Byron, I'm sending you a bunch of e-mails with the gasser pics I spoke to you about last week. If you can't get them or if they are not good enough let me know and I will send you the original pictures. They were all taken by me at Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, MD. around 1963 or '64. These first two are Big John Mazmanian. I hope you can use some of them for your web site. Thanks.
Gary Sewell

You bet I can use them Gary.  These are some pretty cool photos...and I bet that the visitors to the site will enjoy them too.  Thank you, Byron.

Big John Mazmanian

K.S. Pittman

Some local guys out of Wilmington, Delaware. Donovan
Brothers A/Gas Prefect.

Thanks to Bob "Plum" Plumer for the further ID. 

Donovan-Welch-May

More local boys from New Jersey. Not sure what class this car was or if it was even a gasser. But it sure looks like one.

This was another local guy out of Newport, Delaware, named Ray Marsh. A blown 327 Chevy with a four speed.  This was a wild ride. It was, in the infinitely difficult to understand NHRA classification system in those days, in the Modified Sports Car class. But to me it was a gasser.

Update:  14 October 2003

    My son called me yesterday all lit up to tell me he thought he had found pictures of my car from the early '60s.  He was right.  The car in Gary's list @ Cecil Co. was my car.  I traded it in at Diver Chevrolet in Wilmington, DE in Mar of 1962.  Since it had body damage in two places they called Ray Marsh because they knew he used equipment like that and wholesaled it off.  I drove away in my "New" '62 Corvette and he came and got the '59 and made a dragster out of it.

     Some time after that, maybe a year or less, he was killed at Cecil Co. when his chute didn't open and he went into the trees.  I don't know what happened to the car or the remains of it, but would certainly like to find out.

     Thanks for the memories.

  Jim Jr.

 beachbum43_1999@yahoo.com

Fred Bear of the S&S Racing Team

Another local car. It was a gasser, just not sure what class. A 1940 Ford coupe, small block Chevy/four speed combo. It was all primer and lovingly called the "filthy Forty". The neat thing about this car was it would bring the front wheels off the ground in every gear.

Gary,  This is Charlie Hill's "Filthy Forty" Willys with "Pork" Zartman at the helm.  For those who didn't see the original snapshot, it was REALLY small.  No way could you really see the car well at all.  Byron