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: