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Legendary Top Fuel and Funny Car racer Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen passes away
NHRA.COM ^ | 11 Jun 2018 | Posted by NHRA.com staff

Posted on 06/16/2018 1:21:54 PM PDT by mabarker1

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To: mabarker1

Thanks and RIP


21 posted on 06/16/2018 3:06:09 PM PDT by umgud
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To: mabarker1

Yep. Me too. I had the comic book too.

Is Snake still alive?


22 posted on 06/16/2018 3:28:44 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SaveFerris

Same here. It happens. Still fun though.


23 posted on 06/16/2018 4:28:10 PM PDT by BikerTrash
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To: mabarker1

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Motor City Dragway—Don “The Snake” Prudhomme versus Don Garlits for the NHRA World Championship title!

Heard that on CKLW radio about a thousand times back when I was a kid...


24 posted on 06/16/2018 5:12:51 PM PDT by W. (.44 Magnum. No further questions needed.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Don is still alive -— 77


25 posted on 06/16/2018 5:23:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: mabarker1

I was done with drag racing by the time funny cars came along. My first “sanctioned” race was at Hammer Field in 1952 (now the Fresno Air Terminal). My nephew got enough money for his Hot Wheels & Match Box cars in the original boxes to remodel his kitchen. Listed them on Craigs List and a Japanese collector bought them...


26 posted on 06/16/2018 5:28:43 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: mabarker1

I saw Shirley race top fuel in Vegas years ago. It was my first drag race so I made sure to get right up against the fence across from the starting line.

Mistake.


27 posted on 06/16/2018 5:29:47 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: OldMissileer

A co-worker of mine in the 1990s, visited his son in TN while on vacation. He showed us photos of his son’s collection.

His son had converted the basement into a temperature-controlled area, with lighted display cases about 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide with glass doors and shelves. The cases were side-by-side along 3 walls of the basement.

The collection had been appraised to be worth more than $1 million at that time. It was heavily insured.


28 posted on 06/16/2018 5:31:39 PM PDT by octex
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To: vespa300
Grew up in Hacienda Heights CA

La Mirada.

29 posted on 06/16/2018 5:31:43 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: mabarker1

Indeed.

They were a LOT of fun.


30 posted on 06/16/2018 5:46:01 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: mabarker1

Grew up in the Inland Empire in the mid ‘60’s when there was still a drag strip in Fontana. Good times....

RIP, Tom. Thanks for all the memories.


31 posted on 06/16/2018 6:15:07 PM PDT by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: mabarker1

I just ordered my first pair of hearing aids and I turn 70 this year...I think feeling old is normal for old people.


32 posted on 06/16/2018 6:16:12 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: samadams2000

With you brother!


33 posted on 06/16/2018 6:22:30 PM PDT by stevio (MAGA)
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To: mabarker1

Grew up in the Inland Empire in the mid ‘60’s when there was still a drag strip in Fontana. Good times....

RIP, Tom. Thanks for all the memories.


34 posted on 06/16/2018 7:38:35 PM PDT by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Still kicking. IIRC He’s got 4 Funny Cars making up the Team.


35 posted on 06/16/2018 10:49:53 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: samadams2000; aomagrat; Chode; Cicero; fieldmarshaldj; Michael.SF.; BikerTrash; SaveFerris; ...

Thanks Everybody for your stories, pics, info and memories of good times.

The Good Old Days. It would be neat to have a Time Machine and go back to when times were simpler.

(plus we could solve a butt load of political problems)

From Bristol aka Thunder Valley:

FINALS Sunday, June 17, 2018 7:30pm - 10:30pm ET FS1 ORIGINAL

FINALS Monday, June 18, 2018 9:00pm - Midnight ET FS2 RE-AIR

FINALS Thursday, June 21, 2018 7:00pm - 10:00pm ET FS2 RE-AIR

FINALS Friday, June 22, 2018 3:00am - 6:00am ET FS1 RE-AIR

NHRA IN 30 Friday, June 22, 2018 8:30pm - 11:30pm ET FS2 ORIGINAL

NHRA IN 30 Sunday, June 24, 2018 11:00am - 2:00pm ET FS1 RE-AIR


36 posted on 06/16/2018 11:44:21 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

La Mirada.....just over the hill. Cool........:)


37 posted on 06/17/2018 11:38:54 AM PDT by vespa300
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