Folks Of Interest RIP ... Woody Gilmore

Garwood "Woody" Gilmore
February 2, 1933 - July 3, 2020
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Another great one has left us. RIP Woody

 

Renown chassis builder, RIP. Our time on this earth is getting shorter not longer, think about it.

Pat

 

I met Woody about 18 years ago at Lyle Azevedo's shop in northern California. when Woody was sued after someone crashed a dragster that he had built, they had an auction for all of Woody's equipment. Lyle bought it all. While Lyle was showing me all the equipment, in walks Woody. He was doing work out of Lyle's shop. It was a happy chance meeting with 2 important people. Lyle came back east to Run his funny car at a big Englishtown drag race, and won the race. Good for him, and Woody, too.

 

Sincere sympathy goes out to his Family, friends and fans - he really did so much for so many

 

R.I.P.

 

Condolences to the Gilmore Family and Friends on the passing of Woody...He certainly was an integral part of the Framework of the Go Fast Industry...Artist in Metal I often refer to them as...Thanks for sharing this loss to the Community @HEMI32...

Regards,
Stogy

 

Sandoval-Prieto-Madden "The Red Tomato" driven by Bobby Tapia.
This was the 2nd chassis Woody worked on before opening Race Car Engineering
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Paul Sutherland's Charger # 1 @ Pomona
one of the first four cars out of RCE



Tom McCuen @ Pomona
early Woody chassis, 3rd or 4th made



Lechein & Drake near lane
6th chassis out of Woody's
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Adams Bros.-Rasmussen-Stewart
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Adams- Warye-Mulligan
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RIP

 

John Bateman's Stripped Bitch
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Brissette & Alexander


Brissette & Sutherland
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Gary Gabliech


Gary Gabliech - The Purple Gang
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Frantic Four


Keystone Kustom Wheels



Warren-Coburn-Miller
Ridge Route Terrors


Powers & Riley​

 

Bev's Steak House



Ron's Auto


Glenn & Schultz


Don Prudhomme
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Alan Bockla


Billy Scott


Tommy "Watchdog" Allen
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Dunn & Reath

 

Kenz & Leslie



Ward & Warye



Kenny Bernstein​

 

Frank Cannon



Dan Rightsell



Jerry Ruth



John Batto



Ron Goodsell



Trotter & Hightower
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Aragoni & Greggs AA/GD



Freeman & Son Jr. Fueler



Ige & Sassa Jr. Fueler
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Man, I'm truly saddened to here this. Condolences to his family and friends. :-(

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The Lou Baney's "Yeakel Plymouth Special" AA/FD was built in November of 1964 by Woody Gilmore, Paul Sutherland & Pete Ogden (Race Car Engineering). This was only the 10th car out of Woody's shop and has the first type of front axle mountings Woody used. The body was the work of Doug Kruse. The 392 Hemi's were built by John Garrison and tuned by Vince Rossi. The car was (mostly) driven by Tom "the Mongoo$e" McCuen.

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Lorry Azevedo, Hatt Racing?

RIP Woody

 

Larry Huff's Soapy Sales AA/FD. RCE 1969.

 

Woody Gilmore and Mike Kuhle both gone at almost the same time....The generation is changing as it always does...