I made up for it in the Future Ex Wife thread, but seriously, do not Google Drag Racing now days. Very little about racing.Damn you Rick!
I made up for it in the Future Ex Wife thread, but seriously, do not Google Drag Racing now days. Very little about racing.Damn you Rick!
I grew up in Cali, too, but didn't have anything to do with drag racing. My Uncle Wally (Walt once I started building karts for him just before going into the USAF) was a name in go-kart racing. A couple of the karts I built were sold to Lee Michaels. That's my brush with fame, right there! Last time I looked, I couldn't find anything about him online. Just found this. Updated: Walter Allan Meyers, Mechanic, Inventor, Writer, In Memoriam 12/31/1934 – 03/26/2019 – International Kart Federation Haven't heard from any my cousins in a long time, I guess.My first taste of the disease was at OCIR in California.
Big Funnycar drag racing and the drivers put on a great show.
There was a bit of time between runs and there was a ball cage like you see at wal-mart full of balls to play with right in the staging lanes near the starting line.
Kids were welcomed to go out there and get a ball and keep it or play with it and toss it back in the basket between runs.
Fun times. I was a kid then.
That's funny since the NHRA trophy is called a Wally.I grew up in Cali, too, but didn't have anything to do with drag racing. My Uncle Wally (Walt once I started building karts for him just before going into the USAF) was a name in go-kart racing. A couple of the karts I built were sold to Lee Michaels. That's my brush with fame, right there! Last time I looked, I couldn't find anything about him online. Just found this. Updated: Walter Allan Meyers, Mechanic, Inventor, Writer, In Memoriam 12/31/1934 – 03/26/2019 – International Kart Federation Haven't heard from any my cousins in a long time, I guess.
Bill
For some of us, "Grumpy" with the cigar hanging out like I do on a regular basis was an Icon in the olden days. He was the Mr. King of Chevrolet drag racing. He took what Zora Dontov designed with the first small block chevy motor and then the fat block chevys and refined everything around them with everything from dry sumps to using electric fans to reduce the power needed to turn the radiator cooling fan load to make Chevrolet the most respected name in drag racing for naturally aspirated engines in the world for many decades. He was only to be outdone horsepower wise by Tom Hoover who designed the Hemi motor for Chrysler that could take the pressures of a blown nitromethane motor. Later a friend of Tom's wound up with a "Discarded" mold from Chrysler and with some modifications came out with the cast in aluminum "Kieth Black racing engines" 500ci fuel motor with 6 bolt mains (2 bottom and two from each side) and other modifications, like easily replaceable steel cylinder sleeves and larger cam shaft bearing holes used for several years in top fuel and funny cars. Mine still has the flat water pump and fuel pump machined bosses not drilled out.Closest I got was my uncle by marriage was Bill Grumpy Jenkins.
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