carbureted 426. For 1964 he changed to blown Hemi power in a ’64 Plymouth, and set a record at 205.56 mph, which at the time was the fastest pass over the standing kilo for a production-bodied car"

 

[gunnar]

Very cool.

 

[mcmopar]

I've seen that top pic before - too cool! :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

 

[railrider]

Here are some old Drag Racing Poloroids that belong to my wifes uncle. They are from about 1971 era!

 

[gunnar]

Those polaroids have held up well. Nice shots.

 

[glhcarl]

Great stuff, love those old photo!

Thank for sharing.

 

[railrider]

Yeah she kept them in a envelope together. She says he also has a lot of old 8MM reals of Linda Vaughn, & Jungle Pam! grrrrr! I am hoping he will get them out eventually so I can convert them to a DVD! :yesnod:

 

[george68hemirr]

nice

 

[SomeCarGuy]

Nothing much there. Just a few million in iron pictured.

 

[moparchris]

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing. The wingcars in the top picture is a great one with the Chrysler water tower in the back.

 

[3BIRDS1X]

Dude!

 

[69hemibeep]

Sweet :cheers: I'm going to look at my old pics from the early 70s and see if there are any worth adding

 

[peresvet24]

very nice pics :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

 

[69hemibeep]

Beeline dragway down here it was an AHRA track

 

[peresvet24]

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: I like old photos

 

[railrider]

Feel free to right click on my pictures and save them if you like. Don't see stuff like this much anymore. :cheers:

 

[moparchris]

Beeline dragway down here it was an AHRA track

Very cool Bob! Its a shame that a lot of the tracks have closed over the years.

 

[Steve]

Excellent pics

 

[69hemibeep]

Beeline dragway down here it was an AHRA track

Very cool Bob! Its a shame that a lot of the tracks have closed over the years.

I had allot of fun there as a kid