how did we let things get this way - Page 5

Autumn Daze · 08-11-2010, 03:02 PM

Talk about a trip down memory lane. Bill, I seem to remember a Strick's Automotive as a race team in the late 60's or early 70's as a very competetive team either in Super Stock or early funny cars. Help me out here..Here's a great link to my old racing days. There are some great photos for you racing guy's.www.doverdragstrip.com

Big D · 08-11-2010, 03:12 PM

Francis - As I pointed out in a prior post, no one really knows the original derivation of "the Whole Nine Yards". We do know though that a belt of .50 MG ammunition is not 9 yards long. Not that Wikipedia is the ultimate resource, but they point out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_nine_yards) that the phrase didn't become popular until the 50's - after WW II.

Dean Romig · 08-11-2010, 03:13 PM

Look up Don Roberts on any drag racing website and you'll find pictures my old friend Don in various rails and funny cars up and down the East Coast. He broke many records 'in the day' one of which was 175 mph in the 1/8 mile at Norwood Ma. back in the 70's. His racing career (and it was a colorful one) ended when he had a horrific crash and as a result, lost a leg. Look up "famous quotes of drag racers" and you'll find Don's quote made sometime after that crash where he states "After the third flip I lost control."
He and I worked at the same Shell station in the mid-sixties - I had a '65 GTO and he had a 305 Honda Scrambler. We would swap vehicles often... Kathy rode with me on/in both - Great days those were.

Autumn Daze · 08-11-2010, 04:59 PM

Dean, You're not gonna believe this...but my first job was in a Shell station!...in the 60's. They were stock car guy's.

TARNATION !!! · 08-11-2010, 07:26 PM

Originally posted by Dean Romig: ... I had a '65 GTO ...

Dean Romig · 08-11-2010, 10:51 PM

I loved that car Jack! What a muscle car! I should have died in that car several times.... the stories I could tell

Autumn Daze · 08-11-2010, 11:11 PM

You got that right Dean..and I,m sure us "Ol" hot rodders have a few stories of our own to tell..I know I do. Not to worry though remember "only the good die young" and you're way to old to worry about that now....

George Lander · 08-11-2010, 11:50 PM

Does anyone here remember seeing the Art Afrons & his brothers brothers and their "Green Monster" drag cars?

George

Dean Romig · 08-12-2010, 05:51 AM

Didn't Art build one of the first jet-powered dragsters?

ch · 08-12-2010, 07:21 AM

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