Canadian Drag Racing History.

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

Canadian Drag Racing History.

Ninop69 · THORNHILL, ONT

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

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Bob T · BRANTFORD, ONT

Love your pictures especially the 'vintage' ones. Please keep them coming.

Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

Bob T wrote:
Love your pictures especially the 'vintage' ones. Please keep them coming.

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GhostPost · ONTARIO

Wow, thanks for sharing Rob. Excellent photos.

teejay99 · BELLE RIVER, ONT

Beautiful pic of Chilly Willy .

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Offset · HALIBURTON, ONT

ssphoto1 wrote:
I've been the photographer/announcer/historian at Cayuga for many years and have acquired an extensive collection of images from the early years of drag racing in Southern Ontario.
I've already posted most of these on other sites so some of you may have already seen them but I thought enough hadn't to make it worthwhile.
Rob Potter

Bill Denny has followed the lead of Scott Wilson and taken his racing to the Supermodified world. Was racing a Joe Grunda built Super but I think he was looking for a new chassis. He is racing the car with a wing with the traveling ISMA and MSA shows. Great guy.

Some great photos here, thanks so much for sharing.

studeshaker · BUCKHORN, ONT

great photos rob. i like your rambler, did you know that roy hopkins is in the process of restoring a SCrambler ?

doug.

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

I don't know the gentleman but I do know of one other SCrambler being restored in the Welland area.

If anyone knows of a 66-69 Rambler American parts car I would be most interested.....no aftermarket for the orphans.

Rob Potter

studeshaker · BUCKHORN, ONT

ssphoto1 wrote:
I don't know the gentleman but I do know of one other SCrambler being restored in the Welland area.

If anyone knows of a 66-69 Rambler American parts car I would be most interested.....no aftermarket for the orphans.

Rob Potter

roy races with O.N.D.R. - a yellow 65 chevelle and formerly the stude that i have. he has a very decent 69 rambler parts car and other odds and ends, i'll ask him if he has anything he wants to sell if you like rob.

427CARL · CLINTON, ONT

awesome photos I have never been to Cayuga... but love the setting.....

notice the 2 door post sedan push car interesting

parklane · St THOMAS, ONT

'62 Ford

jim_ss409 · BARRIE, ONTARIO

Great pictures! Thanks for posting them.

Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

Good morning Rob. I figured if anyone would know it likely would be you. We were at my sister and brother-in-law's last night, as it usually does, the conversation turned to racing. They had been to a Mopar show this past summer and snapped these pics. My brother-in-law said the fella with the B altered was a really congenial guy but they forgot his name. Anyone know the lad?

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

I know his first name is Dennis and he LOVES to show the car. He gets some cool flames out of the headers and there's an iconic shot from the E.L.T.A. bash showing a young lad roasting a marshmellow on a stick.....too cool.

Rob

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

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Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

ssphoto1 wrote:
I know his first name is Dennis and he LOVES to show the car. He gets some cool flames out of the headers and there's an iconic shot from the E.L.T.A. bash showing a young lad roasting a marshmellow on a stick.....too cool.

Rob

Thanks Rob. I'm glad to see Jim Lindsay made it into the pics. The Pepper Mill is the reason I own a Falcon today. Very nice guy.

Fast Elvis · LONDON, ONTARIO

Iwannagofast wrote:
Good morning Rob. I figured if anyone would know it likely would be you. We were at my sister and brother-in-law's last night, as it usually does, the conversation turned to racing. They had been to a Mopar show this past summer and snapped these pics. My brother-in-law said the fella with the B altered was a really congenial guy but they forgot his name. Anyone know the lad?

This is Dennis Wilson with Jack Waters drag car. Dennis is a ELTA member and will have the car in Detroit this March for Autorama in the ELTA Display. Dennis a great ambassador of drag racing. The picture we staged at the ELTA Party with Jim Hartman's grandson roasting marshmellows is a keeper for sure. In the first picture is our own ssphoto1...Rob Potter holding the camera as usual. The second picture was taken by Kenny Krocker of Lug Nuts Magazine outside the ELTA Club Shop.

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Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

Thanks Elvis, I appreciate your help. Wilson.........wasn't there a Scott Wilson that ran a Fueler powered by a Ford Cammer from London area, seems to me they had a Dairy?.......actually, I think I saw a pic in the first batch. Is that it?

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sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Great bunch of Photos!! Much appreciated!! Lot of memories !!

