Here's a real treat for you!

A few weeks ago,  I saw some really nice old photos from a gentleman named Forrest Bond who is on an email group to which I also belong.  I subsequently emailed him to ask if he had any Gasser photos he might be willing to share with the visitors to GasserMadness.com

In response, I received this photo of the Kohler Bros' A/GS vs. Hugh Tucker's AA/SR at the 67 Winternationals at Pomona and a note that said he would be more than willing to share his photos with us.  He's currently going through around 2000 slides and negatives, scanning them all, so I suspect that there will be more to come.  Most are probably dragsters, etc. but as you'll see here, he shot a lot of great Gasser photos too!

By the way, I emailed Hugh to ask who won.  Here's his response: "That was the final round for Super Eliminator at Winternationals 1967.  He won.  I did a second gear start to try to keep from breaking out, that was a bad decision."

Forrest has sent a number of photos he took at the 1965 NHRA Nationals at Indianapolis while he was covering the meet as editor of National Dragster.   There are quite a few Gasser shots and a pretty good amount of the early Funny Cars.  Back in 1965, NHRA hadn't quite figured out what to do with the Altered Wheelbase and blown, injected, nitro-burning late-model coupes & sedans.  The end result was that those cars, when they showed up for an NHRA meet, were sort of "thrown in" to whatever existing NHRA they fit.  That's why you'll see photos of Steve Bovan's Nova running as a B/FD or Phil Bonner and Hayden Proffitt racing each other in the B/A (B/Altered) class.

You may also notice that Forrest has placed a copyright notice on each of his photo, but made it as small as legally allowed so they won't interfere with your enjoyment of the photos. 

Please do him the courtesy of respecting that copyright!

GasserMadness is licensed to publish these photos by Forrest, and to make them available to you, but on the condition that no other commercial use be made of them. They are for your personal enjoyment only. You are welcome to save them for your own use (wallpaper, printing, etc.) but you must leave the copyright on them. Commercial use of any kind is prohibited, without the written permission of Forrest Bond, who will vigorously pursue copyright violations! If anyone wants to make commercial use of them, they can contact Forrest through me, and I think you'll find him to be very cooperative.

If you don't respect Forrest's copyright, then we won't get more of his photos, like the Anglia Gasserfest at Half Moon Bay, California in 1965!

When I asked Forrest if he'd like me to put these up in a manner that would make them more difficult to copy or save, the answer was an emphatic "No!"  He wishes to share the photos with people like GasserMadness folks who will appreciate them, subject to the few restrictions above.  Remember, just because they appear on the Internet does NOT (contrary to a common misconception) place them in the Public Domain. 

Forrest Bond retains all rights to these photos and will vigorously pursue copyright violations!

Other than that, Forrest wants you to enjoy the photos he took over 40 years ago, and so do I.

Thanks,
Byron