Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
[Re: racingblues1426]
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12/17/10 01:53 PM
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chris3...Crizilla.. racing blues; I sincerely envy you guys for having been there. I see drag racing dying a slow death nowadays and wish something could be done about it.
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Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
[Re: 340B5]
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12/17/10 02:21 PM
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340B5, my son "hemiparts" has made a comment several times that it is a shame that someone could not assemble all of the stories he has heard from those days into a book or something. He hears the stories all the time when, my remaining brothers and I get together, but he also hears all the stories from old friends and racers that he meets at reunions and such. When he had the opportunity to drive the Motown Missile car against Hemifred he commented that unless someone preserves the cars and the stories they will eventually all be gone. When you get guys like Stewart P, Tom Hoover, Hubert Platt talking, the history of Drag Racing is in the recollection of those days. On Saturday night in Henderson, NC I looked through some photographs of the old missle cars on Stewart's lap top and as we were talking at our table, Bo Laws (side note Stewart pointed out who Bo was since I had not seen him in 35 years, old Modified Production days, did not recognize him)and a group were telling old stories and another table, Fred Bear, Dave Hale and other members of the S&S Racing Team (Gassers) were at another table telling stories.
Chris "Hemiparts" called me last night and asked if I realize that 2011 will be the 40th Anniversary of IHRA and that they have a contact on their site wanting names, pictures and stories from the beginning of IHRA.
If you are interested in the History of Drag Racing go to East Coast Drag Times Hall of Fame 1 & 2 on You Tube and look at 2010 reunion. Turn the volume up when you get to the hemi in Billy Lynch's dragster.
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Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
[Re: chris3]
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12/17/10 04:02 PM
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Cab_Burge
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Mr.Cab Racing and winning with Mopars since 1964. (Old F--t, Huh)
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Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
[Re: chris3]
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12/17/10 04:06 PM
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I'll definately do that, and it's about time for another visit to "We did it for love" too. I remember one story of a drag racer that had a wheel bearing problem on his open trailer and showed up for a drag race w/a pair of vice grips holding the wheel bearing on.
Yeah, it's got a smallblock.
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Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
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12/17/10 05:39 PM
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One of my last passes at that track - summer 68.
Fastest 300
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Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
[Re: hemiparts]
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12/17/10 06:10 PM
12/17/10 06:10 PM
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And I'll say it again, YOU"RE LUCKY YA"LL AIN"T DEAD !!!! I look @ you guys running Fuel in a chassis that looks like you guys robbed a plumbing supply yard to build. Sitting on top of rear diffs with no sort of shield. I have to wear more saftey gear in my Super Stocker than you guys wore racing fuel dragsters. I look pictures of Chris3 and all those guys from back in the day racing in t-shirts and polyester bell bottoms ( oh yes i know where i can find some pics of Chris3 @ Rockingham abut the time ya'll are discussing ) and even Dick Landy snatching gears with a foot long stogey hanging out of his mouth. I do wish that someone would set down and record as many of these old stories as possible for the generations to come. We have already lost so many of the legends and the stories that they took with them that will never be told again, these are wonderful stories of times when pro drivers travled on open trailers, sleeping in the trucks and racing 6 nights a week in 5 diffrent states. The sport has evolved so much that if theses stories aren't saved by time my son gets old enough to enjoy them they'll be long gone.
Chris
Looks pretty safe to me. They don't have any guardrails to hit.
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Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
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12/17/10 06:27 PM
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I swear if I find a deal on a Front engine dragster project I am going to build one! Go to six week ends a year--get my thrills and go home--no more bracket BS and no more every Sat at the track all year long ( did it for 15 years) have a GOOD wife now and want to do other stuff-- but make it FUN again! I may be crazy but I really do plan on getting one!
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Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
[Re: chris3]
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12/18/10 12:29 AM
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Went back through my pictures I took with my Mom's Instamatic. I'm suprised they even turned out. Here is the only one that shows a dragster out of the hot pits in the background being pushed towards the starting line. I'm sure it would have already fired off as it is getting close to the starting line. Love the clothes, dress pants and button shirts. The blue jeans and t-shirts must be in the pits.
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Re: Pushed Out of the Hot Pits
[Re: Monte_Smith]
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12/18/10 12:39 AM
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Some tracks, like INDY, were state of the art. That is why the lanes at INDY are long, right behind the starting line, for the old push starts. Beech Bend, had "roller starters" buried in the ground, under the bridge. A guy sat in a pit and operated the SBC, that drove the rollers. It was cool to stand on the bridge, watch the cars fire and get a big dose of nitro fumes. Other tracks, would push to the finish line, turn the cars around, push back, fire then at the tree and turn them around again. And even after they became self starting, TF cars still did not have reversers for several years and you had a gang out there to push the car back after a burnout. That was pretty cool.
Monte
You mean sort of like this....
A little better camera this time compliments of a shopping trip to Nam.
He could bring the crowd to their feet.
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