Ronnie Evans' photos also include pictures he took at Paradise Drag Strip in Calhoun, Ga. -- www.paradisedragstrip.net -- such as the great one above (shot with a Polaroid), which really captures the essence of the racing that took place at small, unsanctioned tracks in the South in the 1960s. As Ronnie noted, "You could just about reach out and touch the cars as they went by." 
   Many of the cars and drivers he photographed at Calhoun also ran at the Double H in Blue Ridge, so I decided to display them here. There are more Strip Teaser photos, Robert Nance displaying a trophy, super stock driver Al Mason, the 'Mongoose' '55 Chevy cheatin' 4-barrel and those two racing each other, and the "Crop Duster" Thunderbolt from Decatur, Ga., driven by David Harrell.
   Next are two shots of Phil Bonner's Thunderbolt -- where it came to rest, and as it was ready to be towed away -- after it was wrecked at Paradise by one of Bonner's employees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Jody Aberts and Bill Farmer for identifying this "unknown" T-bolt as David Harrell, and thanks to Bill for this next picture, from National Dragster: