Twisted, I was hoping you were watching and copying. A lot of this stuff will be valuable to our project. Also, I've found a way to take the yellow out of the news clippings. Thanks for the postings, Allstar.
I have exchanged e-mails with Bill Desmond and he is still in Alabama and still doing some stuff with his marketing of AMSOIL I think. I use to shoot for John Quinn and write some also. I would write the articles on GA International each Sunday for three different papers and mail them and film out Sunday night at the P.O. annex. I would try to write each a little different so it wouldn't look the same if someone got two of the papers. Who was the manager of IRP back in that time period? I remember him from get to gathers at Nashville and the Promoters Workshop at Daytona.
Should have mentioned that I just talked to Gerald Dixon by phone last Saturday. He's still running his speed shop in Sellersburg. And I got a Happy Birthday message from Desmond today. You're probably thinking of Bob Daniels. He was the GM at IRP from the time NHRA purchased the property in 1979 until 1991. I worked for him there from 1985 until he retired, and I was there through the 2000 season.
John, Yeah those pix are all from a scrapbook that I loaned to Allstar so I have the originals of that stuff, That anti-yellowing device you have will certainly come in handy.
The 88 is Bill Kyser, he also had a car with a corvette body that he ran around this time. I believe that the other car may be Buford Perry's #10.
Bill Kyser? What a memory. One night he got hit in the rear end in the Figure 8, knocked around, and started an end-for-end flip right at me. Last thing I saw before I turned tail was the top of his car headed downward toward my spot. Next thing I saw was Steve Stubbs, who was standing right beside me, falling on his face as he tried to run. I yelled, "You're on your own!" and headed for the fence. Stubbs tore the knees out of a brand new pair of double-knit slacks crawling out of the way.
I think you are right about the #88 being Bill Kyser. The car was green and owned by Mike Pflanz who owned Poor Boys auto parts on Bluelick rd. Mike went to a fiberglass body manufacturer,A-1 fiberglass bodies I think, and bought eight or ten bodies to resell. He put a Cadillac body on it first then the corvette and then the Cutlass. I ended up with the Cadillac and part of the Cutlass body. I ran the Cadillac at the Drome and Charlestown and then dirt at Central Park at Beaver Dam. I then used parts of the Cutlass to rebody the car and ran it at Central Park and Morgantown. I don't think Mikes adventure went too well. He finally sold all of the bodies I think but didn't make much money. It is a shame because he was trying to get race parts for this area and nobody would buy race stuff. Racers couldn't understand most of the time it was actually cheaper to buy the race parts than to get junkyard parts and then try to modify them to compete with the good stuff. The postings I put up lately are TwistedVideos. I thought he was too busy to post them and a lot of racers I talked too wanted to see them. Thanks to to TwistedVideo.
Thank YOU Allstar for posting them, any help I can get is always appreciated. My computer went out this week on top of everything else, was lucky enough to borrow one to stay on top of things. I've got 4 more racing nights left at the Sportsdrome. Sept 26th 42 annual Midwestern F8(rain date Sun Sept 27th). 3 divisions of F8-Outlaws(mostly from Indpls Speedrome), Extreme & Dromer & 3 oval divisions(7 features). Allstar's got some great stories about the first couple MW championships that he ran in from the late 60's. Oct 3rd dromer oval/8 & FWD's, 10/9 Chuck Winders Memorial 100 & World 300 Qual races, Oct 10th World 300-300 lap F8. Should have some free time after this...well at least 'til xmas season at UPS.
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