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Soon all those that were there will be gone and only a few of us will remember. Sad
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/omaha/name/charles-grimsley-obituary?pid=198515243
Sad to say Chuck Grimsley, Ted’s racing partner has passed away.
AWB by Ted DeTar
Homebuilt AWB Mopar by Ted DeTar, that car was for his racing partner in 66.
Engine By Ted DeTar
Thats Gary Smith straightening out the chute.
never race with a hood on it
Owners of Green Valley Raceway.
My dad's car is not a Gasser, it's a early Altered Wheel Base Funny Car. A straight axle don't make it a Gasser, just like a straight axle don't...
There is more stories of Ted DeTar the Kansas Badman on his facebook page.
Have pic's of my dad doing the conversation.
Homebuilt by my dad!!
Does that look like a Playboy Model??? Not!!!
Don Brach's Ford couldn't fall out of a tree fast enough. He lost interest and sold it.
Why would anybody restore it as a 11 second turd? It was way cooler as a AWB Funny Car!!
Aunt Ruth died of rabbit fever at the age of 5, she was in-between Ted and Irene. So Ted had 3 brothers and 2 sisters.
Don't forget about uncle Eldon, he looked a lot like dad!!!
It was the most I could do since he died 50 years ago..
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Patty, didn't know your dad personally, but my dad did. He raced Ted DeTar quite a bit in the beginning, have some on tape of the Chevelle when...
Gold Dust you still on??
The 2% car turned AWB, you ought to see what Ted did to the 64 Super Stock car...
Its a 68 Torino that Ted and Garlan Smith made a copy of a logghe chassis and the fiberglass body went on. Due to divorce, the car was sold to...
That was Ted's last ride he had in Wichita, sponsored by the Wichita Coca-Cola bottling company. Tommy Warhurst and his brother owned the car, Ted...
That's not Janie according to Walt Ramsden, the car your dad is setting the floats for.
The www.kansasbadman.com don't work anymore here's another
[ATTACH] We spent many hours here fighting over who was going to get a soda pop!!!
Im on facebook
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