Nostalgia

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[title_box title=”The 1951 Meteor H/Gasser “]

at Arlington August 21, 1966. We ran it two years, and it was quite the learning experience.

Rich Carlson photo ©

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[title_box title=”The ‘screamin’ Hilborn”]

injected flathead featured Edelbrock heads, and an Isky cam.
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[title_box title=”Sponsors were Chessman “]
Shell Service, Dave Koby Collision Repairs, Ben’s Auto Upholstery and
Cal-Van (Richmond).
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[title_box title=”The front engine dragster was “]
run from 1969 to it’s final year 1973, when it photgraphed at Mission Raceway. It ran in both C/D & Comp Elim.

Rich Carlson photo ©

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[title_box title=”The ‘Family Affair'”]
was our first rear engine dragster. We campaigned this one from 1974 to 1980. This configuration ran both C/D & B/D.
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[title_box title=”The same car at Pomona”]
again as a carburated C/D in 1975.

Rich Carlson photo ©

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[title_box title=”The Loverboy car of”]
1987-1990 seen here in a photo shoot for Northern Wheels Magazine

Larry Pfister photo ©

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[title_box title=”We were Div.6 runner-up”]
in Super Comp twice with the car as well as a TRW AllStar.

Rich Carlson photo ©

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[title_box title=”On April 10, 1986″]
Vancouver television station VU13 closed down a main street for live TV burnout.
Larry Pfister photo ©
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[title_box title=”The on-air host”]

interviewed Loverboy manager
Bruce Allen.

Larry Pfister photo ©

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[title_box title=”This was a blast!”]
Larry Pfister photo ©
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[title_box title=”The G&M Trailers S/Comp”]
car seen at Ashcroft in 1990. This car ran from 1987 to 1990.

Rich Carlson Photo ©

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[title_box title=”The G&M dragster got “]
a new paintjob in ’91 and looked
like this until 1993.

Rich Carlson Photo ©

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[title_box title=”One page of the story”]
that appeared in Super Stock & Drag Illustrated.
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[title_box title=”An article published”]
in a Transit magazine
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[title_box title=”National Dragster”]
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[title_box title=”Pennzoil promotion”]
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[title_box title=”Another one in a”]
local Chinese language newspaper.
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