Drag cars from days gone...

[jewels]

here is a couple of prominant drags cars seen at Calder park and Heathcote many years ago back in the 80s

Geoff Paton in his LS-7454 big block powered MK1
this car ran mid to low 9s



The next car Wayne Topp sometimes called 'mello yellow'

again a big block powered car which also ran then the very new type of carby called a 'predator' which looked like a square box :)

Later sold and repainted pastal pink with rego plates 'zarn'

[jewels]

This car image up first is from the 1970 Nationals at Surfers in QLD

This known as the joe pirotta and charlie caruana car

at surfers it was in more 'tamer' trim than what it was fitted with much later in its life

Here it ran in 'Gas Eliminator' through it away with a red light In those days ran in the high to mid 11 second zone with a small block ford back in 1970 !


the second picture is how it developed 10 or so years on into a blown alcohol burning big block ford overhead cammer!

running in the mid 8s @ over 160 mph!

i believe the car is still around and has yet gone through another development stage... but i have no info...yet

this photo taken at the Victorian hot rod show

[jewels]

Another one maybe not as well known as the 'satisfaction' but still a force to be reckoned with and still built back in 1971

fittted with a 302 Ford windsor v8 and manual transmission ran 12s at 119 mph

[jewels]

Regular at calder park back in the 70s yet another running in 'gas elim'

this car even driven by wolfgangs wife carolyn
nice 63/64 2 door

notice still running vic rego

[zombie289]

Thanks for posting those Jewels, The reason I originally bought a MK1 was to go drag racing...(never happened)

Anyways 'Satisfaction' to this day is THE best sounding Doorslammer I ever heard!

I remember seeing Pattons car run bumper dragging 9.30's and mellow yellow was super tough too. Patons car ended up in canberra w/ a blown 454...

Dont forget the Street Cleaner that ran 10's all day back in the mid 80's...

Oh and the plates on the pink 429 repowered 4dr were ZARN.... ;)

BTW Jewels, next time u see Ian Virgo, get him to drag out his copy of the oz hot rodding mag from the 60's with the Ron Hodgson 64 2dr GT (his 64 bathurst car) that ended up w/ a 260 windsor and a Fiat 4spd....

[jewels]

yes good to see someone else remembers those days :)

thanx for the tip i will get virgo onto it

any old mags like that i try to get ans scan and upload etc

[jewels]

remember this car ?

raced regularly at calder park

not a 67 model tho as we 'all' know :)

[zombie289]

Yes the street cleaner ...Man I remember how tough that car was...Wasn't it painted white later on? I remember when it met it's demise with the guardrail at calder maybe in 89 or so... I heard that drago now has a street driven 69 camaro with a pump gas 700 inch rat motor....

What about Slubbers pink 63 2dr that went bottom 10's w/ a nitrous'd clevo about the early 90's...that car disappeared too.... He ended up w/ that silver RX-4 with the 400 chev that was the old manuel galea car.

Does that cobalt blue 240 still run that was a C/Gas car a while back? (big wheelstander)..used to love that thing...

I also remember the maroon 220 full tube car (i think it was on eGay recently) with clevo and a top loader, big tubs. I remember that guy side stepping the clutch on Northborne Ave. in canberra at the summernats one year and leaving blacktracks for 150m or so...... (In an impromptu street race w/ another Mk1 corty that had a nitrous'd 265 hemi)

[jewels]

Yes the street cleaner ...Man I remember how tough that car was...Wasn't it painted white later on? I remember when it met it's demise with the guardrail at calder maybe in 89 or so... I heard that drago now has a street driven 69 camaro with a pump gas 700 inch rat motor....

What about Slubbers pink 63 2dr that went bottom 10's w/ a nitrous'd clevo about the early 90's...that car disappeared too.... He ended up w/ that silver RX-4 with the 400 chev that was the old manuel galea car.

Does that cobalt blue 240 still run that was a C/Gas car a while back? (big wheelstander)..used to love that thing...

I also remember the maroon 220 full tube car (i think it was on eGay recently) with clevo and a top loader, big tubs. I remember that guy side stepping the clutch on Northborne Ave. in canberra at the summernats one year and leaving blacktracks for 150m or so...... (In an impromptu street race w/ another Mk1 corty that had a nitrous'd 265 hemi)

so that camaro is drago i certainly have seen it lately
the galea car is still silver and still races
im not about th coalt blue car...

maroon car, yes that was for sale recently on ebay

now that hemi cortina thats interesting was that are victorian car?

[zombie289]

yes it is, the guys is a mopar nut, has a 360 in it now i believe

[jewels]

ar ok that now rings a bell
its painted custom multi coloured
sits right on the deck

i reckon i got a pic of that

[zombie289]

yeah me thinkso
convo pros?? heaps of spray (NOS) too if i remember??

[jewels]

it has been raced by a husband -wife team

regularly at heathcote

$35K

HERE IS LINK (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1965-Mark-1-Ford-Cortina_W0QQitemZ170209749111QQihZ007QQcategoryZ67 63QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

this the one yer thinking of ?

[zombie289]

Yup, it used to be just yellow when it had the 265 i remember.

[jewels]

i have information that 'satisfaction' is still garaged in melbourne

and has just had a new engine rebuild

with lower comp ratio

and new maggy

just waiting on a new clutch etc and it will return to a run up the strip !

[zombie289]

:) :) :) :) Cant wait for this!!
BTW did you know that Joe's Nephew is Steven Vines who runs a TC cortina Sports Sedan with a 347 BOSS engine??

[jewels]

yes i did
and there is a new engine on the way for that car :)

[jewels]

burnout pic is from a meeting at Heathcote park many years ago mid 90s id say


other pic is the trio in the beginning first go the car back in 1969 then fitted the 289 windsor

[zombie289]

heres a few more...any info on the lotus schemed one???
680 681 682

[Dr Danger]

My God they are ugly! Gimme that yellow/purple one please.

[jewels]

there great zombie thanx for uploading them :)

[Toby]

My God they are ugly! Gimme that yellow/purple one please.

:lol

Yeah - they wanna be bloomin quick if you have to drive round at that altitude!!

Anyone got any idea of times from back then?

[jewels]

zombie will be more accurate

but mid to low 11s was what satisfaction was doing in the 70s

[zombie289]

I believe Satisfaction went 10.90 odd best in the 302 guise...8.6 maybe at 176 sounds about the number for the AA/GAS blown cammer combo

[jewels]

zombie
reconize these cars ?

i dont know em...

[zombie289]

The first one is a very famous uk car aint it?? Apparently the worlds quickest rover V8 powered drag car??

2nd one I dunno.... pommie car too??

[cfab302]

hi guys,im new here so hope im doin this right.the second car ive never seen.the first belongs to steve green,its his second mk1 after he went through the lights upside down at 130 in his previous wheelieing crowd pleaser.the new car is basicly a pro stock style chassis,engine is based on a rover but god knows which bit,,its crazy,,called a wildcat engine.it makes 585+400 nitrous.i think his current times are 7-80 @172 in the quarter.check it out at sgracing.co.uk.....shane.

[jewels]

hell cfab and :welcome:

love to hear all about old race cars and there history

thanx for the info

there is another cortina MK3 ish with another wildcat/rover engine to

nice paint job sponsered by a welding company

have you any race car images, times etc to share ?

[jewels]

some pics of the UK car

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3436/3294913675_084a207105.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3306/3295736888_322df87767.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3387/3295731826_b861e9d928.jpg?v=0

[nomad]

Regular competitor at Calder in the late sixties I would reckon, this is the one with the Holden red motor. ........... and REGULARLY driven by the lady, bloody fast too!


Regular at calder park back in the 70s yet another running in 'gas elim'

this car even driven by wolfgangs wife carolyn
nice 63/64 2 door

notice still running vic rego

[Dr Danger]

This was found on another site. It was taken from a thread discussing the possibility of Adelaide getting a drag strip soon, so one can only vaguely assume it was a SA car? No other details.
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[jewels]

not remember that car at all

but thanx dr danger for upping it

[zombie289]

wasnt there a car in vic running in the early 90's w/ a chop like that

[jewels]

here is a couple i found recently

notice the blue Mk1 with all the stripes ? that became craig geddes car

some early mellow yellow pics

who is the guy leaning into the bonnet ? who looks very familiar ...

[220 GT]

Hey

Does anyone remember a MKII yellow drag car with trumpets coming out of the bonnet the car called "THE MOBSTER"

It used run at Eastern Creek in the early 90s

It was a pealer

[zombie289]

Ahhh Love ol Mello Yello...Hey was it you jewels saying its being rebuilt back to yellow??

[Dr Danger]

who is the guy leaning into the bonnet ? who looks very familiar ...

At the risk of sounding like a complete fool, it's not Phil Reed is it? Or one of the Reed clan?

[jewels]

Hey

Does anyone remember a MKII yellow drag car with trumpets coming out of the bonnet the car called "THE MOBSTER"

It used run at Eastern Creek in the early 90s

It was a pealer

yes i do remember that car i may have an old pic ....mmmm might


zombie, no not me but thats interesting to here

[zombie289]

damn it damn it damn it!!.........lookie what wuz at Calder last friday!! ...
See it at 5.30s in... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-QxI0pcViY

G-QxI0pcViY

[jewels]

oh no :cry:

damn damn

i missed it

great to see it out tho :):clap:magic

[zombie289]

Who the hell knows anything about this one?? All I know is that it was Melbourne based.....Never heard of it!
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[jewels]

thats a real rippa gasser

not heard of that car either

love to see it restored and back on the track ...if it still exists

[55jim]

my dragracing historian tell's me that the car raced out of melbourne in the early 70's, it started as a street car in light metallic blue and ended up as in the photo. it was in featured in a early 70's mag, the car was sponsored by the owner's wife who was a hairdresser ( carolyn ) thats all he can think of at the moment. the photo was at A.I.R .
more info when he find's it.

jim.

[jewels]

do you reckon this is the car before it went under more modifications

there is a post on the first page....

The Stuth cortina


Regular at calder park back in the 70s yet another running in 'gas elim'

this car even driven by wolfgangs wife carolyn
nice 63/64 2 door

notice still running vic rego

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[Dr Danger]

Wonder if those chrome strips on the above car are genuine? Don't really look it do they?

[zombie289]

Bingo, that is the same car! I emailed the guy who posted the pic on the interwebs and he gave the vital clue..It was originally 6 banger powered when it became a racecar.....

[cortispazz]

i know it is a old thread but does anyone have any info on a holden red 6 powered cortina?????

[tedidesign]

not sure, but the "stuth" one is running HK holden rear rims, so obviously an erly holden diff, might be red powered

[Mk1 GT]

A radiator repair business in Acasia Ridge? Brisbane in the late 80's or early 90's had a matt black Mk1 with I believe a 460 in it. Unsure of a name but I seem to recall 9's as a 1/4 time. after the car was to twisted to keep all 4 wheels on the ground when standstill, the motor etc was transferred into a street regoed matt black XD ute. Anyone know about this one?

[cortispazz]

sweet just keep trawlin the net just chasin info as im currently settin up a mk2 for nostalgia drags runnin a red motor basically be mid mounted so might make a better sports sedan see how i goes i guess