Want to see the Pomona dragstrip with 1964 action? With Tommy Ivo's, Don Garlits', and the Greer Black Prudhomme top fuel rails? Plus Dean Jeffries Manta Ray in action. What if you have to put up with a 60's Annette and Frankie Beach Party type movie? well, it was worth it to get these shots

The movie starts with the bunch of surfer-dragster-dancer kids going to the beach to surf. That trailer has very era correct art, just take a look at the "Monster shirts" of Mouse, Jeffries, Roth, and Von Dutch... especially the Mouse art http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/mouse-monster-shirts.html

 and here are a couple close ups

 And the same artist did the set work of Don Rickles' character's bar

 below photo has a couple cool dragsters on the wall behind the musician's stage

Dean Jeffries' Manta Ray in action, and towing a dragster http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-did-dean-jeffries-mantaray-have-289.html

the above C&T Automotive slingshot has a word painted just above the parachute, "Britannia" but it only appears on the car half the time this dragster is on screen

The movie edittors must have been going to Movie "Grade School" becuase they were real bad. The clip I got from a drag race sequence was flipped backwards, notice the above dragsters lettering

 Tommy Ivo's famous "Showboat" , in the below video, which has the movie clip of it running down the track, Tommy explains how he engineered the 4 engines to work simultaneously

Don Rickles in the red jumpsuit, his character runs the dragstrip and owns the bar "Big Drag's Pit Stop" at the beginning of this post

 There were about 10 sligshot dragsters on the movie set, the Manta Ray, and the Show Boat

  Pontiac Tempest or Bonneville wagon for a team push car, way cool rims

And they even went so nuts as to include a guy in a chimp suit thoughout the entire movie, and even had it drive a Harley Davidson Topper scooter, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-did-harley-owners-ever-reinvent.html but with a sidecar... I've never seen a Topper with a sidecar... quite kooky

Connie Kalitta driving the Bounty Hunter, the only drag racing triple crown winner in history

He won the 1967 top fuel trophy in all 3 winter meets, the NHRA, the AHRA and NASCAR
photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/48455444@N08/4432541344/sizes/z/in/photostream/

The Long Beach Motorama had a great mock up of the Lions Dragstrip, and had 6 dragsters lined up, including the Stones Wood Cook Willys, Wild Willie Borch's Winged Express, and Jim Miles' Magic

 Ever see a Don Garlits seal of approval? I've never heard of it before. This is from the tunk of the Borsch dragster

Escondido Nitro Night was a blast

Just a couple photos to show you how big the crowd was. This side street is a full block, and between the buildings in the below photos is an alleyway, that is to tell you how large the area is

These are just a a couple of the photos, and none of the videos... they take to long to load, and it's late already.

A new photo of the Austin Grassi Fuel Cuda popped up

top one is from http://prova275.tumblr.com/page/57  bottom 2 were found on Magnetic Brain in early 2010 http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/

Carl Grimes' fantastic bus transporter... moves the team and the racecar, even sleeps them when on the road

found on a page about Carl's dragster and shop http://deansgarage.com/2011/1932-kranzler-sturm-roadster/

The team of Steinegger and Eshenbaugh are looked at on Dean's Garage

Two things about this image grabbed by attention... having the car number on the tire is cool. Easy to see, easy to change if you switch classes, and spares up space on the body for sponsors stickers or lettering. The other thing is the wind up key pushbar, I found one dragster in a video http://streetmachinemag.typepad.com/street_machine/ a couple months ago that had a wind up key, and no identification... maybe this was it

 http://deansgarage.com/2011/steinegger-eshenbaugh/