robinjackson
Nitro Member
The earlier thread, “Bob Glidden – Atlanta 1981”, prompted me to dig out some of my own snapshots from that race.
Through the 1980s I covered NHRA events for several UK publications. Atlanta 1981 – the inaugural Southern Nationals – was my first assignment, for Custom Car magazine. Back then, NHRA’s photo credential was just a numbered tin badge, and I found I’d been given badge number 001 (historic artefact, huh?).
Like some other Southern dragstrips of that time, the track was set into a cutting with only an 8ft-wide concrete pathway separating it from the spectators on either side. There was a dugout by the start line alongside the right lane.
(See pic. 14)
Who can identify the mystery photographer in pic. 13? (Jon Asher can, I’m sure.)
Twenty pictures here (hope this works):
Flickr: rwillanj's Photostream
Through the 1980s I covered NHRA events for several UK publications. Atlanta 1981 – the inaugural Southern Nationals – was my first assignment, for Custom Car magazine. Back then, NHRA’s photo credential was just a numbered tin badge, and I found I’d been given badge number 001 (historic artefact, huh?).
Like some other Southern dragstrips of that time, the track was set into a cutting with only an 8ft-wide concrete pathway separating it from the spectators on either side. There was a dugout by the start line alongside the right lane.
(See pic. 14)
Who can identify the mystery photographer in pic. 13? (Jon Asher can, I’m sure.)
Twenty pictures here (hope this works):
Flickr: rwillanj's Photostream
