Summer Airport Drag Pics

[Green Machine]

Our car club held a heads up drag race day at the local airport this summer, we set up a 1/8 mile track on the main runway. We raced all three of our classic trucks with varying results. I'm driving the red 1968 (307 3 speed), my oldest son is driving the 1970 Green Machine (305 4 speed) and the orange 1971 C20 (383 TH350). These pics and over a hundred more were taken by the local newpaper, they shared the pics with us.

Pic 1 and 2 (different races) of the blue truck with built 350 about to get his butt kicked by our 383. They lined up 4 or 5 times until he finally gave up !

Pic 3. Me about to get my butt kicked by the coupe.

[Green Machine]

Pic 4 - Me getting my butt kicked by a Toyota, he has a cam and chip etc, over 400 hp he claims.
But we got him later - see pic 7 !!!

Pic 5 - Son was racing somebody, so far ahead can't see other car.

Pic 6 - two sons, a friend, wife and I checking under the hood of the C20.

[Green Machine]

PIC 7 - SWEET REVENGE !!! - Toyota that kicked my butt getting doors blown off by our Orange 71 !!!

Pic 8 and 9 - Me getting shut down twice by Son's Green Machine. He also shut down a couple of newer trucks with the 5.3 LS engines, pretty quick for a 305 !

[Green Machine]

pic 10 - guy with the blue truck won't give up, orange truck beat him again !!!

pic 11 - I knew my sorta built 307 was faster than a stock 350 and I got a chance to prove it !!.
beat him by 3-4 lengths in the 1/8. Making some right tire smoke there too !!

[70cst]

Now that looked like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing!

[hotrod 80]

Awesome , thanks .

[thirdstreettito]

I'll bet you had a lot of fun and couldn't stop grinning!

[LuckyHenriksen]

Thats awesome. It would be fun to compete in something like that

[special-K]

Where it all began!Thatnks for sharing.You must have had a great time.That`s as American as apple pie and baseball.

Toyota won in the short run.The`68 has already won in the long run.Now put them to work as trucks and see how the Toyota stacks up.

[C20-67_N_MO]

Great pics!

Its nice to see them in a safe environment rather than on public streets.

Thanks for sharing!

[big_al_71]

Originally Posted by special-K

Where it all began!Thatnks for sharing.You must have had a great time.That`s as American as apple pie and baseball.

Toyota won in the short run.The`68 has already won in the long run.Now put them to work as trucks and see how the Toyota stacks up.

I would take that bet!!!!!!

There ain't no way that one of this old buckets can or will keep up with a new toyota like the 5.7 tundra....
You asked how I know? Well 24 years working for toyota and have had at least seven of this tundras as my company demo in the past two years and I have done things with these trucks that I know that my fully built C10 would never be able to do.

Now back to the original programming:

Cool picts and would love to be able to attend something like that with sylvester!!!

[Green Machine]

Did you miss pic #7 ? Toyota getting easily beat by our 71 C20 383, and we are running through old manifolds and skinny 2 inch duals, no headers yet. Also Toyota had 4wd, cam and chip with no traction problems. We spin all the way through first gear, and still beat the Toyota.

Enjoy the pics, and feel free to comment. It went over very well, this was the first time ever, they are going to do it twice this summer. So if you are near Estherville IA this summer, you could join in.
Cheap too, $2 admission, $5 to drag once, or $20 to drag all day.

[bigguy69]

man that is awsome!

[big_al_71]

Originally Posted by Green Machine

Did you miss pic #7 ? Toyota getting easily beat by our 71 C20 383, and we are running through old manifolds and skinny 2 inch duals, no headers yet. Also Toyota had 4wd with no traction problems. We spin all the way through first gear, and still beat the Toyota.

Enjoy the pics, and feel free to comment. It went over very well, this was the first time ever, they are going to do it twice this summer. So if you are near Estherville IA this summer, you could join in.
Cheap too, $2 admission, $5 to drag once, or $20 to drag all day.

I am not doubting any of our buckets being faster than a stock tundra on the 1/8th mile, I was referring more to the comment about a tundra side by side as a "Working Truck"

I know my C10 will kill a Stock Tundra,Nissan Titan, Dodge V10, F150 on a 1/8 or 1/4 mile but now as a working truck I doubt it very much.


I wish I was closer so I could show what my small block 400 could do.

[tim21391]

we have a thing set up like this at our old airport... its 1/8 mile and i wish it was little longer but oh well this july will be my first time doing it when i get my truck all done...great pics by the way

[heavy71chevy]

I wish we had something like this here..we used to run down at the abandoned airport but they tore it down....but seems like it was alot of fun and thanks for sharing the pics