Welcome to the home site of the Double H Drag Strip, a track that hosted some of the South's top Super Stock and Factory Experimental racers during its run in the mid-1960s. Check out the history (still a work in progress), photographs and newspaper clippings, and return to the early match racing days of 409s, Z-11s, Thunderbolts and hemis -- plus a few gassers and "cheatin' four-barrels" thrown in for good measure. You'll also see here mid-1960s images from two other North Georgia tracks -- Paradise Drag Strip in Calhoun, and Lloyd's Drag Strip in Blairsville.
Each page has a site index to help you get around (for this page, it's at the bottom). The site is still under construction, so check back often. If you have any information to add or find information that is in error, please contact me at suchadrag@yahoo.com. Thanks.

Apple Classic Car Show weekend update, 3/24: The car show page is 75-80 percent finished; one more day should have it done. Picture at left is of the tent we had at the show, with videos of old racing film and slide shows of old photos running all day. 
   The Apple Classic page is broken down into day-by-day accounts of the show, a day spent visiting racing-related places in Fannin County and elsewhere, and a visit with Larry Davis, mechanic of the Strip Teaser Thunderbolt (in the pic at left, that's Larry in the red shirt, getting ready to go judge cars).
   Also, the pictures taken at the site of Lloyd's Drag Strip in Blairsville are up, along with an excellent remembrance of the track by Robert Turner. I'll post a picture of a trophy won in 1966 at Lloyd's by Vernon Gibbs, plus Gibbs' memories of the track.
   Georgiadragracing.com to shut down, 3/24: Got the sad news last week that this superb site is being shut down. Health matters for the two guys who are responsible for it, David Dilbeck and his brother, are the reason. The site may be down by now; it was an incredible repository of drag racing history, easily one of the best on the Web, and David has been a great friend of this site. Though the Web site will be gone, David says he'll keep his hand in with his blog ( www.gdrn.blogspot.com ). Keep them in your thoughts.  
Paul Gibbs 2010 season: To make things a bit easier to follow and report on this season's pro mod racing, I've created a separate feature at the bottom of this page for race results and any other news. Of course, the Reece / Paul Gibbs page will remain with detailed pictures of the Cuda Beast and historic photos of his father's racing with the Bad News '62 Ford. You can follow all developments in pro mod on the Web site and message board at www.promodifieds.us .
New 1/19/09:  Eighteen color pictures by Walter Parsons from an F/X--funny car meet at Paradise, circa 1966. Included in the pictures are Arnie Beswick, Pee Wee Wallace and Robert Nance. Shots in the pits and on the track. Great images of the racing environment of that era. See "Other photos 2" page.
New 3/31/09: Strip Teaser page with photos provided by the current owner of the ST Thunderbolt, plus pictures and other info about all of the other Strip Teaser cars.
New 6/23/09:  Film taken at the Double H May 9, 1965, at the Southern World Series of Drag Racing by Roy Smith of Ellijay, Ga. Ronnie Evans provided still photos from that day (see Photos page), and here are the cars in action. A summary: Snippets of 14 races involving at least a dozen different cars in 2 minutes, 52 seconds of color film. Drivers include Howard Neal, Rattlesnake Austin, Herb McCandless, Billy Jacobs, Dick Housey, Gene Wilson and Reece Gibbs. The link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQCapIJXB8 . A page of frames taken from the movie will be added.

Double H videos from 1963-64 on YouTube:
No. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7z2OIuValY
No. 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U50_GYWU8G0
No. 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zwp32U05a0
No. 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiGs10pYgs8
Also on YouTube is a video look at the track from Sept. 30, 2007. As the track is now an airstrip, it has been extended at both ends. The video starts at what was the staging area, and ends at the original shutoff area.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpH8EtfpA0U .

9/1: This Labor Day weekend will be one of intense work for the Cuda Beast team, as they will be putting the big hemi back into the car in preparation for three upcoming races to finish the 2010 season.
   Back from Jeffers Pro Cars ( www.jeffersprocars.com ) and as good as new, the Beast is also on the cover of the latest edition of RPM Magazine ( www.rpm-mag.com ). If you live near a Books A Million store, you can buy a copy from its newsstand, or find it in racing supply firms.
   Last week, Paul was on the phone with DJ Safety ( www.djsafety.com ) in Los Angeles to order a new fire suppression system and engine diaper for the car, when the fellow from DJ, who had been looking through the new RPM edition, asked Paul if he was the owner of the red Barracuda on the cover. When Paul said he was, the DJ guy gave him a discount on the spot for his order.
    The racing schedule remains two this month and one in October: a Southern Outlaw Tour event at Montgomery Motorsports Park Sept. 17-18, followed by a race at Huntsville the next weekend, in the first back-to-back weekends of racing for the team. After that flurry of racing, the Beast will light up the Mickey Thompsons  ( www.mickeythompsontires.com ) at Montgomery Oct. 15-16. If another good race turns up in the next couple of months, that will be a possibility, Paul says.

   Below are a couple of pics of a Pro Street 1971 Dart Paul acquired in an equipment trade. It's all steel, complete interior, fully licensed and street legal, and will do 9.70s in the quarter.