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To: ETL

When I was a kid I hung out with this guy.

https://coloradomotorsportshalloffame.com/alan-bockla/

I rode in the push car behind this dragster. Loved the nitro smell. And those gasser cars were awesome.


4 posted on 02/22/2021 9:39:58 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

When I was a kid I hung out with this guy. I rode in the push car behind this dragster. Loved the nitro smell.

Thanks for sharing.

I loved those front engine "rails", especially the longer ones that followed. This was of course prior to the rear engine ones that came after, following "Big Daddy" Don Garlit's near-fatal accident with a front engine.


an example of the long "rails".






an example of the safer rear-engine rails.

6 posted on 02/22/2021 10:05:25 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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