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No ID comin' at ya

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Bob Creitz strapping Steve Carbone in on the rollers at Lions.

 

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Crossley-Williams-Swann with Wayne King in the seat. Shot from the tower roof at OCIR in 1967.

Safford-Gaide-Ratican "Sour Sisters" so-called shark car (not to be confused with the Adams & McEwen "Shark Car") at Bakersfield in 1966.

Mike Sorokin in the fables Surfers car at Pomona in 1966.

 

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Jim Dunn in his "Green Mountain Boys" (Woody Trick Car II) at Lions in 1967. This was one of just two 1967 Woody (RCE) "trick cars" so named for the unconventional front suspension. The first car built as a RCS factory car. The first driver is Steve Carbone.

Then Gene Adams put his motor in the car and John Mulligan drove it for a bit. Then the car went back to Woody. In the meantime Tommy Allen had allot of miles on his RCS car and it is suggested by Mulligan that he go buy a Woody car.

Tommy goes up to RCS and comes back with the Trick Car and runs it for a bit then he bought it from Woody. Then Tommy gets drafted in '67 and Larry Huff and Marlene, Tommy's wife sell the car to Tom McEwen. Tom runs it for a while then it gets sold to the Anderson Brothers in Texas and a young up and comer, somebody by the name of Kenny Bernstein drives it. Then the Anderson Brothers sell the car to a local guy and the local guy crashes and is killed at a local track.

The second car is the one that Jim Dunn drove (pictured above). It was green and had a nose. Jim wasn't happy with the front end and took it off and put on a conventional front end. From there that car went up north and was eventually crashed as well. The front end of the second car rests on the ceiling of Tom Wilford's garage.

 

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"Smothers Bros. - Beach Boys" AA/FD (Dwight Salisbury up) at Irwindale in 1970.

 

 

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Zane Shubert in the hard charging Shubert in the Shubert & Herbert small block Chevy fueler at Lions in 1965.

 

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Don Long chassied, Tom Hanna bodied car of Gordon Jenner from Calgary at Lions in 1969.

 

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No ID at Indy

 

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Larry Faust with the "Jungle 3" (Mooneyham-Jackson-Faust) AA/FD at Bakersfield in 1966.

Mike Kuhl's fueler at Lions in 1970. Not sure who's driving as Kuhl had several during this time period. One thing for sure, its not Olson.

 

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Freeman & Sons and Press Bailey Jr. Fuel car (George Boltoff's old AA/GD car). Al Freeman Sr. behind car Al Freeman Jr. Driving at Lions circa 1965.

After Herb Reis and and Steve Porter split up in the middle of 1963, Porter partnered with a friend named Tom Chambers. This car was the result of the new partnership. It ran an Oldsmobile in 1964, and a Chrysler in 1965. In 1966 Porter bought out Chambers, and this car was run with Bill Adair with a Chrysler at that time. Porter was always the driver of the car. The photo was probably taken at Lions in January 1964.

 

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Holland & Guedel Autmotive Specialties at OCIR. Very low driver position.

 

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Blueprints for the Masters & Richter Fuller car.

 

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The short lived Mr. Ed (Ed Willis) AA/FD at OCIR. Willis was better know for his hard charging Blown Fuel Hydro drag boats. He also made funny car bodies and fiberglass dragster trailers.

 

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