Jon Marchman
as an official 'bout '85
Pete Hill's
supercharged knucklehead in the 80's
Look! It was street Legal and it
was...BAD!! Bout 82
Wesley Matthews,
early Temple Drags
This was the Diffin Brothers fuel
sportster in about ‘85. With Ray
Price tuning it they were dicing it
out with “The Judge” & “MO” &
holding their own and winning their
share..
Leo Hess, early 80's. Recognise
any bystanders?
This is a pretty bad print -
(don’t try adjusting
your computer) It’s KT &
his old partner with
Miss Harley Davidson
1984 at Temple.
This is Austin’s Charlie
Machado at the first Temple
Party Drags and that his son on the
same bike at the same track 20 years
later - last I heard they still had the old XL
R and was waiting for a GRANDCHILD.
Duke McDonald’s blown fuel
shovelhead. Check this thing out, It was built
in the late 70’s and ran like stink when he could keep
it together. About 4 passes was as much as he could ge
t on a motor and it wasn’t something you could do at the track.
Cost him a FORTUNE - but he owned a seaport in Alabama - so what.
Early Temple -
Ron Hall in the background
This was me and Truett pulling back
from the big end out in California
in the mid 70’s. We never used
tow bikes then. We’d door
- handle fuelers to
crank ’em, make
a pass and then
door - handle
back fro
m the
big
end.
This was my first "fueler" in 1973, a 114"
Shovelhead in a Chapman Chassis. That
sucker would do everything but go straight
down the track, note the lead on the front
downtubes to hold the front end down., no wheelie bars back
then !! This was taken at Truett & Osborn’s race just before I
got beat by Teddy Sondregger from St. Louis.
This is
Ray Willett
when we had
Eastex Dragway
just North of Houston
in the early ‘90’s. He
was our full time
Announcer and now
he’s the Texas Style
Party Drags Tower Boss.
Me riding Bonnie
Truett’s Sportster in the early 80’s
at Gulfport after the "first" time he retired. I think
that this is the one that was Mike Romine’s first dragster.
This was Bonnie Truett’s
double engine Sportster in
about 1974. This thing
was definately a handfull..
I’ve seen this digger
with the front end 4’ up in the
air !!!! yyyyyyyyyeeeeeee
hhhhhhhaaaaaaa!!!!!!
