Lets see some of the old stuff.  Can you guess the boats and drivers?  Post um if you got um.  Looking to add some pictures to my race room.

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Geral Laney

Is the one in the forground Petric?

THATS EASY!!!!   DEXTER TUTTLE IN THE FAR LANE IN THE NITRO EXPRESS.   AND FRED FARNDON IN THE NEAR LANE AT THAT TIME THE BOAT CALLED THE FARNDON AND FOSS SPECIAL.

Padgett,

You and Wardance are amazing.  Correct- and I'm not sure, but is that at Red Bluff?  Looks like the boat Dexter crashed racing Eddie Hill.  Can you please post some photos of Final Effort?

its is hard to tell wich boat it is they all were painted the same. i dont think he was dangerous as everyone thinks. he just didnt lift. that was when fuel boat drivers are what i call "OUTLAWS"

Does anyone recall a BFH or BFF named War Bonnet . I met a very nice guy at a trade show and we found we had a mutual interest in Drag Boats . He said he drove a boat called War Bonnet and I could remember the boat  but not the name of the driver . I have his name but that would take the fun out of the question. Do any of you Drag Boaters know the drivers name ?

The "WAR BONNET" was owned by Jack Hardy. The only one that comes to my mind right now that drove it was Ron Ehde. It campaigned in the Unblown Gas Hydro class and was the NDBA Record holder in the early 70's. I think it was a Charger hull and was the boat that everyone wanted to put on the trailer. Very consistent, his

 does anyone have pics of the tfh nitro fever or the coors light silver bullet?

How about this classic picture of the Coors boat

That silver bullet pic is f'n awesome.

The best I can do right now would be to show you a pic of their T-shirt. I do have the shirt and somewhere I do have some great pics of Jimmy and Frank Dade (Smoke on Water) as well as Nitro Fever and Liberty (Dave Nolte) at Chowchilla. I'll start searching for them.

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TopWop/Bruce Pedretti
Chowchilla Chicken Chokers

Memory lane is only a 1/4 mile long

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 thanks i had pics at one time but they have gotten lost. i would also love some pic of jerry bogg's terminator 2 i own that boat now its the Aqua-Haulic.

ADMIN thats a great pic, but it is actually steve wagner driving the boat in that pic.

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NOTHING TURNS ME ON LIKE NITRO AND DIRTY STRIPPERS I LOVE THOSE STRIPPERS

CAPSULES WHO NEEDS THEM

Greg are you sure, this picture was sent to my by Pam Walker.

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My new " Its a Dell" just got here.  What scanner should I get?  Can't wait to get my old stuff converted to digital.  Great shot of Wagner.  I've got one on fire I'll post soon.  He was racing Brad in Final Effort which did not start.

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Geral Laney

I have the HP Scanjet 3670 Scanner  at home and a Minolta CF2002 at work. I look forward to seeing those pictures.

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admin look at the deck of the boat looks like it says wagner not walker.

Greg all I can say is your eye sight is better than mine!!! lol Here is the large imgae and it does look like a g in the name but Pam did the photochop with Kyle in the picture 12 years ago that's when I put it on the first ADBA website. Boy has technology come along way!! lol

Looks like Kyle Wagner to me lol.  Admin which one do you like better.  I'll get it Wednesday.

Geral, I've used the all in one scanner, printer,fax units from HP and Lexmark with no problems. My personal favorite is an old Logitech color scanner that just keeps on running. Now for the places to look for great deals...My mom and sister have me convinced that homeshopping.com is an online sight to always consider...also check newegg.com. they are a smorgasbord of computer pieces and parts.

Good luck and I hope this helps

Take care

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TopWop/Bruce Pedretti
Chowchilla Chicken Chokers

Memory lane is only a 1/4 mile long

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Geral,

 

I have to agree with Bruce about the All-N-One units that’s why I like the Minolta because it is a commercial All-N-One Color (photo grade) printer, scanner and copier!!! lol my personal HP scanner does negatives and slide plus… it been reliable and dependable for quite a few years. Cost about a buck & quarter I think four years ago. If you have the time do a Google for the scanner like Bruce said you can get some pretty good deal if you don’t need it now off the net.

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Thanks.

Geral Admin and I aren't cheap...We're "EASY" when it comes to great old photos... Patience is something I have to work on....

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TopWop/Bruce Pedretti
Chowchilla Chicken Chokers

Memory lane is only a 1/4 mile long

The picture is of Kyle Walker taking his drivers test in London, Ontario - 1986.  Steve Wagner stepped down and Fred Bray called in (as Roger Monroe called him that weekend) "Rent-a-shoe-Walker".  The reason I know this is because it's my shot.  I took it from the finish line.  If you take a closer look you'll notice he can't see a darn thing.  He told me he had forgotten to tighten his chin strap.  It was at that moment he was letting off the throttle (see the butterflies).  At the next race in St. Louis I asked Nick (pres of ADBA at the time) if he should have given him his license.  Of course he should if you can drive a Blown Fueler at 180 mph without being able to see!!!

I don't recall where, but I read a bio/story about Kyle and the call he got asking if he wanted to go faster than he had ever been before shoeing a BFH.  He talked about not having his helmet tight and it covering his eyes on the pass.  Makes me stop and think and shake my head in amazment.  Very special man that can do that.

