I'm impressed and amazed by the obscurity of 1967 fashion photoshoot at the Irwindale Raceway, with drag racer Danny Ongais, driver for MT & Leong

So you too must be wondering, who in the hell thought dragsters and womens fashion couture had anything in common? It was Vogue magazine, April 1967 issue

From http://community.livejournal.com/ru_glamour/2737588.html who did a poor repost of the originals at http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f109/us-vogue-april-15-1967-twiggy-bert-stern-69487.html and I was immediately reminded of the 1968 fashion magazine photo shoot with the Dodge line up for 1969: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_24.html and a one page Dodge Dart ad http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/picture-is-worth-thousand-words-except.html

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Tomorrow at the Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse in Santee, Don Prudhomme and dragsters

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More 1970's race cars and the race car haulers/transporters

From http://pour15minutesdamour.blogspot.com/2010/05/on-any-sunday_30.html these are similar to : http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/nikollas-digs-up-coolest-photos-of-drag.html

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A varierty of cool photos from Endlessme.tumbler

via: http://endlessme.tumblr.com/

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Bizarre variety of photos from 5window tumbler, a lot of cool stuff though

For another shot of this Cobra, and a write up, see http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/bit-player.html

more at http://5window.tumblr.com/

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Cool photos from fighterplanesandpinups tumbler

from http://fighterplanesandpinups.tumblr.com/

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De-Win Chevrolet straight six dragster, way cool and different

Home made induction? Cool!

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Gasser Madness

Via: http://www.czombieblog.com/2010/03/g-s-s-e-r-m-d-n-e-s-s.html

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This would be a fun ride down the 1/4 mile

via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430752&page=2

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Did the art director nail the composition, or what? Outta' the park!

I ordered mine, hell yes! Gotta own this and display it, if it were poster size (the top photo) I'd effing frame it. Wait, that is brilliant! Everybody like me who has to have a poster size copy, hang on, I'm gonna see if I can talk them into it!

To order your copy of the magazine: www.fuelzine.com

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East Side Richard went to Detroit (yuck) for the Autorama (HOORAY!) and here are a couple to tease you to look at his gallery

http://backstreetwheels.blogspot.com/ for the gallery,

I convinced him to post more!

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an addition to the 3 wheel dragster photos found on the HAMB

from http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/chat/post-random-pic-thread-7157/page175

Above just found on the HAMB thread "History of LA" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4927350

Above found on http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

This last photo also found on http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/ but is clearly a different dragster, it's rear engine is a quick clue that other people were trying the 3 wheel design, but in a safer way

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