Vintage drag photos

[Peter426]

[Peter426]

[racer67x]

Originally Posted by Peter426

Hmmm...seen plenty of photos of Art Arfons' jet dragsters but never this jet engine-powered Corvette! Have you?

their is a pretty good reason you've never seen a pic of that jet 'vette...it wasn't very old when it crashed at Pittsburgh International killing the driver.
it was the only fatal accident at PID which wasn't far from my house.
found this info,probably more on the web somewhere..
http://www.draglist.com/draglist/sea...&VIEW=Extended
http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/fo...p?db=ct&n=3222
after finally joining the site a short while back I didn't expect to make such a morbid first post..but want to thank you for putting up all the Bill Truby pics,he is still doing okay and still taking cool pics,talked to him a couple weeks ago!

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Verne_Frantz

I wish I would have thought to bring a camera with me (or someone with one) back when I was running M/P. I just went there to race and never even thought about it. The only photos I have are from later beginning in the '80s when I was running the nostalgia stuff.

Originally Posted by Peter426

You're one of many, Verne.

Pete

Originally Posted by earntaz

It's too bad we learn later in life to record or take pictures of the iron we've owned. I look back at the cars/trucks I've had and ask myself ... "why didn't you take more pictures DA?" Oh well --- TAZ

That’s one of my few regrets as well. But – in my (our) defense – it was tough back then, as a pre-teen. I had to borrow Mom & Dad’s “good” camera (or use my little Brownie), and then you had to come up with film somehow, and then beg Mom or Dad to go get the film developed….only to find they didn’t turn out for some reason.

Certainly not like today –

K

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by racer67x

their is a pretty good reason you've never seen a pic of that jet 'vette...it wasn't very old when it crashed at Pittsburgh International killing the driver.
it was the only fatal accident at PID which wasn't far from my house.
found this info,probably more on the web somewhere..

Art used to bring his "Green Monster" jet car(s) to Stanton (aka McBrides aka Edmore aka Central Michigan Dragway) aka Mid Michigan Motorplex.

There used to be a great big oak tree behind the starting line. Art fired up his car and killed half the tree. He came back the next year and killed the other half.

There also used to be a plank fence behind the starting line. The planks were attached to the back side of the supports, so when he hit the burner it blew the planks across the road and into the potato field on the other side.

When he came back the next year they had reattached the fence planks to the front side of the supports.

My dad started racing at Stanton the year before it was paved (1956 or so). There was a concrete starting pad and you ran off that into the grass. You also had to stop on occasion to let the airplanes land.

K

[Peter426]

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