Those two ended up a legend of sorts, very sad that Jim's life ended tragically, They were a matched pair of showmanship!

jarvis1 wrote:

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Whatever became of Gary Beck and Frank Hawley? I think that's his name.

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 Frank ran a drag racing school at the Panoma Fair Grounds in California for many years.  Maybe he is still doing it.

The last I knew Beck was a housing contractor near LA and Frank Hawley had a drag racing school in Gainesville Fl and part time schools in Pomona Ca.

"If I remember correctly, and if they are still there."

 If is the biggest word in the dictionary.

-- Edited by RWW on Sunday 14th of December 2014 08:34:10 PM

sasquatch wrote:

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Great pics again , love those Chesrown Olds cars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That last pic is so typical of that torque!!

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   Think so ??   I thought he was getting out of my way………… I still remember his launch, it looks a whole lot different at track level.

 

  I'm in a 66 Chevelle  behind him in the other lane.

 

  The wagon is his Lubick Olds repainted in 1975.

-- Edited by RWW on Sunday 14th of December 2014 09:58:10 PM

Bob T wrote:

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Austin Coil used to say that ' Jungle Jim had the two best rides in drag racing' 

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Was there any chance of some kind of payout (in cash, parts or services) when running Holley, Edelbrock, Centerline, STP (for example) stickers on your drag car when racing at anything other than a true national event, at tracks like Cayuga or St Thomas?

There used to be a beautiful orange '69 Camaro that ran Cayuga regularly, and I think one of the reasons it appealed to me (over many other cars) was the fact that it didn't run any stickers on it. Although the car had a full chassis and was slammed with massive "meats" under the back, I could totally picture it as a street driven car. At an IHRA event held at Cayuga, the owner of the Camaro did put stickers on it, in hopes of some contingency money, but removed them after the event.

I never understood covering ones car with stickers if there was no chance of any real benefit. Advertising for a local car dealer, parts house, paint shop, tire shop etc I can understand, but coating a car in stickers "just because" .... that I don't get.

Am I missing something?

pint and a pound wrote:

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Was there any chance of some kind of payout (in cash, parts or services) when running Holley, Edelbrock, Centerline, STP (for example) stickers on your drag car when racing at anything other than a true national event, at tracks like Cayuga or St Thomas?

There used to be a beautiful orange '69 Camaro that ran Cayuga regularly, and I think one of the reasons it appealed to me (over many other cars) was the fact that it didn't run any stickers on it. Although the car had a full chassis and was slammed with massive "meats" under the back, I could totally picture it as a street driven car. At an IHRA event held at Cayuga, the owner of the Camaro did put stickers on it, in hopes of some contingency money, but removed them after the event.

I never understood covering ones car with stickers if there was no chance of any real benefit. Advertising for a local car dealer, parts house, paint shop, tire shop etc I can understand, but coating a car in stickers "just because" .... that I don't get.

Am I missing something?

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 They paid money for Class and Eliminator wins at National Events and Points races.  Not all companies paid for class wins.

Jungle Bobbi

And as posted before 

Some days …………………… You just can't win.

That 30E/D with the sideways motor. There were a couple tries at that.
One was "The Sidewinder"....I think...

jarvis1 wrote:

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That 30E/D with the sideways motor. There were a couple tries at that.
One was "The Sidewinder"....I think...

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 swamp rat 27 - the "sidewinder".

big daddy found it used 21% power as opposed to 7% in a conventional set up and gave up on it. the drive was designed by the cole brothers.

Westberg and Westfall, Good runners.

Full crew on deck there, anyone know what/who broke?

sasquatch wrote:

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Full crew on deck there, anyone know what/who broke?

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  No-one broke.  They used some traction compound that didn't work as it was suppose to.  There was a road grader scraping the track, then a washing / scrubbing with Tide Soap by hand and with a street cleaner.  I think it was about a 5 hour wait, then John Troxell went up and made some test launch's with his SS/O Olds.    1975 WCS Meet.

Dick Moroso at Sanair 1974

Did you ever wonder why they outlawed ball joint spacers ????

 

Canada's fastest "Pro Stock"

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RWW Petrie and Hill were both competitive but so was Poole and Gauthier[spl?]

Bob T wrote:

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RWW Petrie and Hill were both competitive but so was Poole and Gauthier[spl?]

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 That was a 1970 Race at Cayuga. Poole was still in SS and I don't Gauthier was in Pro Stock at that time.

Claire Sanders

I've got a highly detailed die cast replica of this fine Mo- sheen!

Barely visible on the right side of this pic: