Posted by Les on March 10, 2005, 8:45 pm
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:13:10 -0600, "Les" <oh kay tee ar six
> ar@cox.net> wrote:
>>I had an interesting conversation with an electrical engineer at work
>>today.
>>Jim was telling me about how he spent his weekends in the late 60's &
>>early
>>'70's. He was into drag racing, both cars and bikes. He's telling me he
>>was
>>running high 9's on the HD. He's gonna see if he can locate his old photo
>>album, I'm hoping to borrow it & scan a bunch of pics. It got me to
>>looking
>>for old drag racing pictures & I wondered if someone knew of a good web
>>site
>>where I could find some from that time frame.
> No website, but do some checkin' into Chet Herbert. He was a cam
> guru, automotive and H-D, among other thangs, and you might find some
> interesting stuff.
> Snarl... the "had a cam of his in m' Knuck" Asshole(tm)
I'll check it out. Hope he follows thru & locates the photo album, should be
some interesting pics.
Les
Posted by Les on March 10, 2005, 8:46 pm
>> album, I'm hoping to borrow it & scan a bunch of pics. It got me to
>> looking for old drag racing pictures & I wondered if someone knew of a
>> good web site where I could find some from that time frame.
> Not any "action" shots butt a few old pics and history. Says Joe Smith
> broke the 9sec record in `71 on a single engine HD. It must be true, it's
> on the net 8°).
> http://www.harleyhelp.com/hist.html
Thanks MaGGie. I wonder how quick a purpose built drag bike would have been
around '70?
Les
Posted by Dennis Peterson on March 10, 2005, 11:42 pm
Les wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:13:10 -0600, "Les" <oh kay tee ar six
>>ar@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I had an interesting conversation with an electrical engineer at work
>>>today.
>>>Jim was telling me about how he spent his weekends in the late 60's &
>>>early
>>>'70's. He was into drag racing, both cars and bikes. He's telling me he
>>>was
>>>running high 9's on the HD. He's gonna see if he can locate his old photo
>>>album, I'm hoping to borrow it & scan a bunch of pics. It got me to
>>>looking
>>>for old drag racing pictures & I wondered if someone knew of a good web
>>>site
>>>where I could find some from that time frame.
>>
>>No website, but do some checkin' into Chet Herbert. He was a cam
>>guru, automotive and H-D, among other thangs, and you might find some
>>interesting stuff.
>>
>>Snarl... the "had a cam of his in m' Knuck" Asshole(tm)
>
>
> I'll check it out. Hope he follows thru & locates the photo album, should be
> some interesting pics.
>
> Les
>
>
PiPPi and Toni (Court Jester) are pretty dialed into HD drags - ping'm
as they may have some useful trailheads to follow up on.
dp
Posted by Par Willen on March 11, 2005, 2:15 am
Dennis Peterson wrote:
>>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:13:10 -0600, "Les" <oh kay tee ar six
>>> ar@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> It got me to looking for old drag racing pictures & I wondered if someone
knew of a good
>>>> web site where I could find some from that time frame.
>
> PiPPi and Toni (Court Jester) are pretty dialed into HD drags - ping'm
> as they may have some useful trailheads to follow up on.
I certainly have been looking but, no, AFAIK there are no dedicated
websites for old Harley drag racing pics and info.
What is cool though is that a few old amateur and pro race photographers
have started gathering up paper pictures and negatives from their own
shelves, scans them and puts them up on the web and then it rolls on
from there with others adding on.
One of the best sites for vintage dragbike pics, IMO, actually comes out
of the UK and can be found at http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk
Enter the site at http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk/site_map.html
, choose "Motorcycles" and enjoy (bet you can't stay away from the car
pictures). Yes, it's all Europe-based but no matter, there are some
pretty cool shots of what it was like back then. It wasn't uncommon for
US racers to do the trip across the ocean so you'll se a few US race
bikes including an old V-twin or two.
Not on bikes but for vintage drag racing the site at
http://www.wediditforlove.com is probably the number one for old
DR-pics. Takes a while just to plow through the free stuff.
Regards
PiPPi
http://HarleyDrags.com
Posted by Old Crow on March 11, 2005, 5:17 am
wrote:
>One of the best sites for vintage dragbike pics, IMO, actually comes out
>of the UK and can be found at http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk
>Enter the site at http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk/site_map.html
>, choose "Motorcycles" and enjoy (bet you can't stay away from the car
>pictures). Yes, it's all Europe-based but no matter, there are some
>pretty cool shots of what it was like back then. It wasn't uncommon for
>US racers to do the trip across the ocean so you'll se a few US race
>bikes including an old V-twin or two.
>Not on bikes but for vintage drag racing the site at
>http://www.wediditforlove.com is probably the number one for old
>DR-pics. Takes a while just to plow through the free stuff.
Hep Pippi, and Les, this ain't bikes, but it's really cool. Not too
far from my house, and one of the guys I work with races his car there
from time to time. Should be both old pics and some new ones too, as
he's still operating.
http://www.georgerays.com/
--
Old Crow
'82 Shovelhead FLTC 92" 'Pearl'
'95 Jeep Wrangler YJ
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> ar@cox.net> wrote:
>>I had an interesting conversation with an electrical engineer at work
>>today.
>>Jim was telling me about how he spent his weekends in the late 60's &
>>early
>>'70's. He was into drag racing, both cars and bikes. He's telling me he
>>was
>>running high 9's on the HD. He's gonna see if he can locate his old photo
>>album, I'm hoping to borrow it & scan a bunch of pics. It got me to
>>looking
>>for old drag racing pictures & I wondered if someone knew of a good web
>>site
>>where I could find some from that time frame.
> No website, but do some checkin' into Chet Herbert. He was a cam
> guru, automotive and H-D, among other thangs, and you might find some
> interesting stuff.
> Snarl... the "had a cam of his in m' Knuck" Asshole(tm)