Got my new scanner, but can't get the wireless to work right for it or the DSL.  Getting closer.

Geral, The next time I talk to Hippie George I'll see if he has a picture of a firebird incident of his. He hit a roller on the big end causing him to lift and get back into it. The blower exploded and hit him hard enough to split his helmet and knock him on onto the deck of the boat with both hands on the wheel. He said it was quite interesting to be looking up at the sky laying flat on his back at 180mph.

Does anybody have a shot of the 1981 or 82 Drag Boat Roundup in Chowchilla where Frank Dade won TFH. The pass was made at dusk and when it was over there was a "Nitro Haze" floating about 10 - 15 feet over the water. The announcer said, "The picture tells it all, Smoke on Water is your event winner.

I wish I could remember who was runner-up. I want to say it may have been Jimmy Wright & Nitro Fever...But I've been wrong before..

***Sending positive thoughts your way to get that scanner fired up and working on the wireless....***

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TopWop/Bruce Pedretti
Chowchilla Chicken Chokers

Memory lane is only a 1/4 mile long

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Here are some shots that were given to me as a Christmas present.  Shade makers have come a long way!!

The greatest thing about those photos is that there is not an enclosed trailer or semi-truck in sight.  Back then it was about the boats....not who has the bigger circus!

If you look closely to scan0003, you'll see Karl Petrik's Sundown getting ready to come out of the water.  The picture was taken in 1979 at Dayton.  Karl was running comp hydro that year.  Any guesses as to which Blown Fueler it is?

TopWop

Yes.  I have pictures of Smoke on the Water at Chowchilla.  I think its 82.  It is the race that Hill ran the 229mph pass.  Was there 2 races that year at Chowchilla?  I thought Eddie Hill won the final that weekend.

everyone has there own way of knowing i guess .........

but for me every picture of wagner i ever saw he had a very distinctive way he leaned into the steering wheel and ive always noticed that it looked the same in every picture i was ever shown ... like a man in control

in the picture in this thread of the coors boat the driver even looks like a blind man holding on for dear life! ..... more like the man in the inserted picture

i also thought the picture of nitro express/farndon foss was at chowchilla ... those trees looked more like the ones to the right after the starting line ... and it reminds me of a picture in an old hot boat magazine.

and ......

and the water ...... it looks like chowchilla water ( dont ask ... it just does)
been to both places enough times

marc

Geral,
Eddie was runner-up when he set that record. Jimmy Wright / NitroFever won that race.

There may have been three races that year...I'm not 100% on that though...

I edited this, earlier I had posted Nitro Bandit as the boat and we all know that Brad Tuttle drove Nitro Bandit...

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TopWop/Bruce Pedretti
Chowchilla Chicken Chokers

Memory lane is only a 1/4 mile long

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your right there could have been 3 races there that year, i remeber as a kid being in california for months at a time it seems like as while in texas for months at a time and come home for a week or two for our ADBA races. i loved living in a hotel room. i wouldnt have traded that child hood for anything. i also remeber when there was so many NDBA,SDBA,ADBA,and at that time a sanction IHBA races that the season opener in pheonix at the feb. or beganing of march. then we were on the road it seems everyweeked tell about october. i loved traveling so much, all the nice people wild parties at the motel bars and pools, i saw alot at an early age

I had a chance to dig thru the album a little bit and found a couple more pics that fall into this category.  The first is Final Effort and Hillbilly in High Point, NC in 1987.  Maybe Gregory can help us with the details on who is driving Final Effort.  My guess was Weathered, but I could be wrong.  I think Jerry Fulgham was driving Hillbilly.  The other shot is of Hillbilly leaving the starting line at the World Finals in Phoenix in 1986.

that was gaylord driving,  remember there is no LORD like a GAY lord

Anybody got the old shirts for sale?  Other than the Loporchios shirts?  That Nitro Fever is cool...

I was going through some old pics...here they are

I had post a reply about a BFH called War Bonett the name I ment was War Paint . Does anyone recall who drove this boat ? I think it was a BFH .

I don't know about war paint but I own WAR BONNET ,we aquired it from a friend of my dads in the mid to late 80s.

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Bernie
My wife wants to know if they make Nitro room deoterizer or perfume

Regarding these War boats the driver I'm trying to recall I thought drove a boat with the name War..... something . Is your War Bonnet a Flatty of Hydro . War Paint was what I have been told a BFH anyone recall anything close ?

War bonnet is a shovel nosed hydro I do not ever remember it being on fuel when Jack Hardy owned it.,That person I got it from ran in the brackets with it Benie

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Bernie
My wife wants to know if they make Nitro room deoterizer or perfume

lets bring this thread back to life it has been months since anything has gone on in here?????????

Greg thats funny that you agree, I was just telling Laurie we needed to fire up the old Drag Boat Nostalgia  section. We have had some request latly from some school kids want to do book reports on drag boat racing.

Name the MOONING BFH driver ? Padgett give a couple posts before you fire of the answer ! How is your Dad doing ?

he isnt doing any better,  he is being stubborn old gordon wont take his meds. or do any rehab.

oh and SAVED, i wont answer this one. i will let everyone else get it