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How many remember this one. Larry on the twin fueler nothing like the smell of nitro in the evening..
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Originally posted by Assassin

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here is one for you, who and what and any idea when?




It is a VW, originally built I belive in 1973, & yes thats a Ford trnsit van, red being a popular colour with racers. I think the photo dates from August 1976, an NDRC event at Blachbushe Airport, UK. Notice the colouration on front disc, it has already been raining!

 
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so so close Ian,   Freight Train I think was the triple engined bike (not triple VW)
Never quite sure which brother was which.



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hey tom ,i havn't seen you for weeks --    lol    -- or since the week end gary tonglet and i raced don plesser in baton rouge,la. my how time flies! thanks for the welcome!
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Tom,

Way back in '72 or '73 you did a pictorial kind-of-thing in Dragbike Magazine on my Turbocharged A-Gas Sporty. If I recall correctly, I think you took the pictures at Bowling Green. Some of the pictures may've shown Doug Gall riding my bike. Boy I'd sure like to get some of those old black and whites if they're still around. It's hard to re-live the glory when people think I'm just making up stories! Any chance they're around somewhere?
 
I was racing out of Drag Specialties in Minneapolis at the time. Jim Preisler was there on his single engine fueler (I don't think he had his double Sporty until '74).
 
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DRAT! But I will say that it is one tidily set up car powered scoot. Usually one sees some really floppy frames with poorly incorporated engine pods..this is just plain sleek.
A tip of the hat to  the builder!
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Yo! Me do. Remember when it was hydrogen peroxide from two Arvil Porter lunar lander rockets?
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ps...I do also remember something about a wild party at Larry's house and winding up spending the night (or was it a week) underneath the pool table. I do not , however , remember any other details.
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This wonderful site and we are putting That Old Gang of Ours together one guy and gal at a time....regardless of sanction preferences.Now all we have to do is slow down the shrinkage from the passage of time...and get everybody in here we can find for a great big group hug... before it's too late for them and us both.
         If you look at the massed efforts, work, thinking,
cash outlay and  striving, even more, the continual
good behavior and sportsmanship exhibited by the racers under some really awful circumstances, you all and we have really done something to put this sport on  the map. The new guys are doing well , too.
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Originally posted by Scooter

Tom,

Way back in '72 or '73 you did a pictorial kind-of-thing in Dragbike Magazine on my Turbocharged A-Gas Sporty. If I recall correctly, I think you took the pictures at Bowling Green. Some of the pictures may've shown Doug Gall riding my bike. Boy I'd sure like to get some of those old black and whites if they're still around. It's hard to re-live the glory when people think I'm just making up stories! Any chance they're around somewhere?
 
I was racing out of Drag Specialties in Minneapolis at the time. Jim Preisler was there on his single engine fueler (I don't think he had his double Sporty until '74).
 
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Might have been for motorcycle sport quarterly, but I will encourage  you by saying that I deep six nothing intentionally and there is about a 75% chance they do. I think I remember the headlines for the story being done with hand lettering and with at least one shot from dead above you.
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Another oldie from me, a blown Kawasaki 1980 ish!
Photographed at Long Marston Raceway
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Might have been for motorcycle sport quarterly, but I will encourage  you by saying that I deep six nothing intentionally and there is about a 75% chance they do. I think I remember the headlines for the story being done with hand lettering and with at least one shot from dead above you.
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Thanks for the hopeful word! I'm completely certain it was Dragebike Magazine. I recall the hand lettering for the banner. I also recall the front page: it was a dual reverse image of TC or some top fueler of the day. It was made to look like he was racing off the page and right into your lap! Pretty cool for the day!
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Yeah I do remember the hydrogen peroxide bike.. Their was a hydrogen peroxide Go-Cart as well. I last saw that about 78-79 in Bowie Md at a guys shop leaning against the wall.
 
Im like you about the parties at Larry's place but can almost recall the Maxwell House "coffee" cans over the workbench...
The last I knew of the single fuel ride a guy in Ocala Fl had it and was trying to exhibit it at some local events around that area. I last saw it run about 1998 at a 100 yard run in the parking lot at Hard Rock motorsports in Fl.. The old gal sounded strong but the rider had little experience at keeping it straight on the dirt... Oops...
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Thanks ! Back before I took on the responsibility for the racing series, I could really let it fly in experimenting with the Mag. We had some superior artwok by nationally known commercial artists like Hank Godlewski, art instruction director here at Mohawk Valley Community College, who was the roommate of  Vaughn Bode  the artist who did the Cheech Wizard cartoons in the 60's and 70's...I believe for Mad Magazine.
        That machine was a BMod Kawasaki at Cincinnati
It sure did ramp up the classification on that thing...don't worry about the misclassification...the art was designed to max the impact of the launch...
machines coming at you have urgency and drama...that's why I almost never used going away shots of races...in the  vulgar language of phortography (between one  another) we call those "ass shots"  and  subtract from the drama.
 If I could have done it and not died in the first event of doing it...and if I could have gotten a shot of the number plate I would have stood in the middle of the track to get the oncoming  drama .
 I really  want to  find a photo  of myself standing on the second concrete "christmas tree" stand  at BG  where I made a lot of photos before being shooed off it for ....well, being , too prominent.
These photos are most likely in there.
What do you have now...the magazine itself?
Are you working from memory or looking at it.?
 
