Old School Dragbikes and Riders

Originally posted by fastlane Originally posted by DRAGBIKE! Now..who dis man at the  burning block? Hint..Northeast. HD single. Nitro. MIGHT BE FROM LOOKING AT THE THE HELMET DICK PRIME AT THE BURNOUT BOARD ? FASTLANE.

Si! It  is Mr. Prime in his prime.
Tom

Originally posted by fastlane Originally posted by DRAGBIKE! Time for show and tell. Where is this tech /registration area...??? ATCO N.J. OR MAYBE GAINESVILLE FLA.  MY ONLY GUESS . FASTLANE.

I am searching for the answer too  I am tending toward Atco. I wish I could create a bigger , sharper photo so we could get some facial detail.I will attempt again later.
Tom

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Originally posted by AMP I remember Bowling Green having a nice trailer where we handled registration.  One year a car hit a power pole near the park and the entire area was without electricity.  Did not slow down the registration crew, they kept going despite the problems.    Never forget the aromas of the burning rubber, fuel and sights and sounds of that place.  Every time I produce a race I am drawn back to that first day at Bowling Green remembering the excitement I felt as a participant.   Keeps me working to instill that focus of fun in all of our volunteers and race officials.

THAT'S THE SPIRIT!
IT LIVES !!
YOU DA MAN,ROBERT!
TE LOUGHLIN,JR

  

Originally posted by TFB 475     Sinners Saint , "Cool Bike" looks a lot like our first bike . (1970's) What are your plans for the bike? Our's was an old Fuel HD D&K frame.

ED PRENTKOWSKI!!!!! I would'nt have guessed that if I lived another lifetime. That's a name LONG forgotten, at least by me. Even now I can't remember what he rode, maybe a modifyed CB550 Honda? I was thinking Jim Dodd from Muskegon area. Little story about him. Jim and I were close in points in about '74, '75. I really did not want to make the trip out to SoCal for a race so I called him to ask if he was going to go. If he would stay home, I would too. He said he was planning to go, so even though I was leading in points at that time I couldn't afford to stay home and let him maybe win the race. Bottom line, I went alllllllll the way to Cal, won the race + set a record and Jim never showed. That pretty much locked up the points for me.

Pic from Dragraceresults.com Anyone know of bike or rider?

Originally posted by Bo Thorselius It must be "The Barn Job" blown Vincent by Clem Johnson. I am senior as well but from Sweden so maybe I can be excused.

YOU NORDIC RAPSCALLION!
YOU GOT IT,
SUPERCHARGED VINCENT BLACK SHADOW.
eND TO END TIRESMOKE (LOOK AT THe TIRE).
nOT JUST THUNDER, BUT CANNON FIRE CYLINDER SOUND...It could make your fillings fall out.
You who have not heard this thing run...especially a full pass...have really not ..savored a mortorsports racket..no , music. BIG BAD music...something akin to Thunderstruck by AC.DC or
Higher and Higher by the Moody Blues (a saturn 5 rocket takeoff is the keynote to that  ditty, or Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull... The entire thing looks as though it were cut out of billet aluminum or poured into a mold. We all do a lot of  hand crafting and fabrication...but this?
 The only drawback about seeing and hearing this ...THING...run...is that you might begin committing blasphemies and sacrileges and begin praying to it like a Golden Calif (or in this case, an Aluminum/Magnesium Nitro Calf ..) In that case, God would turn you into a pillar of salt..so..count your blessings. Lot's wife ignored  her charge not to look back at Sodom and Gomorrah when God freed  them...and zappo. NaCl  statuary where once stood a  chickie.
....I am nuts about this machine. In our entire run, I think we saw it 3 times..Carlsbad, LACR and ..gkw (God knows where.).. ahbe OCIR.
I am the richer for having experienced it.)
Anybody else out there see it go? YOU, ROYRACEMASTER? Bo T, the Smart Swede?.
chime in.
Loughlin

I had the pleasure of seeing the "Barn Job" make a couple of passes at Carlsbad. Why I only stood there in awe and never took pictures is beyond me. If my memory serves me correctly it was in the late 70's,....I know it was back when we used to "heat the tire" up against the guardrail facing the announcers shack on the hill behind the launch pad.