When the engine is cold, they decided to start this Dragster on Gasoline to heat up the engine. Notice the sudden change to the sound? A woman is sitting in the Dragster. These were dragsters of the 1960s up till they put the driver up front of the Engine as they do now. Back then they had clutches blowing up and hurting Drivers.
Notice on Nitro Methane, called fuel, the car sounds a lot more ... well violent.
When the engine is cold, they decided to start this Dragster on Gasoline to heat up the engine. Notice the sudden change to the sound? A woman is sitting in the Dragster. These were dragsters of the 1960s up till they put the driver up front of the Engine as they do now. Back then they had clutches blowing up and hurting Drivers.
Notice on Nitro Methane, called fuel, the car sounds a lot more ... well violent.
That nitro makes a BIG difference! I just love to hear the WHINE from those straight cut teeth on the gears in the supercharger when the air valves are are winged open!!! The most entertaining for me back then was the AA/FA(supercharged AA/Fuel Altered) ESPECIALLY the Marcellus & Borsch "Winged Express"!!!!!
That nitro makes a BIG difference! I just love to hear the WHINE from those straight cut teeth on the gears in the supercharger when the air valves are are winged open!!! The most entertaining for me back then was the AA/FA(supercharged AA/Fuel Altered) ESPECIALLY the Marcellus & Borsch "Winged Express"!!!!!
A famous Fuel altered I watched race with my friend driving it was called Pure Hell and it went up to about 180 and in the 8 second bracket. So Winged Express was special. I don't recall seeing it race. What tracks did it race at? What area of the country?
A famous Fuel altered I watched race with my friend driving it was called Pure Hell and it went up to about 180 and in the 8 second bracket. So Winged Express was special. I don't recall seeing it race. What tracks did it race at? What area of the country?
Just being associated with a driver of a AA/FA gawdamed near makes U a Celebrity!!!!!!
She was a California based rig. Lions dragstrip(LOW altitude, WAS the fastest 1/4 mile track in our USA) was no doubt her 'home/favored' strip. We seen her in person clear up north @ the then podunk/backwoods Woodburn Oregon drag strip. She did NOT look as fancy as in the more modern images of her, like she looked ragged & well used but was performing every bit as as good or BETTER than the local glistening/shiny AA/FD's! In the below vid @ 3:38 into the vid is how I remember seeing her that weekend @ Woodburn.
Alvin was both the brains(mechanical engineer) & PR man of the duo. Willie was the "O-N-E HANDED" SHOWBOAT DRIVER that simply overawed everyone including Don Garlits himself!
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Both Nanook & Pure Hell have got to be the most successful of all the EARLY(short wheel base) AA/FA's regarding both longevity & lowest ET's. Below; Nanook entering the traps @ a whopping 6.41!
Blistering 6.30 ET for Nanook in the below run, like closing in on the 5 second bracket!!!!!!!!!!
Pure Hell was in the TOP THREE AA/FA back in the day like she's capable of MID/LOW 6 SECOND ET'S as seen in the below vid;
I read a link that stated the little Bantam AA/FA was named Pure Hell because of her short tempered first owner!
The two links below give a pretty comprehensive history of the Marcellus & Borsch connection & the early days that led up to the 'Winged Express', right from ALVIN MARCELLUS' own lips that goes clear back to 1951!!!
Just being associated with a driver of a AA/FA gawdamed near makes U a Celebrity!!!!!!
She was a California based rig. Lions dragstrip(LOW altitude, WAS the fastest 1/4 mile track in our USA) was no doubt her 'home/favored' strip. We seen her in person clear up north @ the then podunk/backwoods Woodburn Oregon drag strip. She did NOT look as fancy as in the more modern images of her, like she looked ragged & well used but was performing every bit as as good or BETTER than the local glistening/shiny AA/FD's! In the below vid @ 3:38 into the vid is how I remember seeing her that weekend @ Woodburn.
Alvin was both the brains(mechanical engineer) & PR man of the duo. Willie was the "O-N-E HANDED" SHOWBOAT DRIVER that simply overawed everyone including Don Garlits himself!
You can sell just about anything on eBay. Your KC and the Sunshine Band albums. Your collection of Beanie Babies. Your shoebox full of Honus Wagner baseball cards. What you can’t sell, however, is body parts.
www.nhra.com
Both Nanook & Pure Hell have got to be the most successful of all the EARLY(short wheel base) AA/FA's regarding both longevity & lowest ET's. Below; Nanook entering the traps @ a whopping 6.41!
Blistering 6.30 ET for Nanook in the below run, like closing in on the 5 second bracket!!!!!!!!!!
Pure Hell was in the TOP THREE AA/FA back in the day like she's capable of MID/LOW 6 SECOND ET'S as seen in the below vid;
I read a link that stated the little Bantam AA/FA was named Pure Hell because of her short tempered first owner!
The two links below give a pretty comprehensive history of the Marcellus & Borsch connection & the early days that led up to the 'Winged Express', right from ALVIN MARCELLUS' own lips that goes clear back to 1951!!!
Pure Hell went 228 mph in the low 6 ET on that video you posted.
Let me say more about Pure Hell. Rich Guasco, the owner was what we called rich at the time and lived and worked in Livermore, CA. I think the old man in the video you showed is Rich Guasco. He wanted to have a better driver drive his car and my buddy, Dale Emery was the driver. Dale also owned his own top fuel dragster. Dale had a brother named Ray Emery. Ray was a Job superintendent for the corporation he, Dale and I worked for. Dale and I would be on the same job at times and he was the foreman of the pile driver and I was the concrete foreman. We would bunk in the same room on some jobs. The worst time we drove from the SF Bay Area up to Arcata, CA where we were working on the Banks foundation for Wells Fargo I believe. This was in the late 1960s I believe. We rode there in Dales Ford Galaxy and on the way his Generator quit. We had to stop several times at gas stations so the battery could get charged back up. So it added hours to the drive.
Dale also had a drag car that I don't recall it's make. I think it was maybe a Model A.
Dale would visit my machine shop later when it opened. Dale and his wife got divorced. Dale ended up living in TX. There he was driving and working on a Dragster that I know was famous. This Video is Dale sitting in Guasco's Pure Hell and the next is a memory to Dale since he died some years ago.
