Vintage Hot Rod Photos

[badbeachbuggy]

Hello all, I'm back from my trip. While I was away I had time to work on a few of my Hot Rod Drag photos...













...let me know what you think

[miniman]

Love 'em, especially the first one. Great work

[_dobbo_]

I really like the frames you have used, looks great.

[-DeaDLocK-]

As always, atrocious work. You call that photography?

[badbeachbuggy]

Thanks guys

[Furyous]

BBB, saw the originals in colour, they work MUCH better like that.

As in black & white, I mean

Well done...

F

edited to make post read what I actually wanted to say

Edited by Furyous on Friday 29th September 09:14

[BossCerbera]

Fantastic!

[dinkel]

I absolutely adore vintage Rods 'n Dragsters:


"Hustler I" without some of the sheet metal at Bakersfield in 1962. Doyle Hatfield Photo


1958


1959 Pontiac Custom Safari Station Wagon (style 2735) with a Pontiac-powered 'Slingshot' dragster.


Tommy Ivo 1960



The car was a standard Fuller "light weight" chassis. The wheelbase was 112 inches and the car weighed 960 lbs. The original engine was a 339 Cubic Inch Displacement (CID) Chevrolet small block, equipped with a 6-71 supercharger. The car classed as a A/GD started out running 172 mph with an elapsed time (ET) of 9.00 seconds. By the end of 1963 the speed had risen to 181 mph with an ET of 8.40 seconds. The little Chevrolet ran well, setting records and winning a lot of races; but it was unreliable. The car lost races when the engine broke.

More of this stuff here.




1964 - September 20th. Crossley-Williams-Swan Dragster "Kamakazi I" wins Top Fuel Eliminator at East Haddam, Connecticut Dragway, with a 8.15 ET and track record speed of 196.50 MPH run against A & B Speed Shop.

Amazing stuff. More here.

Pretty times for over 40 years ago. Look at the tires, the blocks in front of the driver: awesome.

[badbeachbuggy]

These are fantastic Dinkel

[miniman]

BBB - would you mind posting a quick tutorial on how to achieve the sepia images??? TIA

[badbeachbuggy]

miniman said:

BBB - would you mind posting a quick tutorial on how to achieve the sepia images??? TIA

I'll sort something out but basically I made them b&w using the gradient map and then used the colour adjustment to change the colour of the b&w image

[M3John]

Some top class pictures there mate.