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a mini dress and go go boots.. so I guess Jungle Pam wasn't the only go go boot wearer in drag racing!

I must have found this photo on a site I was just looking at, but I don't know which one. Gentlemint? Gentleman racer? I'm not sure

But Carol got into drag racing young, at age 15 at the wheel of her boyfriends 55 Mercury... and she had her  own car at age 19, a 64 Mustang. Racing seems to have been quickly a overly expensive hobby, and Carol went to work for big tips at the Playboy Club, and then returned to drag racing with a nickname... Bunny.

She kept racing for decades, and in 1986 won the IHRA championship in alochol funny cars!

http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCStory.asp?ID=193839

Well, now that I look at them closer, maybe calling those "wheelie bars" was a mistake, but they are sure set for showmanship wheelies

Found on http://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2013/04/vintage-corvettes-at-races.html

the car he raced was this rear engined Barracuda, one of only 2 rear engined funny cars racing in 1974



his ordinary job for 47 weeks a year was as a firefighter


the movie covers the drag strips in So Cal mostly, but also Oklahoma and Utah


and I've no idea why the races at El Mirage and Bonneville are in the movie, or even if they are from 1974




Carl and Veda Orr!



and no shit, they lit the back tire on fire to race bicycles with small chutes that were pulled in a parking lot race

Von Dutch pinstriping on the back?


In the credits it lists San Fernando as the dragstrip they filmed at

the movie plot is about the girl in the T Bird, far side of the track in the above photo

I can't recommend the movie, it's so over the top force feeding the anti street racing propaganda it's actually disgusting. 

 

 
 

 this one says Ram Air IV on the side of the scoops