I always liked this guy and I'm glad he's still doing what he loves. Nice little 4 minute video.


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cool

I met one of his old crew members down in Fla this past spring. Said he was on his team for 4 world championships. Showed me a picture of all of them after Pomona one year after they won. I remembered seeing the same picture in national dragster years ago too. Said he loved racing with him.
Good to hear he is still kicking.

Always liked Mr. Hill and his wife and that was an AWESOME clip man, thankxxx 4 sharing.......

I remember watching Eddie run the Nuclear Banana. He looks like my machinist, Lee Bandrow, from Lab Machine in Lindenhurst.

When I was 21 in 1976, and was in tech school at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls Tx. I bought my Kawasaki Z1 900 from Eddie. I still have the bike and some of the paper work with his signature on it. He signed everything to make sure it was right.

That freaking cool! I forget...was he the first in the 4's or the first 300mph? It was the 300 right?

. Eddie and his wife were such down to earth people who loved the sport. I knew he enjoyed flying remote control airplanes but didn't know he was still hitting the tracks. That really made my day

Eddie is still a class act.
I hope I am half that vital at 78.

Thanks for sharing that with us. I always thought Eddie and Ercie were a class act. I spoke to them several times at national events and they were always very nice down to earth people. It's great to see him still doing things he loves at 78.

He was another guy that never complained.If he won great if he lost he did it with class and didnt cry.NHRA needs more people like him.Rocky

I met him briefly 20 odd years ago qualifying at Firebird. None of that Superstar BS with him and given his resume you could forgive him if he did.

Just a real cool laid back genuinely nice guy.

How you can be that and crazy enough to pilot a Top Fuel drag boat beats me.

Kevin

Talked to them many years ago. Cool people for sure.

Karnack Texas. On 2 different occasions I raced
Eddie Hill for Top Eliminator at Karnack. What a track, it was a crumbling narrow 2 lane blacktop strip that was the runway for a Fishing Lodge. Eddie was a very nice person even back then. I was racing a 32 three window coupe with a 56 Chevy V8 in C/A. I was never any competition for him I was just the 2nd fastest car there. Good memories!!! BTW, he's not all that old he's only 2 yrs older than me.

1st in the 4's

Do you remember what his name was? Eddie only won one NHRA Championship ('93) although he had several Dragboat championships. Fuzzy and Jana Carter made the transition from water to asphalt with Eddie and Ercie, can't remember any of the other boat crewmembers moving over with them.

Driving a nitro drag boat and surviving is a major accomplishment.

And I believe he raced for supershops.
I liked him as well,seemed like a nice guy to me.

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.

That's funny I was thinking the same, Eddie flew on the ground only,Lee got into planes!

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

I always liked Eddie, real down-to-earth guy.

I believe Eddie was first in the 4's, I think Bernstein was the first to hit 300 IIRC