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Wow, Union Grove.........I watched 4 wide racing there in probably 1964....Drank "Near Beer" and watched Arnie Beswick...and a ton of altered wheel base cars. Great memories

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1966 Island Dragway. and many others including Indy......

I have raced just about every sportsman category.....either as the driver or as a wrench......

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1968 kettlersville dragstrip in ohio 1957 chevy

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First time racing was at Omaha Flightland Dragstrip in 1963, I was already 24 years old, and I have been hooked on it ever since. Now days the Senior Citizens Center wants me to join, I told them that's for old folks, I am only 74, besides I said, that I didn't have the time, cause I got to run back, and forth, from Nebraska, to Indiana to help my son, Todd with his race car. Oh it's been a wonderful 50 years, with the same wife, and a whole bunch of cars! Eddie Rezac

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1964, Arlington WA. Quit at the end of the 1970 season, somehow got back into it in 94. Neet cars back then, straight 8 Buicks, Hudson Hornets, early V8 Oldsmobiles, D dragsters.

Jim Mantle 6632 V/SA

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Eddie, my first trip to Flightland, I raced Judy Lilly when when she had the 57 wagon. Oh....she beat me. Later raced her Hemi Cuda (as did you)....way too many times. I talked with Judy a couple of years ago in Denver and told her that was probably the first race she would not beat me....LOL she wasn't racing and I was.

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Another name for the list....Dick Mierhenry.....Been racing way too long....LOL

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I know that the East Coast guys haven't "chimed in" about this......I was a midwesterner living the "California dreaming" before the Draft. It was all about fast cars and fast women....I would like to hear about the East Coast racers in the 60's... hints: tow bars, 7 inch slicks, flag drop....

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1st win at drag racing 1957 Easy Street DragStrip Benson NC 1949 Ford ,two Stromberg 97.s Offy Heads,3 speed overdrive
? Gas Class 74 MPH no et.s at that time.

1st Stock Eliminator Win 1960 with 335Hp tri powered 348 4 speed at BroadSlab,Benson NC, was thankful that Bobby Warren was not there.

I did not quit when I lost to Bobby Warren or Haywood Register, David Surles, David Ward, Sonny Robbins,James Bullock, Odell Lee, Ronnie Yopp, George Duff,Troy Humpries,JA Bray, James Shelton,Jimmy Morton, The Pickle Man,Bobby Smith, Harold Denton, Harold Stewart, Bobby Brown,Charlie Taylor, Bobby Warren (oh, I already said Bobby Warren)Doc Bilbrey, Bobby Smith, Jerry Ball, Jack Strickland,Ed McLawhorn, Jim Reynolds, Ronnie Sox,Herb Hickman,Billy Merritt,Charlie Blalock, Bobby Warren (excuse me, I already said Bobby Warren) etc, you get the idea?..........Why should I quit now????

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Got a killer scar on my arm from catching a rasp while shaving a 7" slick in the staginglanes at Englishtown!