I am one who can certianly remember all those days/things. I can remember when Cris the greek ran the first unoffical 200MPH at Oswego drag strip, he was running Hydozine and totally illegal.
i believe the first concrete continenal tire (mounted in the trunk lid)that i ever saw was on Goerge Montgomerys' 34 willy's with a blown cattilac motor and that was in 1958 at US 30 drag strip in Ind. I knew Austin coil when he was running out of Mr Norms dealership Forconis,Memic and Coil, who converted most of the Dodge hemis for Crysler. I built my first blow car in 1964 with the parts purcheased from Kenny Herraita (Lowel Ind.) aka Herraita & Hobbs (spelled wrong i'm sure), I also remember sneaky Pete Robison who would spot the Hemi's a car length and still out run them with a s/blk chevy, But i also remember some bad times, like when my friend Chuck Suba, driving the checkmate dragster hit the barrel covering the finish line lights at Rockford drag strip killing him instantly. Days gone by were great and i'm glad to have been there, but i'm also glad that we now have much better cars and the safty is 1000 times better than those days.
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