The Silver Showtime Pontiac?
Bob Jarret bought it in '87 and took it across the pond. Gary Page drove it as well as Tom Hoover (Tom is who Jarret bought it from.)
Then there is the Purple Power Corvette:
Posted on 06/27/2004 7:52:21 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion
Prayers here too. I haven't seen a crash that bad in a long time.
It's not the speed that kills you...
...it's the sudden deceleration at the end.
R.I.P.
Prayers for his family. We used to follow drag racing all the time back when Big Daddy was racing.
Deceleration sickness kills!
Would one of you ping the NASCAR group for the bad news?
nothing on espn.com about this? they are replaying this event now.
There is also a NASCAR event in Sonoma: The Dodge/Save Mart 350 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race at Infineon Raceway.
The track has just been repaved, and is much faster. Very dangerous around the curves, lots of spin outs in the trials.
I haven't checked on what the outcome was.
Do you have the ping NASCAR list?
no. what about Norms Revenge, he seems interested in motorsports related items.
Yep Garlits, Kalita and Don The Snake Prudhomme, great races then.
Jeff Gordon won the Sonoma race.
Prayers for the family of Darrell Russell.
boy, those 300mph trap speeds make it hard to shut down, even with the chutes ... I am sorry to hear this man lost his life ...
prayers for his family ...
Thanks for the info.
More prayers and comfort for Darrell Russell's family.
Terrible news...I was praying that this wasn't gonna be a John Force article...still horrible...prayers up.
We've been to the Garlits museum in Fla. I found it fascinating. Before Heartland Park in Topeka opened the big guys used to come to KCIR in south KC. It's about 10 miles from us and we would go every year to the nationals held there.
After they started going to Topeka we kinda quit following drag racing so much. Couldn't afford the prices to take a family to Topeka then. Still watch on tv from time to time.
Who used to drive the "Showtime" car?
PING...
I have already pinged Norm.
The Silver Showtime Pontiac?
Bob Jarret bought it in '87 and took it across the pond. Gary Page drove it as well as Tom Hoover (Tom is who Jarret bought it from.)
Then there is the Purple Power Corvette:
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