Old Drag Car Pictures.........

[68l30]

A little bit of Hut's "Trick Stuff Engineering" at work!


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[Geoff Smith]

Anyone know this car or where this was located?

[HawkX66]

I love these old drag racing threads. Here's my Pops at New England Dragway. Mid-late 60s. 62 Nova w/ a big Pontiac at the time. Ended up running a Hilborn injected 426 Hemi.

[EZ Nova]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Geoff</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Anyone know this car or where this was located? </div></div>

Ya, that's &quot;The Bandito&quot;. Races at Toronto Motorsports Park (Formally Dragway Park Cayuga ONTARIO). It's still around and running in create motor class.
The father passed away a while ago I believe, but the son still runs the car.

[Thomas]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: EZ Nova</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Geoff</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Anyone know this car or where this was located? </div></div>

Ya, that's &quot;The Bandito&quot;. Races at Toronto Motorsports Park (Formally Dragway Park Cayuga ONTARIO). It's still around and running in create motor class.
The father passed away a while ago I believe, but the son still runs the car. </div></div>

The original Bandito has been restored to its' as delivered configuration.
The &quot;new&quot; Bandito is a clone of that car.
It was built by Tony Valerio Junior, who races it very chance he gets in the CanAm Stock Superstock, IHRA and our local bracket racing series.

[DW31S]

A little FYI.... My Camaro is currently in the November Muscle Car Review with a little background and a few more pics. Also, I stumbled onto a fellow with several thousand vintage drag racing pictures. I offered to help him sort through the stuff, but j think he is overwhelmed. I'm afraid he is going to let others take advantage of his kindness and leave him &quot;out in the cold&quot; when it comes to money.

[DW31S]

I just looked at the photos of &quot;The Farmer&quot; and a few things come to mind.
1st- I'm gonna dig around with some of my nostalgia buddies and see if they remember that name; I do not. &quot;Jim's Automatic&quot; kind of rings a bell.
2nd- the sponsor on the front fender &quot;Racing Parts &amp;Machine Co.&quot; was THE place to buy race stuff and have engines built in and around north Baltimore. They were located on Joppa Rd. in a rural area. A little outside of Balto. to the south was Coleman Brothers.
3rd- in the B/W pic in post #608867 at Aquasco, the opponent is Carl Hobbs a.k.a. &quot;Super Fats&quot;. Hobbs had a few fast Camaros and did a whole lot of local stuff. He still has a gas station in Edgemere, MD, although I think his son my be running it. Not sure if any of his old cars survived.

[markinnaples]

Cool info, thanks for posting that up.

[jl8z28]

Coleman brothers is where they found heartbeat city s Zl1 motor ' Hobbs raced a 70 Camaro in the prostock class

[BanditoJr]

Thats my aunt and my mother leaning on the car 1974. Car ran modified production with a 331,tunnel ram,M22 and a Olds rear with 6.14 gears. Car is restored back to original like Tom mentioned and i race the replica i built for him before he passed away. The car was a super highly optioned Y2 Camaro (Y2 meaning butternut yellow/black roof) with tilt wheel, power windows, fold down rear, 295hp 350, Muncie, 12 bolt, delux interior. Probably not a car that should have been turned into a racecar but he bought it in 72 and who knew they would be worth today. I have the original shifter and handle from the car and its now in my 69 Chevelle. Once i can convince my wife that i need another car and the money is available id love to buy it back but for now ill have to wait. Ive attached a pic of the replica.