Couple pics for "Gasser Jim" aka @Sawdust

Nice pictures Eric!

I should have explained in the women drag racing pictures the reason I took those pictures at motels! I was 16 and was going to these events alone. I couldn't go into the pits without an adult at that age. The pics I took from the stands at the event with an old Polaroid were so bad that they weren't even worth scanning.

DAC
 
And this article I saved from Hot Rod Magazine in 1990….
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Mopar really had it going on back in the 60's Eric! And of course the engine design today for the nitro classes are based off the 426 hemi. Don't matter what make they call the car. Definitely 1990! 275 MPH and 5 second Funny cars! They are running near 340 now with ET's under 4 seconds too, in 1000 feet rather than a quarter mile! Very cool articles, Eric!

Two years ago I threw away five boxes of Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines starting in the early 70’s. I tired to sell them and couldn’t even give them away. I drooled over them back in the day.
I have several boxes of old magazines still, Jim. The ones you mentioned and ones like "Super Chevy" and "Chevy Power". Of course old stock car racing magazines too. Even have a pile of old "National Dragster" newspapers from back then. Some date back into the 60's. Someone gave me a bunch after the flood and I kept them. Will be a shame when I finally have to throw them away.

Have a few books like this too. This one is from '67. Crammed full of construction info, drawings and pictures.
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Some humorous hot rod mags.1970 Cartoons.jpg

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I subscribed to Hot Rod Cartoons back in the '70's.

Found this under a building in Crawfordville, GA that I crawled into as a kid sometime in the 1960's. I took it with me the night of the flood.
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And even some of these.
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Someday they will be in the landfill, but I hope I don't have to do it.

DAC
 
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