Folks Of Interest My Dad turns 87 today old Hot Rodder and Racer

People say our hobby is graying out...when you see how we are so devoted how could it!
God bless you and Father.

 

Yes Hope to see you soon Mike

 

missed this when orginally posted. Happy Birthday to your Dad!

 

Not only did he have an injected Ardun, he also had an injected 348/409. Neat.

 

Happy 87th birthday and I wish You a lot more of them!!!

 

Happy Birthday !!!!

 

Yep!..... 87 more....

 

Looks like a helluva run, & still runnin'! Belated Happy Birthday to your Pops!
Interesting Garlits connection on the rail, what's the scoop?

 

Wow ! Some real history in your family.

 

Obviously not Don Dad’s partner in this car was Wayne, seems like he said they were cousins or some distant relationship but no real connection there.

 

It was an Algon injected 409 (I think probably a bit more cubes than that) on 80%. It ran a best of 7.40 @ 198

 

Just noticed this thread on my profile while I was looking for something else. I just wanted to thank everyone for their birthday wishes and kind words for him last year.
Dad passed in mid January of 2021 just 3 months short of his 88th Birthday. Even with the Covid restrictions his funeral was pretty large. The police Dept. and many of the local firefighters did walkthroughs at his visitation. There were many of his old racer and car club Buddies there and we are still getting cards and stuff from people. Someone just found and posted a cool old picture of him receiving some kind of award from the an auto racing sanctioning banquet. Johnny Shippman longtime Flagman from USAC and the Indianapolis 500 was handing the award to Dad. We are just starting to go through his things. We have decided to try to keep all the cars and bigger things in the family and we will probably still try to re create the “Scotty’s T Roadster” with the original Ardun from it he had kept for all these years.

 

Sorry for your loss of your dad. My best wishes to you and yours.

 

Mike very sorry to hear your Dads passing and our prayers .

 

Sorry for your Loss, our prayers are with you.

 

Sorry for the loss of your dad. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.