My morning at work.....

[57 lima bean]

Getting Tom Hoover's Woody Gilmore chassis car in the museum on campus..........http://www.hotrod.com/articles/the-most-beautiful-top-fuel-dragster-ever-built/

[cjshaker]

And all we have on campus is an art exhibit with some crap that supposedly passes for art these days

[turbohunter]

I agree. What a beautiful digger.
Gotta say I'd much rather see the front motors run anytime.

[machoneman]

Very cool!

But I can think of a bunch of equally cool and most beautiful front-engined diggers of the era. Like:

-Any of Tommy Ivo's rides.
-Keeling & Clayton's beautiful ride.
-the Magicar dragster
-Kalitta's 1st Bounty Hunter with SOHC Ford power, was on the HR cover too.

Many more to like the In-and-Out Burger dragster, the Smirnov digger (forget the owners now) and others. I think the HR staffers who named this ride are way too young to have even known, let alone seen, the rails I mentioned.

Too bad as they should have a reader contest after reviewing pics of old diggers. 

 

[turbohunter]

Prudohme had one shaped very much like Hoovers also.
Beautiful

[57 lima bean]

"Any of Tommy Ivo's rides"......Indeed so!!!!!!!!!!!

[thatdarncat]

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I saw when they displayed the dragster at the GSTA show last spring, it is beautiful. I'm only disappointed that they didn't put a cammer in it ( the car competed with both a SOHC and a Chrysler ). I'm sure we could have advised them on the build 

[cammerfe]

For 'Early' and 'Most Beautiful' one should look at the 'Glass Slipper'.

KS

[Falcon67]

And all we have on campus is an art exhibit with some crap that supposedly passes for art these days

Bent up metal, what looks like a fixation on death and misc general weirdness

[machoneman]

Some great stories here on the death of the F.E. dragster. 

http://wdifl.com/Oblivion.html

[cjshaker]

And all we have on campus is an art exhibit with some crap that supposedly passes for art these days

Bent up metal, what looks like a fixation on death and misc general weirdness

You have no idea just how right you are. One piece is a 3' wide, 30' long I-beam that is twisted into a simple loop in the middle...prominently displayed. Must have taken years of experience to come up with that idea 

[Heo]

Here down by the river we had a..........you know those cheap
disposabel wooden pallets with some seaweed or just old dried
grass hanging on it, rigged up in a 50-60 degre angle i thougt
that was something some kids had dragged up from the river
and played with.....NOOOOO it was some art that the county
had payed big money for

[AlanCasida]

Light them candles, Steve!

[57 lima bean]

Light them candles, Steve!

    There weren't enough "save spaces" for the more tender students.

[machoneman]

Here's the infamous Berwyn, IL car nail from 1989!

https://www.google.com/search?q=berwyn+car+nail&rlz=1C1SAVS_enUS541US568&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZ-euJuerTAhUJ0YMKHetUDZQQ_AUICygC&biw=1024&bih=490#imgrc=A8eu7ct1NRNSTM:

[Falcon67]

You have no idea just how right you are. One piece is a 3' wide, 30' long I-beam that is twisted into a simple loop in the middle...prominently displayed. Must have taken years of experience to come up with that idea 

Yes I do LOL - I'm from Fort Worth so we go back there periodically for fun.  Spent an afternoon in the Museum of Modern Art.  One of the "exhibits" was an 8' T-12, single bulb, pin type, commercial fluorescent fixture mounted to the wall at a 45 degree angle.  The skaggy power cord was plugged in, light on.  I went to use my phone to record this amazing piece of inspiration to share with the world when a museum employee stopped me; "The artist doesn't allow photographs of their work."  My less than PC response was "If I dug a junk fixture out of the dumpster, nailed it to a wall and called it art I'd probably not want it shared around either."  I think we nearly got escorted out.  But didn't so got to further enjoy the rooms full of oddball nudes in various contortions, offered by the featured artist, up on the top floor.