Glory Days... There was little TV revenue and fewer sponsors; just win money and appearance fees. You could buy a complete 392" Hemi for $75 (from the auto salvage yard), blowers were a reworked GMC-671 with stock rotors- Blocks and heads were cast iron, not aluminum. Early on, you towed your racer to the track on a trailer - it took 3 full race-teams to total 18 wheels! Drag slicks were smaller than today, and offered nowhere near the traction. Drag Strips were often blacktop with gravel pits and a few bleachers.
Quite a few were converted airfields. There were also some great professional operations (Pomona, Lions, Capitol, Englishtown, OCIR) but those were not where we ran the Monday, Wednesday and Friday night Match Races - the races where we made the real money. Those big tracks were for the sixteen and thirty-two Funny Car weekend races where we got nice winner's purses, but mainly they were where we run what we brung & got the "ink" to help our bookings. Was it fun? Yes! Tough? At times, but we were racing our Funny Cars and living our dreams.
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Don Garlits Web-Site
Official Web-Site for "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, voted the Number-One
Drag Racer of all time by the Nat'l Hot Rod Ass'n (NHRA).
In early 2009, Mr. Garlits commissioned me to do a complete
re-Design and re-Structure of his site, to bring it into the "New Millennium".
You may wish to consider spending some time "surfing" through his
web-presence, to get an idea of the scope of his past and present operations.
Waterman Racing Components Web-Site
This Web-Site is a showcase for the many and varied products
designed and engineered by WRC for the world of racing. The signature
products for WRC are racing Fuel Pumps, and they are the most
recognized and respected in the industry. For example, a WRC
fuel pump has been on EVERY Indy 500 Winning race car for the
last thirty years!
You will find yourself speeding through this
colorful and fascinating site as you discover new products!
TruePower LLC Web-Site
In place for some time, this Web-Site is the home for an
exciting new four-cam engine designed entirely for
racing - autos and boats in particular. Smooth, reliable
and powerful (we're talking about both the engines
and the Web-Site here)
you will find much to see as
you page throught the photos and videos.
This site was a winner of the
"
Web-Site of the Week" Award
in June, 2009 presented by Bangshift.com.
www.BangShift.com
Full Throttle RingTones Web-Site
Still under construction, this site is an adventure in the fast-paced
world of racing-oriented cell-phone ringtones, images and audio.
Stay tuned as we develop new avenues in this fun, young world.
Web Site for Fans of Supercharged Nitro AA/Funny Cars
of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Many pages of photos,
videos and audio/slide-show clips of anecdotes from
the "Golden Years" of
Funny Car Drag Racing.
For inquiries, details, specifics and quotes follow the contact links below...
- Email: info@ClareSanders.com
- Business Web-Site www.ClareSanders.com