Man - those last few batches were AWESOME!

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Just want to thank everyone for posting on this thread, THANKS. This is a fantastic thread!

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Sorry for any duplicates also some are a bit fuzzy but just too cool not to share.
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Awesome!

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My nostalgia tow setup. 86 truck 88 Chaparral. Modern pic edited to look period.

Taking it to the NDRL race in Indy May 18.

Great pics Pete!!! You’re on a roll!!

Can anyone imagine if today we were using open trailers and trucks like Professional Racers were using back in the day? Oh my, the cars would be stripped clean or stollen in a heartbeat.

Sad but true.

Damn thieves. Need to go medieval on them and start cutting hands off.

I like the crew cab dodge…

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Note Pink Graeber Dodge CrewCab also in Post 565 B&W pic but likely later w/ Rooftop AC?:hmmm:
Here’s a few more, sorry for any duplicates also some pics are fuzzy but still worth sharing.
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Not quite as vintage as all those but I think still pretty cool. My tow rig back in the day.

Have pictures w that car and its tow rig ( same thing before chop ) back in 1970 also
15 k on the car still . Sold the truck sadly. Miss it dearly. 402 Big block.

Same car and truck 1970 before extensive modification on the truck (side note I didn’t know the same truck had been used to build my tow vehicle til after I’d sold it).
Paint in the car was done by the same person who painted Paul Newman’s race cars BTW

Truck was done by Gary’s of Bristol auto body in the 70s
Paint in the car was done in 69 and 70 by “woody” Wayne wood who panted many famous race cars.

Thought you guys would enjoy the paint part of the story.

From Amarillo Dragway in the early 70s ... Chadwick had gotten to the track late and was pressed for time. We were parked next to his pit and when he started unloading the car, crap it the rotating oscillator. He had taken the chutes to the cleaners and when he started unpacked the chutes were in a balled mess. A friend of mine and I told him we could straighten them out and he said OK.

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Here comes more including a few Fred Gibb pics first, sorry again for the fuzzy ones.
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These pics are soooo cool!! Thanks for posting.

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You are truly amazing, Pete !!

----Check out that can of Coke. Thanks from me as well, Pete!....Bill S

That's cool. I wonder if the door had a pull tab.

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Love this thread.

Great stuff.

The pictures that Pete, and others, manage to pull out of sources on the internet is astounding. I guess we need to thank the people who took those pics, saved them all these years, and posted them on a public forum.

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You’re right Mitch, thanks to those who took and saved such great pics!
Forgot to mention, note the ‘68 ‘Vert w/ Linda as last post is a GT0, not Cutlass.
Here’s a few more, from the good old world most of us here were so lucky to have lived…
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Love the one of the guy towing an early Corvette race car with a 57 Nomad.

----Lynn,,,Did you notice the T-Bird hoodscoop on the Vette too? Got a laugh out of that!....Bill S

Although not a drag hauler, my family was into circle track racing and this is an old family photo.

I did Bill... along with the luggage rack (sacrilege) on the Nomad to carry extra tires. One would think they would fit in the back of that car.

You just have to wonder where some of these rigs ended up.

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Man these pics are great! That white/red ‘62 fuelie looks way cool!!

Local buddy 'bout a dozen years ago was selling an enclosed ramp truck, nice (stained wood?) deck, winch, the deck was angled), GMC front. I had nowhere to keep it. I think was a a early mid 80s cab.

Here is a pic of my buddy hauling my street/strip car for an alingnment check, '96 model, BB and 4L80E.

Awesome!! Combination.