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

Rob

That picture of the Karbelt Fiat 'Percy Also' has me wanting to ask a question. That looks like around 64-66 and that is when I raced against them in 'The Village Idiot'. I was wondering if anywhere in your archives, you have a picture of my car, an orange 28 Tudor, sbc, 2x4s, kinda low buck?

Thanks

Warren

parklane · St THOMAS, ONT

Iwannagofast wrote:
Thanks Elvis, I appreciate your help. Wilson.........wasn't there a Scott Wilson that ran a Fueler powered by a Ford Cammer from London area, seems to me they had a Dairy?.......actually, I think I saw a pic in the first batch. Is that it?

-- Edited by Iwannagofast on Sunday 15th of February 2015 01:37:21 PM

Dennis Wilson lives south of St.Thomas, on Fairview Rd., just south of Sparta Line , and no relation to Scott, as far as I know.

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427CARL · CLINTON, ONT

parklane wrote:
Iwannagofast wrote:
Thanks Elvis, I appreciate your help. Wilson.........
wasn't there a Scott Wilson that ran a Fueler powered by a Ford Cammer from London area, seems to me they had a Dairy?......
.actually, I think I saw a pic in the first batch. Is that it?

427CARL · CLINTON, ONT

Iwannagofast wrote:
Good morning Rob. I figured if anyone would know it likely would be you. We were at my sister and brother-in-law's last night, as it usually does, the conversation turned to racing. They had been to a Mopar show this past summer and snapped these pics. My brother-in-law said the fella with the B altered was a really congenial guy but they forgot his name. Anyone know the lad?

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

Fordy Acres Car Farm · DORCHESTER, ONT

Iwannagofast wrote:
.........wasn't there a Scott Wilson that ran a Fueler powered by a Ford Cammer from London area, seems to me they had a Dairy?.......actually, I think I saw a pic in the first batch. Is that it?

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That's it!!! The time machine!

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Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

Thanks guys, it's coming back to me now.

Fordy Acres Car Farm · DORCHESTER, ONT

Here's another.

studeshaker · BUCKHORN, ONT

remember bill innes ? he had a speed shop in markham too in the early/mid seventies.

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

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teejay99 · BELLE RIVER, ONT

Seems like everybody ran Cragars back in the good old days ...even the push cars .

Riddler · WATERDOWN, ONT

Great pictures of Dragway Park ,Rob .

Your Rambler scrambler is still running the AMC 390 with 4 gear .
What would be the chance you have pictures of the York Auto sales Rambler Scrambler running in the summer of 1969 when Lanny Cooper and Don Sneed ran it from the dealership in Burlington ?
John.

Ragtop · BELLE RIVER, ONT

Here's an old picture that I just found. It's "Zorro11" owned by the Tecumseh Pushrods and normally Olds powered but on occasion they7 would pull the Olds and drop in a big Packard Patrician dual quad motor. Pretty quick for the day and a big improvement over Zorro 1.
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Ragtop · BELLE RIVER, ONT

OOPS! maybe this'll work

teejay99 · BELLE RIVER, ONT

About what year Ragtop ? Looks 50's .

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

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sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Offset · HALIBURTON, ONT

ssphoto1 wrote:

Now there is a car I have not seen in a long long time. I believe Bruce Gowland passed away last year (sorry Bruce if I got that wrong). I believe at the time that he promoted this car as Canada'a First Funny Car.

Thanks for sharing your photographs. Truly appreciated.

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sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

First time i had seen a pic of this in some time also.

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Anyone remember a piece of clutch disk hitting the tower way back ,maybe between 69-72? (@Dragway Park).

Dick Kirkpatrick · MILTON, ONTARIO

Yes Ray, Bruce did pass at least a year ago from bone cancer. He was a good friend of mine.

ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

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ssphoto1 · ONTARIO

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

"Overland Express" was owned by John MacDougall that now has the "Little Blue Wagon".

Ragtop · BELLE RIVER, ONT

Yep - mid to late 50's. They ran at Cayuga and New Baltimore Michigan mostly. Neat stories when you can get these guys talking. They raced Connie Kiletta, Bob Hayward

Ragtop · BELLE RIVER, ONT

Neat pic of the Pirate. Anyone know how Stu's doing?

Fast Elvis · LONDON, ONTARIO

Ragtop wrote:
Neat pic of the Pirate. Anyone know how Stu's doing?

I gave Stu a call around Christmas Mike....he seemed well on the phone......told him he was missed.... he just chuckled. I'll have to get up his way once the snow leaves....always has some great stories.