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Might have been for motorcycle sport quarterly, but I will encourage  you by saying that I deep six nothing intentionally and there is about a 75% chance they do. I think I remember the headlines for the story being done with hand lettering and with at least one shot from dead above you.
TLoughlin Jr.

Thanks for the hopeful word! I'm completely certain it was Dragebike Magazine. I recall the hand lettering for the banner. I also recall the front page: it was a dual reverse image of TC or some top fueler of the day. It was made to look like he was racing off the page and right into your lap! Pretty cool for the day!
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Another oldie from me, a blown Kawasaki 1980 ish!
Photographed at Long Marston Raceway



  Sure and begorrah, it's Long Marston but.. The background, except that it is level, is  reminiscent of  Union Grove on the right hand side in  the staging lanes before the ramp up to the line.
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STYLE !!!
This fella took some time putting together his visuals.
Every now and then, one scooter or scooter/rider combo grabs your attention, the more accustomed to excellence you become, the harder it is to rivet your attention..I guess that's called being jaded. Well...this act is a grabber.  I am probably the most jaded motorcycle observer of them all.. The only one I can come up with right now...to occupy my noggin is Kevin Cleary's Hell's Angels of Cleveland shovelhead pro dragster (i pushrod engine carb nitro )
I was so clean, I think I could find more dirt on a scalpel in the autoclave cooling bins at Cleveland Clinic. Those guys were     dirt's Public Enemy #1.
     Some of these machines are just rolling prayers of thanks to God for His gift to us  of  engineering/construction ability and thumbs.
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What do you have now...the magazine itself?
Are you working from memory or looking at it.?
 
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I'm working from memory. I was pretty young then and to get ANY exposure at all was a real ego booster; so I DEVOURED that old rag! Almost literally! It's permanently forged in my memory chip! Getting that issue  was almost as thrilling as cutting my first 9!

 
I probably still have it in the bowels of buried memoralbilia around here somewhere. You even sent me a couple of black and whites from BG along with the complimentary issue. I know I never threw it away. I'll rummage around for it one of these days and see what I come up with. I found some old time-cards recently from when I cut my first 12 on my street Sporty back in 1970. Ah.., those were the days!!
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Originally posted by 60ft

The T/F results for the UEM Championship opening round  (on DB.com's Home page) at Santa Pod, UK, note that the runner-up (to Ian King) entry of Rene van den Berg is an old-school bike with some history.  Anyone with an background on this beauty? (photo courtesy kingracing.uk; thanks and congrats on your victory, Ian!):

its the ex-Orange Crush that Brian Johnson imported into the UK in the early 80s... and the photo isn't courtesy of His Royal Highness Wink
STYLE !!!
This fella took some time putting together his visuals.
Every now and then, one scooter or scooter/rider combo grabs your attention, the more accustomed to excellence you become, the harder it is to rivet your attention..I guess that's called being jaded. Well...this act is a grabber.  I am probably the most jaded motorcycle observer of them all.. The only one I can come up with right now...to occupy my noggin is Kevin Cleary's Hell's Angels of Cleveland shovelhead pro dragster (i pushrod engine carb nitro )
I was so clean, I think I could find more dirt on a scalpel in the autoclave cooling bins at Cleveland Clinic. Those guys were     dirt's Public Enemy #1.
     Some of these machines are just rolling prayers of thanks to God for His gift to us  of  engineering/construction ability and thumbs.
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WOW!  I love this stuff!  Well, it's not a fueler or all that fast, but it's still running.  Check out my homepage at www.KellerRacing.net.  It's a '71 engine in a '63 frame, Morgo 750 kit.  Got a bunch of ole vintage bits and pieces I'm dying to try out.  Haven't been out yet this year but I should be ready in about a month.  Had get rid of my pick-up and now have a Pontiac Sunfire, looking for lite, single rail trailer to do the towing.  Anyone else out there still running old bikes????

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Say, if you want to get to the track REALLY fast, here's what you could do to that Sunfire: 
 
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