Connie Kalitta driving the Bounty Hunter, the only drag racing triple crown winner in history

He won the 1967 top fuel trophy in all 3 winter meets, the NHRA, the AHRA and NASCAR
photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/48455444@N08/4432541344/sizes/z/in/photostream/

The Long Beach Motorama had a great mock up of the Lions Dragstrip, and had 6 dragsters lined up, including the Stones Wood Cook Willys, Wild Willie Borch's Winged Express, and Jim Miles' Magic

 Ever see a Don Garlits seal of approval? I've never heard of it before. This is from the tunk of the Borsch dragster

Escondido Nitro Night was a blast

Just a couple photos to show you how big the crowd was. This side street is a full block, and between the buildings in the below photos is an alleyway, that is to tell you how large the area is

These are just a a couple of the photos, and none of the videos... they take to long to load, and it's late already.

A new photo of the Austin Grassi Fuel Cuda popped up

top one is from http://prova275.tumblr.com/page/57  bottom 2 were found on Magnetic Brain in early 2010 http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/

Carl Grimes' fantastic bus transporter... moves the team and the racecar, even sleeps them when on the road

found on a page about Carl's dragster and shop http://deansgarage.com/2011/1932-kranzler-sturm-roadster/

The team of Steinegger and Eshenbaugh are looked at on Dean's Garage

Two things about this image grabbed by attention... having the car number on the tire is cool. Easy to see, easy to change if you switch classes, and spares up space on the body for sponsors stickers or lettering. The other thing is the wind up key pushbar, I found one dragster in a video http://streetmachinemag.typepad.com/street_machine/ a couple months ago that had a wind up key, and no identification... maybe this was it

 http://deansgarage.com/2011/steinegger-eshenbaugh/

great photos from 5 Window

see more cool photos at http://5window.tumblr.com/

Some of the coolest dragsters, diggers, slingshots, and launches are found on ClassicDragsters.com.... what took me so long to look through it?

See more good photos and a video of the above Jade Warrior, a 1985 motorcycle... 2 wheels qualifies as a motorcycle; http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/zaniest-hting-ive-seen-in-whiel-jade.html

  

 Looks like a real TV Batmobile at the dragstrip... I wonder if the smoke out the back was hot or cold?

Thses are all from 88 pages of just one album http://www.classicdragsters.com/v/Others/ among about 4 dozen... so if I got you worked up to sit back and enjoy dragsters, get through the link, soak it up, and look into the dozens of other albums!