Cruz Pendregon in 1965, photo from the back page of the Dec 2011 Car Craft

Drag racers know Cruz is in his own career as a remarkable drag racer... but for the rest of the readers who aren't drag racing followers, his dad Frank was also a drag racer of great fame. This photo was taken by Pat Brollier at Fontana in Nov '65

Drag racing dump truck clocks a 15 second pass. Damn! that is hauling!

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/

Super Stock Dodge, of the B/FX truck variety... 413 dual quad with a fibergalss front end built by Dragmaster, that ran 12.69 1/4 mile

Effing awesome. Similar truck bad assness was the 426 Max Wedge Dodge trucks http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-is-rare-426-max-wedge-in-dodge.html

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/

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/

Anglia dragsters

found on http://pour15minutesdamour.blogspot.com/2009/09/play-now-my-lord.html

from 8520bubby.tumblr

a good variety at http://8520bubby.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!