Random Family Cars

[Drache]

Digging through old family photos and figured I'd post any that had old vehicles:

These all feature my Uncle Ab (Grandpa's Brother)






Uncle Gordon (Grandpa's Brother):



My Grandfather's car after he rolled it. There were 6 people inside and my grandfather had the only injury, a broken elbow. The place the car crashed to this day is STILL called Jake's Elbow.


Unknown or Various Family:

[68X426]

Fantastic doesn't begin to describe how cool those pics are! Good old days indeed. Thank you for sharing.

[Drache]

Regarding Uncle Abb and the one picture of him and his Nascar (1977):



In the same newspaper as the above article, there is an article about how Vandals destroyed the Quesnel Drag strip and they never recovered from the loss and closed down forever that year.

1978:



Back in 1974, before the Nascar:

[RallyeMike]

I love looking at old track photos. Thanks.

[twodko]

Fantastic doesn't begin to describe how cool those pics are! Good old days indeed. Thank you for sharing.

X2, thanks for the look back to yesteryear!

[Brock Samson]

  wonderful thread!  i hope others add to it... 

[SFRT]

my old man was real proud of his 75 pinto. cheap on gas. what a loser. your grand-uncles fucking rule.

[John_Kunkel]

Not exactly a "family" vehicle since I was the only one who could fit in it.

[twodko]

John, that's a great picture! SFRT is spot on too!

[Drache]

Maybe someone with better eyes can tell me. On the one picture with the two cars on the track side by side, is that a 3rd Gen Charger in the top right? 

Also in the one news article (NASCAR Coming to Quesnel) if no one seen it, it mentions Dodge Chargers by name. 

[charge69]

Those are some really nice pictures and articles from a time gone bye..... Drache, I am not sure but I do not think it is a pic of a 3rd gen with the two side-by-side cars on the racetrack. I really love looking at old race picture and certainly wish I had taken more of them.

My first recollections of racing were at an old WWII practice landing strip that was turned into a Saturday night drag strip. You just pulled up on the edge of the strip to watch and the racers were actually flagged off the start with a timing system to determine the winner installed. This was only a couple of miles from one of my uncle's farms just off hwy84 about 25 miles east of Waco, Tx. and near the town of Prairie Hill, Tx. It was there I got my first real taste of racing as the two fastest "street cars" were a 413 Plymouth Savoy and a 409 Chevy Biscayne. This was about 1962 and these were bought by their owners right off the showroom floor and brought to the dragstrip to race.

From what I saw, the Chevy won about as much as the Plymouth. The Chevy had a 4-speed tranny in it and the Plymouth had the venerable 727 auto. That Chevy driver really knew how to shift the 409 though as I don't remember him ever missing a shift and was very quick with them.That Plymouth was definitely ugly but it "sealed the deal" as far as me wanting a MOPAR for racing as I got older.


The strip is back now as an airport now and no sign of the use as a dragstrip remains!

[69bronzeT5]

Maybe someone with better eyes can tell me. On the one picture with the two cars on the track side by side, is that a 3rd Gen Charger in the top right? 

Yup, it's a '73-'74

[charge69]

Ha !!!  I AM getting old !! I thought you meant one of the racers but, it is a 3rd gen parked in the upper right of the picture. I will take 69bronzeT5's word for it that it is a '73/'74 but it is a 3rd gen there.