Re: "Grumpy" Jenkins has passed on
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Just heard this from the Stock/SS Group. Another drag-racing icon and innovator has left us.
Wow, hate to hear that. That man knew more in his sleep than I do on a good day.
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Re: "Grumpy" Jenkins has passed on
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03/29/12 12:48 PM
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I had a hate/love relationship with him. Hated to see him against Ronie or any Mopar. Loved everything he did back in the earlier days with stockers.
home of the Sox and Martin Hemi Duster
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Re: "Grumpy" Jenkins has passed on
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03/29/12 02:28 PM
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Sadly, that is the last of the "Big Four", the movers and the heavies of the match race days, the guys who pretty much invented Pro Stock.
Ronnie Sox, Dandy Dick Landy, Dyno Don Nicholson and now the Grump.
You guys will be missed. The sport hasn't; nor ever will experience a time like that. It was the high point of drag racing, bar none. Nothing has come close since.
Thanks for the memories, guys. God Bless.
"Old age and treachery trumps youth and enthusiasm, every time!" East Central Director / Chrysler Power Magazine www.reasbeckracing.webs.com
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Re: "Grumpy" Jenkins has passed on
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03/29/12 03:25 PM
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Sadly, that is the last of the "Big Four", the movers and the heavies of the match race days, the guys who pretty much invented Pro Stock.
Ronnie Sox, Dandy Dick Landy, Dyno Don Nicholson and now the Grump.
You guys will be missed. The sport hasn't; nor ever will experience a time like that. It was the high point of drag racing, bar none. Nothing has come close since.
Thanks for the memories, guys. God Bless.
Wow, Steve...that was well said.
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Re: "Grumpy" Jenkins has passed on
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03/29/12 04:44 PM
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Sadly, that is the last of the "Big Four", the movers and the heavies of the match race days, the guys who pretty much invented Pro Stock.
Ronnie Sox, Dandy Dick Landy, Dyno Don Nicholson and now the Grump.
You guys will be missed. The sport hasn't; nor ever will experience a time like that. It was the high point of drag racing, bar none. Nothing has come close since.
Thanks for the memories, guys. God Bless.
Wow, Steve...that was well said.
Yes it was and I agree 100%. RIP. Ron
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Re: "Grumpy" Jenkins has passed on
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03/29/12 05:17 PM
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Sadly, that is the last of the "Big Four", the movers and the heavies of the match race days, the guys who pretty much invented Pro Stock.
Ronnie Sox, Dandy Dick Landy, Dyno Don Nicholson and now the Grump.
You guys will be missed. The sport hasn't; nor ever will experience a time like that. It was the high point of drag racing, bar none. Nothing has come close since.
Thanks for the memories, guys. God Bless.
And these guys worked wonders when computers were only what NASA was fooling around with.
Bill Jenkins was one of the best. His skills were the stuff of legends. He will be sorely missed and as Steve so well put it, we'll never see the likes of these types of talents in drag racing ever again. RIP.
MB
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Re: "Grumpy" Jenkins has passed on
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03/29/12 06:53 PM
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That guy really impressed me. RIP Grump
Yeah, it's got a smallblock.
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