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Re: Eddie Hill. Still at it at 78 years young
[Re: pittsburghracer]
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11/02/15 11:00 PM
11/02/15 11:00 PM
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Fulton County, PA
CMcAllister
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Mr. Helpful
Joined: Dec 2005
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Fulton County, PA
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I remember a finish line interview with Eddie years ago when he jumped out of the car after a good run, looked at the camera smiling and said "If more people knew what that felt like, they'd mortgage their houses and go do it." I miss the days when people like Eddie and Ercie with Fuzzy Carter and his wife, could go out and barnstorm, and win races and championships. Seems like it was better times than the ultra serious, corporate professional racing of today.
Last edited by CMcAllister; 11/03/15 05:18 PM.
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Re: Eddie Hill. Still at it at 78 years young
[Re: sgcuda]
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11/03/15 12:54 AM
11/03/15 12:54 AM
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Great Neck,LI,new york
hemi-itis
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I Live Here
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Great Neck,LI,new york
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I remember watching Eddie run the Nuclear Banana.  He looks like my machinist, Lee Bandrow, from Lab Machine in Lindenhurst. That's funny  I was thinking the same, Eddie flew on the ground only,Lee got into planes!
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Re: Eddie Hill. Still at it at 78 years young
[Re: John_Kunkel]
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11/03/15 04:48 AM
11/03/15 04:48 AM
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Franklin, TN
23T Hemmee
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mopar
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Franklin, TN
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Driving a nitro drag boat and surviving is a major accomplishment.  An open cockpit boat at that!! Survived the crash at Firebird in '84, going through traps at 217, earlier when running an A/Fuel boat, I think at St. Louis, he went over the deck and he tripped the clocks at 166, that's he, not the boat, just him skipping across the finish line, tripping the clocks with his body. Pretty sure that would have ended anybodys' boat racing career, but he went blown shortly after that, finally setting speed record at 229, a record that stood for most of ten years. The man was awesome to watch. A good read from NHRA Top 50. http://www.nhra.net/50th/top50/E_Hill14.html
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